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So I was linked to a blog today. The guy was bitching about an article he read. The article took a view pro-choice viewpoint and told the story of a woman who chose to have an abortion.

He lit into the article. He blasted it as stupid and moronic. He attacked its views and position. He went on and on with commentary similar to this:

Miss Weber, you have killed your child, which you admit is a baby/human being, intentionally. That does make you an admitted murderer. I'm not going to "condemn you to hell", I'm going to pray for your forgiveness and for the suffering which you will endure when you realize what you have done. Every baby you see from that moment on is going to wake you up to the realization that you killed your child.

The problem? Well, the article was from the Onion. And he didn’t realize that it was satire. It’s gotta sting, right? Yeah, I’ve been there before. Not the Onion (duh), but similar satire has nailed me before I realized it for what it was.

The problem was that his readers knew it for what it was and laughed at him for it. They made fun of him. So he tried to play it off. He said that his blog was just a joke about the satire and all his readers fell for it. Read that quote again and tell me how likely you think that is?

So, days have passed, and he’s still defending himself. Still acting like it was all a huge joke that only he gets.

All he had to do was go “DOH. I got punk’d” and all would have been good. A merry joke had by all, a little egg on his face. But no. He’s just not that smart. As one poster said, it’s like tripping and trying to play it off like you suddenly decided to jog. It just doesn’t work.

The moral of the story? When you fuck up, it’s better to smile and laugh with the group than to try to play it off like you didn’t fuck anything up.