Reply #49: No. And the word is satirical. Satyrical would mean something else entirely.

[RufusTFirefly]

I'm suggesting that satirists could be swept up in the same arguably justifiable hysteria to crack down on people who go beyond some ill-defined threshold. If you operate with a "I know it when I see it" standard, you run the risk of silencing legitimate, albeit offensive speech. The purpose of the First Amendment, after all, is to protect the stuff we don't approve of. It's easy to protect the stuff we do approve of.

Jeez Louise. Maybe I'm losing my touch, but obtuseness seems to be on the rise here.