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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It was a hilarious joke that the person retweeted. You can either laugh or ignore it. Plain and simple. He wasn’t even tweeting and or doing so in his role as an employee. He was wrong to delete it and to be suspended by the WaPo is ridiculous.

She deserves to be fired for her continued public rant.

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Why was the joke hilarious?[/quote]

Because the line from the comedian made me laugh out loud.  On this very group in a discussion about a certain movie featuring Tom Cruise, a comment was made “because the men were hot.”  One could call that a sexist line.

So yes I found the retweeted line laugh out loud funny. Not sexist at all just a simple observation or anecdote calling out his generalized experience. That’s what comedians do. They exaggerate their own experiences.

You may not find that joke funny, yet you, the royal you, has no problem finding the men in Top Gun Maverick hot.[/quote]
Can you try again without any tangents about Tom Cruise and hot men? What exactly was funny about thus joke (and note that no comedians were involved)?[/quote]

If you don't get it, you don't get it.[/quote]

You have to be a misogynist to find Wiegel’s joke funny.  [/quote]

"Humor is an inversion of audience expectation and an invitation to the audience to set the inversion straight."

https://www.jstor.org/stable/23740634[/quote]

“Every girl is bi. You just have to figure out if it’s polar or sexual.”  Dave Wiegel, Washington Post national political reporter.  Yes, this is hilarious (only if you're a sexist pig).

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I believe it was a retweet. He didn't claim authorship. But, hey, continue to be fact impervious.[/quote]

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