“William Black, Joke Line & all those other “nuanced print journalists” totally missed the fact that the President was making a joke. After Stewart reacted to the “heckuva job” line, President Obama said, “Pun intended.” That is, Obama was distancing himself from Summers. He was giving Summers a “Brownie point,” as it were. Since “heckuva job” has come to mean “incompetent” or “I wished I’d fired him sooner,” that’s what the President was saying. But the sober-sided, harrumphing pundits just plain didn’t get it. As Kearney says, “Writers often aren’t very thoughtful at all.” And they sure don’t have senses of humor.”
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