The Poop on Oprah

Apparently, Oprah and the cast of Will and Grace discussed the liberating nature of bowel movements today on TV. While we were shuddering in horror, Defamer covered the revelations in a somewhat Freudian manner:

It's a refreshing, candid moment, though, [that] perhaps crossed a line when Winfrey encouraged her guests, in the name of series closure, to join her in squeezing one out on national television. Luckily, they chose to demure, though they did compromise by recreating the very difficult to achieve quadruple auto-fellative maneuver pictured on the series' finale advertising.

As much as Defamer might have wanted Oprah and crew to be more demure in their discussions ala dump, the word the editor was groping for here is "demur."

Meanwhile, we wish the editors would reconsider their use of adjectives, qualifiers and commas. Doesn't the sentence read better like this?

Winfrey's candor crossed the line when she encouraged her guests to squeeze one out on national television. Luckily, they chose to demur, though they did recreate the difficult quadruple auto-fellative maneuver depicted on the series' finale advertising.