the david catchment shell david dot com we did this segment on the show about of
mit romney and the donor you remember lou is not being able to identify
chocolate doughnut and i made a uh... comment during that segment
it was all there was a joke and i said maybe running just never eat donuts
maybe he's not around doughnuts
so maybe it would be like a if you're overweight person and you see an unusual
vegetable on the table or something like that maybe you can identify that that's
kind of paraphrasing what i said i use the the word overweight
and i'd new
but i was going to get
one the email about that i'd assume it would only be one but that they would
definitely be that one
and i was surprised he didn't get that
but last night i did
so last night i got an email from sabina saying i stumbled upon your show on free
speech t_v_ today
when discussing the mit romney clip
uh... you made a comment that i felt was important he said something like it's
almost like an overweight person not knowing when a particular vegetable is
called
as you know many overweight people eat balanced diets but still struggle with
your weight your comment in reflect the tolerance in intelligence i'm used to
seeing on free speech t_v_ hopefully just got carried away in the moment and
comments such as the one above but overweight people are not the norm on
your shelf
so you know i'm sensitive to the plate of
all people
uh... different types of problems and struggles that people have
but at a certain point is it possible
to do satire and to joke about things
without the risk of and realistically when your body in schism a certain size
offending at least
and as you know if i've i could have used the word that i could have used a
different word i use the term overweight
so it's not like i was even going at and digging at this idea of all up
uh... a despicable fat person right and let's be honest
there's plenty of rich people like mit romney who can identify done it
and there's plenty of overweight people who can identify any broad variety of
vegetables
but you do believe that my comment was offensive and how far could do we really
take this i mean is it not ok to joke about
anything we're somebody might be offended
you know we week don't classify ourselves as a as a comedic cheryl and i
would say that well if you look at what age were listed as satire
okay and you know the wikipedia as we know is always right
alright well
i think in that in the world comedy everything is is fair game boca
uh...
about the same time we do do a lot of fun statements here and i i i think
we'll make a have a lot of insulting people but let's be honest here almost
everything we say
comedic or not is insulting to someone writer uh...
i think people just have to work things go
is that we think that it's not one we talked last week about political
correctness
right and about his political correctness real or is it your either
being nicer you're not regardless of what you say
i don't think i was not being nights i was simply making making a joke is just
a just a comparison what your thought on it but i do i all anybody an apology for
that comment
well financial instinct is that you don't
and that we said was perfectly fine you were just joking at the same time i'm
sure we could come up with a similar type of comment about another group
that we would all say owner now don't go there and we'll look through that was
actually come up with that because let's say in that same conversation
uh... it's like uh...
if except that one is saying you know it but never on the heels of people and so
it it doesn't add up i want
it be like a jewish person not knowing what a shovel is playing into the idea
that of course jews like myself
don't do physical labor we don't know how to work with their hands that had
the thing
uh... is that ok because i'm doing well i think that's an exception because
self-deprecating humor is a very controlling its realization if i was in
jewish then would that be ok ingest
i mean it depends it depends on who's saying in the context certainly
we can think of a situation where it wouldn't go down so well with us
absolute your intentions to play a role and i think were clearly not trying to
insult anyone
on the show if you want to share with them to you will be insulted by
something we said
uh... popular i mean i assume it doesn't happen all the time and that's why you
want to share would analyze how do you think it will have to let things go
let's go through today's segments right and i know i usually don't list them out
of time but let's just go through it
the next thing i want to talk about is this weird did report on what was
reported as a mushroom on chinese news it was actually a sex toy
somebody might see that clip and think were somehow making fun of chinese
people of course it's not about that at all uh... next we're going to talk about
what else can could be making fun of today we're going to talk about
somebody beating up
the priest that allegedly raped then
thirty years prior
somebody could see that and maybe later if we take alight harder approach think
were making fun of people who
have been molested or they might think were making fun of religion because
there's a priest involved
uh... you know i don't know i i think that
with went by i think
that the key really has to be someone's intention and this idea of political
correctness being replaced with are your intentions to be nice
or into your intentions to make someone feel that we have to be able to use our
judgment at some point absolutely i think there's something else here to
sort of a political correctness any
you could have said in this segment has said until you know unhealthy people
people who eat on health willie
of probably wouldn't recognize annette plan
or something like that sure
but at the same time if you did that it wouldn't have the same punch
exactly like there's there's a point to saying you know maybe it's okay to say
that a lot of people in this country eat unhelpful e a lot of people are fat not
because the correctly and they have a genetic condition but because they have
a horrible lifestyle
i mean shouldn't it be okay to say that into joke about it i'd think it should
to a certain extent
you have to be able to get your point across