tasting tuffy

timothy egan today, like so many, refers to tuffy's amazing obama-getting-run-over-by-a-bull performance as 'tasteless.' this leaves the impression that tuffy was trying to achieve something tasteful - something sophoclean, maybe; something that sounds like mozart or looks like a nice flower arrangement - and failed. that wouldn't be my speculation about the goals of tuffy's approach, which is not to say he doesn't have better taste than paul krugman, e.g. i wonder if egan and such think that tastefulness is the goal of jokes, or poliical commentary in general, or that the bounds of tastefulness are the bounds of legitimate expression or human fun, or that tastelessness is a great form of moral evil.