The Instapundit links to another twit. The best line here is the addendum:
"Maybe she was aware of the swiftian connotations of making a modest proposal, but it sure doesn’t seem like it"
Actually, it seems like she did, but thanks for playing. And it is Burk, not Burke.
Update: Apparently terrorists have attacked our water supply and infected select portions of the population with the idiot disease. I thought it was pretty weak on Crossfire, but the fact that it continues amazes me.
Sounds pretty creepy to me. In the Corner post linked above, Kathryn Jean Lopez says that this is exaggeration for effect. Perhaps. But I can only imagine the response in, say, Ms. if some conservative male engaged in similar exaggeration where women’s reproductive rights were concerned.
Actually, the whole point of the article appears to be a critique of conservative arguments restricting female reproductive freedom. The point is that often conservative magazines say very similar things about women’s fertility. The literary device of satire is used to point out how ridiculous such claims would be were the situation reversed. Who let’s that man loose on a college campus?
Satire (from Dictionary.com): Irony, sarcasm, or caustic wit used to attack or expose folly, vice, or stupidity.