Do we take ourselves too seriously?

There's been a lot of talk on one of the lists I'm on about Kathie Lee Gifford and some horribly offensive thing she said on TV. Okay, actually I only read one post before I dashed off to Youtube to see what the heck was going on. Honestly, I was expecting something reallty bad considering that Gifford isn't opposed to putting her foot in her mouth on occassion. Here's a clip of what she said:



That's it? Dirty, nasty pagans? To me, that's the equivalent of being called a doodyhead in the playground. Should it have been said? No. Does it merit working ourselves into a frenzy? In my opinion, no. Ssometimes you've got to consider the source.

Here's what bugged me--the third choice was pagans believED that, as if all the pagans that ever were are extinct--or that whatever they believed had been proven to be wrong. That's more bothersome to me than anybody's big mough since you assume the producers are supposed to be dealing with facts not commentary.