Comments on: What Does Schadenfreude Mean? Ask Max Mosley. He Speaks German. http://www.mrpikes.com/blog/what-does-schadenfreude-mean-ask-max-mosley-he-speaks-german Fear It. Mon, 30 May 2011 14:03:52 -0400 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: MrPikes http://www.mrpikes.com/blog/what-does-schadenfreude-mean-ask-max-mosley-he-speaks-german/comment-page-1#comment-74 MrPikes Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:44:37 +0000 http://www.mrpikes.com/blog/?p=105#comment-74 Mainstream news sites are being very careful at present to use terms like "allege" and "claim" with regard to the veracity of the News of the World article, but apparently NotW has broken scandals like this one before. I agree that the details have an air of unreality about them, like something from a bad script. If the allegations prove true, feel free to mock mightily, my friend. The problem with scandals like this, however, is that they defy caricature. I mean, how could even The Onion make this more ridiculous? Mainstream news sites are being very careful at present to use terms like “allege” and “claim” with regard to the veracity of the News of the World article, but apparently NotW has broken scandals like this one before.

I agree that the details have an air of unreality about them, like something from a bad script.

If the allegations prove true, feel free to mock mightily, my friend. The problem with scandals like this, however, is that they defy caricature. I mean, how could even The Onion make this more ridiculous?

]]> By: Gokmop http://www.mrpikes.com/blog/what-does-schadenfreude-mean-ask-max-mosley-he-speaks-german/comment-page-1#comment-73 Gokmop Mon, 31 Mar 2008 08:58:22 +0000 http://www.mrpikes.com/blog/?p=105#comment-73 Is this for real? Is this publication the equivalent of the National Enquirer, or is this actually true? On the face of it, the way the article is done and the actual allegations are almost too over the top to be taken seriously. Most news organizations wouldn't have felt the need to publish the photos, complete with black bar, they would have thought it enough just to describe it in full salacious detail. Wow. Just, wow. I mean, I'm with you on not drumming the guy out of his job for his personal "extracurriculars", but please, please, please don't ask me not to mock him. Opportunities like this only come once in a generation. Is this for real? Is this publication the equivalent of the National Enquirer, or is this actually true?

On the face of it, the way the article is done and the actual allegations are almost too over the top to be taken seriously. Most news organizations wouldn’t have felt the need to publish the photos, complete with black bar, they would have thought it enough just to describe it in full salacious detail.

Wow. Just, wow.

I mean, I’m with you on not drumming the guy out of his job for his personal “extracurriculars”, but please, please, please don’t ask me not to mock him. Opportunities like this only come once in a generation.

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