He decided to double down, scolding Carroll for misapplying one of the most recognizable forms of satire in the English language.Īfter Carroll testified that the above-referenced notion of disposing and retraining of all men was a satire, the Court interjected in a manner that corroborated such testimony by stating such notion derived from Swift’s A Modest Proposal. This joke.īut it wasn’t enough for Tacopina to complain, in this mistrial motion, that he wasn’t in on the joke because he didn’t recognize it as one. Others following along chortled at the irony of Tacopina missing the joke. When Kaplan interjected like this, Adam Klasfeld noted how common it is for Kaplan to identify a literary reference. THE COURT: It comes from Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal 700 years ago, right? You understand that that was said as a satire. So all the men here in this courtroom, in this country, all get shuffled off to Montana and get retrained.Ī. At one point I think in your book you propose we should dispose of all the men? When Defendant’s counsel elicited testimony from Plaintiff that her book contained reference to all men in this country being sent to Montana and retrained, the Court, in order to bolster the testimony of Plaintiff, chose to essentially testify himself as to why such commentary was a satire due to Jonathan Swift’s work A Modest Proposal: The motion would not go over well with Kaplan on a good day.īut among Tacopina’s complaints is that Judge Kaplan recognized a literary reference Carroll had made in her book that Tacopina didn’t even recognize as a literary reference. Jean Carroll suit, accusing Judge Lewis Kaplan of bias. Joe Tacopina has filed for a mistrial in the E.

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