The Story So Far:
1. The conservative juggernaut Young America’s Foundation (YAF, successor to Young Americans for Freedom) schedules an event called “Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week” at Washington, DC’s George Washington University (GWU).
2. Pranksters post outrageous flyers (“Hate Moslems? So Do We!”), heavy-handed parodies that purport to promote the YAF event and point to the actual event website which, frankly, looks as goofy as the mock posters.
3. Moslem groups at GWU, University officials, and YAF all respond with the punch line to a well-known light bulb joke: ”That’s not funny.”
4. The press refuses to see the admittedly clumsy humor for other reasons: “campus hate speech” – I mean “Campus Hate Speech” — is news; campus pranks aren’t, unless they involve a cow.
