Why so (serious)?

The Joke

For Trooper Thompson, who the other day noted:

... Richard Murphy is a curious cove. He has a blog, but he hasn't quite entered into the spirit of the medium with regard to interacting with his audience. Unless would-be interlocutors are prepared to do the necessary obeisance, they will either never pass the moderation stage or be smothered in a wet blanket of sneering patronisation....

Such inadvertent humour has brought the guy a kind of cult anti-following, and a recent spike in interest occurred when Ritchie seemed to throw down the gauntlet of debate over his 'Economic Plan B' - which one commenter identified as being lifted wholesale from Mitterrand's disastrous first two years in power...

"Now would anyone (serious) like to debate it?"

Why so (serious) Richard? Does it get you down when commenters don't agree? Awwwwwwww, c'mon!

Let's put a smile on that face.