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This is just fun. Over on MSNBC, Keith Olbermann has a blog entry about the ever-literate responses he’s been getting in response to their coverage of the Spongebob/Dobson teapot’s tempest.
The best:
“…not a misspelling but a Freudian slip of biblical proportions. A correspondent, unhappy that I did not simply agree with her fire-and-brimstone forecast for me, wrote “I showed respect even though I disagreed with you and yet you have the audacity to call me intelligent.”
Well, you have me there, Ma’am. My mistake.”
And:
“Still, if there was one disturbing element, it was the number of emails– maybe 20 percent–which invoked Dan Rather and “what we did to him.” There is evidently a mass misunderstanding of the history of Rather’s retirement from the CBS Evening News. He was not hit by vengeful lightning, although don’t go telling that to the religious right. That his retirement was being planned last summer is an irrelevancy to them.
Even in this, though, one emailer provided mirth. “We got Tom Brokaw at ABC,” he warned, “and we can get you.”
I’ll have to drop Tom a note.”
