{"id":55044,"date":"2014-03-29T08:17:35","date_gmt":"2014-03-29T06:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=55044"},"modified":"2014-03-29T08:17:35","modified_gmt":"2014-03-29T06:17:35","slug":"satirical-tweet-draws-twitter-rage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/55044\/satirical-tweet-draws-twitter-rage\/","title":{"rendered":"Satirical tweet draws Twitter rage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes satire isn’t made for Twitter’s 140-character world.<\/p>\n

Comedy Central deleted a message Thursday from its Twitter feed for the late-night satirical “Colbert Report” showing a still from Wednesday night’s show where Stephen Colbert joked about starting a “Ching-Chong Ding-Dong Foundation for Sensitivity to Orientals or Whatever.”<\/p>\n

The joke was part of a skit in which Stephen Colbert, whose performs as a conservative TV host, talked about the Washington Redskins’ owner buying things for Native Americans upset with the team’s name.<\/p>\n

A #CancelColbert hashtag then appeared on Twitter, igniting a debate over what is funny and what is offensive.<\/p>\n

Comedy Central deleted the tweet and made clear the feed was not controlled by the show. On his personal Twitter feed, Colbert said of #CancelColbert that “I share your rage.”<\/p>\n

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Colbert report tweet<\/p><\/div>\n

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Sometimes satire isn’t made for Twitter’s 140-character world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":43268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,93],"class_list":["post-55044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-active","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55049,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55044\/revisions\/55049"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}