[whtsthmttrmn]

I think there is a difference between "I don't like the joke/topic" and "apparently..."

The latter points out the obvious (of course someone wanted to make the joke, it was made) simply to try to garner sympathy and paint the joke-teller in a negative light.

[sharkjacobs]

Do you mean that Molly is going too far by not just criticizing the joke, but also, by implication, criticizing the joke-teller?

If Molly had said "I don't think that this joke is funny, and it is in poor taste to make light of victims of accounting fraud" do you think that would have been better and wouldn't have implied anything about the joke-teller?

[whtsthmttrmn]

I believe that's the crux, though I don't have a dog in the fight either way so I'm just guessing.