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Actor with Downs burns Palin. NYTimes successfully edits out joke.

"My mother did not carry me around under her arm like a loaf of French bread the way former Governor Palin carries her son Trig around looking for sympathy and votes."

-Andrea Fay Friedman, the actor who played the character with Downs in recent Family Guy episode responds to Palin criticism. You can read most of the interview here. 

While they edited out the "show" part, the Times certainly did "tell." Friedman:
I guess former Governor Palin does not have a sense of humor. I thought the line “I am the daughter of the former governor of Alaska” was very funny. I think the word is “sarcasm.” In my family we think laughing is good. My parents raised me to have a sense of humor and to live a normal life.

Makes me wonder what other great bits they've edited out. Would love to read a Remainder Blog with them.

This is How the Machine Works

The basic idea is to take a thesis that’s ambiguous between the trivially true (some women would do well to be somewhat less picky about the men they date) to the sweeping and offensive (feminists are blinding you ladies to the fact that you need to marry the first halfway decent man you can find before your ovaries shrivel!!!!) precisely because pushing the envelop beyond what’s defensible will create more “buzz.”


-Matthew Yglesias on Lori Gottlieb's ridiculous (and debunked) book Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr Good Enough based on an earlier Atlantic article by Gottlieb.

He could have been talking about the entry of Palin into our politics as well.