Apologies to reader James Taggart

Yesterday, Mr. Taggert posted a comment on our post, New Yorker White-Cellar Staff Calls for Extirpation of Israel that seemed to side with the New Yorker’s anti-Semites, and several of us, including me, jumped all over him.

I was struck by a horrible thought this morning that his comment was satirical, and not intended to be interpreted literally, and sure enough, a review of his previous comments shows that we attackers had missed the sarcasm.

So I deeply apologize, Mr. Taggert. In my defense, and as the Babylon Bee has discovered, it’s hard these days to distinguish between satire and the real thing because, no matter how far one stretches for the absurd, someone on the left has already gone there, and said the same thing or done the same thing — or it will the next day.