And given that the Right and the Left can agree upon virtually nothing regarding Benghazi, it maybe isn't surprising that they can't agree upon whether it's acceptable satire fodder.

“The problem with using humor as a rhetorical device (ESPECIALLY on twitter) is that the meaning of humor isn't determined by the message sender — it's determined by the audience,” according to Dannagal G. Young, an assistant professor at the University of Delaware and an expert on political humor and satire. “Humor is implicit. Its meaning is never explicitly stated, rather it depends entirely on what information is activated in mind of the audience by the terms in the joke.”

In an email, Young said that disconnect between different audiences is especially pronounced on an issue like Benghazi.

“Here the problem is simple. The word Benghazi is symbolic of two VERY different things for liberals and conservatives,” she wrote. “If you're going to throw the word out there, you're going to end up with a polarized definition of what it is you're talking about.