Sometimes when it comes to satire, it's easy to get carried away. You take an idea, and you talk about it by using a parallel idea and playing on their similarities or differences. For example, I felt it was funny yesterday to take a fictional mugging by a fictional rightwing nut job carried out on a host of a fictional radio network. I attempted to show how the Left coddles criminals and makes them into victims; often times completely ignoring the value of putting the criminal in jail to face punishment. This was lost on some of you. If you did not get it, I'd like to extend the following token of apology.

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Before all of you go crazy, let me once again explain my thinking.

Many Americans feel that a noose represents some sort of direct threat. This is why IMAO exists - to enlighten. A noose means no such thing. For example, a professor at Columbia college found a noose on her office door.

Why do people look at good, quality art and assume the worst? That is always happening. For example, this one art student was arrested at Logan International Airport. Her crime? She was wearing a fake bomb T-shirt which featured a circuit board of some kind and a viisible battery with wires.

Why would somebody be threated by THAT? I don't know what's wrong with people when the wholesome expression of speech is confused with some sort of threat of bodily harm. Of course liberals see this whenever they look at things like confederate flags, nooses, or Fox News.

I think the same is probably happening at Columbia. A simple statement gone wrong. Although you never know with college professors. Remember that time that professor at Claremont College vandalized her own car with anti-Semitic messages? Then she blamed others and all sort of candle-light vigils followed? That was funny. (I guess you had to be there.) For a while, they thought about charging her with a hate-crime. Afterwards, they realized that not only is self-hate not a crime, but for liberal professors it's a work prerequisite.

Columbia does indeed have full video of the person who placed said noose on the professor's door. They have contacted the police and told them in no uncertain terms, "You can't have the video." Thankfully, the police were able to persuade the college to share the information - with a subpoena.

Anway, I apologize if at any point in my writing some people may have been offended. Sometimes in art, as in free speech, little things can be misunderstood.

Thank you for your understanding.

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