"I'm not humorless, but...": Salon.com vs. Patton Oswalt

Thinking about the liberal equivalent of the conservative "I'm not racist, but...", I googled "I'm not humorless but". Among the results were a slapfight between Salon. com and Patton Oswalt:


Patton Oswalt | A SALON I USED TO KNOW

If your first response to a joke is to ask whether your politics should keep you from laughing, you don't understand humor or human nature. In the case of Oswalt's initial joke, if...