Sarcasm. It's a difficult concept. It's also the liberal bubble. Conservatives have been making sarcastic remarks like this for a year now. But it's new to the media which has shut out conservative voices.
Donald Trump said Thursday morning that he was only kidding when he appeared to encourage Russian intelligence agencies to find Hillary Clinton's thousands of deleted emails.
"Of course I'm being sarcastic," Trump said in a Fox News interview that aired the day after his comments sparked a national furor. "You have 33,000 emails deleted, and the real problem is what was said on the emails from the Democratic National Convention."
"Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing," Trump said at a Wednesday news conference, referring to separate emails that Clinton wrote on a personal server she used for officials business and did not hand over to the State Department. "I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press."
Because of course if Trump wanted Russia to hack Hillary's emails, which they appear to have done anyway along with a whole lot else, he would issue such a call at a public press conference.
But of course when Obama joked about being a Muslim socialist, the media knew better than to take that seriously. The media is very attuned to its own sense of humor, but deaf to the notion that anyone outside it might have a sense of humor too.