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Of course, Woody Allen captured this idea perfectly in Bananas , in the scene where he buys a pile of intellectual journals, and tries to slip a copy of a pornographic magazine in with them, only to have the shop owner holler, "Hey Harry, how much for a copy of Orgasm ?" Later, Allen sits on the subway, gazing at the offending item, which he has neatly tucked into the latest edition of Commentary , with an article by Irving Kristol on the cover (another favorite Woody Allen line, of course, comes in Annie Hall , when he quips that Dissent and Commentary have merged to form a new magazine called Dysentery-- I was probably one of the few 11-year-olds to laugh at that one).
The mirror image consideration, however, is that it is unappetizing to give the offending remark wider circulation--especially when it is insulting to a person of tender years.
Dissociation with the producer of the offending temptation--a $400 jacket, say--becomes a coping mechanism, and rumor and conspiracy theories are only a step away.
But if you simply want to tell us how wrong we are about something, you can skip all that and post a message from the offending page itself.
Indeed, it ignores the essence of John's charge (captured in the succeeding scene of the offending ad, which showed House Democratic Leader Dick Gephardt, Sen.