It's become a lot easier in recent years to make fun of him, once he began losing his edge and tried to compensate by not reading or responding to the posts of his critics.
Ann wrote: > Reading this just now I was struck by the term "making fun of you". It is an > interesting turn of phrase when > you think about it. The concept that people can take another person and > "make fun" out of them doesn't > actually sound so terrible. In Barry's case, the ability to take this man > and make something "fun" out of him > is a minor miracle - sort of like the silk purse out of a sow's ear kind of > thing. Or, to keep it a little more > current, creating world peace out of dizzy peas.
