This piece on Norm Macdonald called 'the most embarrassing thing anyone has ever written for the New York Times'

Greg P. | 1:05 PM on September 21, 2021

Matthew Walther, editor of the Catholic magazine The Lamp, has a new piece out in the New York Times on Norm Macdonald’s “quite Christian” comedy:

I wrote on Norm https://t.co/dYffNpYCS4

— Matthew Walther (@matthewwalther) September 20, 2021

Except he appears to have missed the obvious sarcasm in this anecdote on O.J. Simpson from Macdonald’s appearance on David Spade’s Comedy Central show a few years back:

By the end of his life, Mr. Macdonald seemed to have abandoned even his well-known animus against O.J. Simpson. “All he’s guilty of to me,” he said on a Comedy Central program in 2019, was of being “the greatest rusher in the history of the N.F.L. Maybe I was the greatest rusher — to judgment.”

It is not hard to see in such gestures an expression of Mr. Macdonald’s faith and his attendant belief in the intrinsic metaphysical dignity of the human person.

Watch for yourself where it’s clear that Macdonald hadn’t changed his tune on Simpson but was instead making a joke on cancel culture:

The offending clip:https://t.co/BixPJoAVLZ

— The Cable Company (Comedy Web Series) (@CableCoShow) September 21, 2021

This really could be “the most embarrassing thing anyone has ever written for the New York Times”:

NBC Executive Don Ohlmeyer, a friend of OJ Simpson, threatened to fire Norm Macdonald if he continued calling Simpson a murderer. Suffice to say, Norm was fired. Not difficult to determine who's on the right side of history in that situation. pic.twitter.com/qPq9C6RBOd

— Ronan Mullen (@RonanReigns) September 14, 2021

And there was this one from years later:

One of the greatest OJ Simpson jokes ever told was made by Norm Macdonald at the ESPYs and it came out of nowhere. Absolute gold.pic.twitter.com/fGfjxGaUap

— Josh Jordan (@NumbersMuncher) September 14, 2021

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