Postal Service goes ballistic
Posted on December 11, 2003
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Unable to grasp the fineries of satire and parody, the US Postal Service is up in arms and looking to mobilize it’s workers en masses over a Mad TV skit:
The Postal Service said Wednesday it is calling on its 750,000 employees to contact Sandy Grushow, chairman of Fox Entertainment Group to protest the sketch on Saturday’s episode of “Mad TV.” It is asking millions more employees of its private-sector partners to protest, too.
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“It’s ugly. It’s untrue. It’s an insult to every man and woman in the Postal Service,” he said.
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Fox spokesman Joe Earley said he hadn’t seen the Postal Service response, but called Mad TV “a satire and an equal opportunity offender…”
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“It’s gonna be just like fuckin’ ‘Nam man! Yeah!” said Lloyd Beufford, a postal carrier from Tempe, Arizona.*
Which has me wondering: is it ok to shoot the messenger if he’s first shooting at you?
(* I made that part up.)
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