We currently live in a culture where sitcoms that air during what was once respected as the family hour, openly joke about anal sex. And this is something the Left will defend to the death. But when Cinnabon dares to tweet out a harmless joke Bob Hope would have been comfortable telling during the Colgate Comedy Hour in 1951, the Neo-Puritans haul out the torches and pitchforks.
“RIP Carrie Fisher, you’ll always have the best buns in the galaxy,” the tweet read. Immediately afterwards, many of the very same people who want public schools to teach your first-grader about homosexuality and condoms, went to work:
Slate: “Twenty-Four Questions Raised By Cinnabon’s Regrettable Tweet About Carrie Fisher“
Mashable: Cinnabon fails the galaxy with terrible tweet about Carrie Fisher’s death
Heat Street: Poor Taste: Cinnabon’s ‘Tacky’ Bun Tribute Angers Carrie Fisher’s Fans
Raw Story: ‘Go f*ck yourself, corporate bakery’
Cinnabon quickly deleted the tweet and offered an apology:
Apparently, Cinnabon committed two sins. 1) the “buns” double entendre. 2) cashing in on an icon’s death.
Because, you know, manufacturing outrage for clicks is in no way cashing in on anyone’s death.
As far as the “buns” quip… I don’t know, I seem to recall Carrie Fisher as someone not just with a wonderful sense of humor, but a ribald sense of humor, someone who loved to laugh at herself and her own image.
And because we didn’t know Carrie Fisher, until someone who did says something, maybe we should all just keep our prudish mouths shut and let them decide.
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