So there's an opinion columnist for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's website who's facing some harsh criticism over a piece she wrote recently comparing Sarah Palin to a porn star and implying that Republican men are sexually inadequate.
The backlash, as it turns out, didn't start until the professional patriots over at Fox News did a predictably indignant story on the column -- basically drawing the attention of every redneck in the contiguous 48 to something he otherwise never would've seen, since the American readership of the CBC's site is basically nil.
And how is the writer in question, Heather Mallick, responding to NASCAR America's sudden contrived outrage?
Brilliantly.
“My problem is that I have to write with a certain kind of reader in mind, and that person is always going to be my vision of an intelligent Canadian. I don’t write for Fox viewers,” she said in an interview.
In other words, it was a joke that wasn't meant for you -- so piss off.
And before the Fox Fans dare to argue that the audience a comment is aimed at doesn't matter -- that offensive is offensive -- somebody needs to remind them of that idiot John Gibson's crack about Heath Ledger's death back in January.
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