Bad Taste?

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"One of Israel’s leading news portals, Walla.co.il, has posted a poll at the entry page for it’s culture section.

The poll question, in Hebrew, is this: Who will portray Obama in the movie that will be produced about his assassination?
The options are: Jamie Foxx, Denzel Washington, Will Smith, Mos Def or Chris Rock.

Although it’s clear that this poll was put up humorously and intended as a jest (before the Secret Service storms Walla’s offices I must say, in their defense, that I know some the editors and writers there, and that they are liberal clowns, not hate filled zealots) I for one got the chills from it’s matter-of-fact tone. I couldn’t quite decide if this is bad taste incarnate, or a glib way to say something that they fear of or just a macabre joke - clowning both America’s trigger happy racism and Hollywood’s money-starved grave-robbery - done badly and ill-timed."