Comedian’s gag at Trump rally again showed that rendering an idea through a joke does not automatically inoculate the teller from responsibility for implied beliefs
‘It’s a joke, you c**t’: Tony Hinchcliffe , Bernard Manning and the problem with trying to hide behind humour
Anyway, you know what this is about. Few would have guessed that, in the final week of the US presidential-election campaign, one Tony Hinchcliffe, a modestly successful Ohioan comic, would challenge to be the main character. Could he end up doing todid to Hillary Clinton in 2016? at Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally that ended by comparing Puerto Rico to a “floating island of garbage”. Not surprisingly, the commentariat went bananas.
It shouldn’t need to be explained that rendering an idea through a gag does not automatically inoculate the teller from any responsibility for implied beliefs. “It’s a joke” does count as reasonable defence when the teller has been employing sarcasm, but a growing confusion about the meaning of that term should put the listener on alert. Earlier in this apparently endless campaign,. He wasn’t having it.
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