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skip fox

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3. WARNING: CAPTIONing at DU has traditionally been a creative sport,

Reply to heaven05 (Reply #2)

Sat Jun 18, 2016, 09:15 AM

Jun 2016

but for satiric purposes we often try to channel our subject's essential self, or have him say what he would like to say, if he thought he could get away with it, etc.

So the irony/hypocrisy you spotted was "planted" as was the entire..

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