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Monday, July 1, 2013

Editorial: Silly is as silly does

So for the unnamed editor the silly story of a teevee personality getting caught saying the N word is a "saga"?

After building up this person in repeated royal terms, he attempts some Rodney King language at the end, in which he equates racist hate speech with schoolyard taunts.

The inadvertent self-satire here is inescapable.

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