It may have been that he and his advisers had a philosophical bias not to overreact that led them to misapprehend how big a deal this was for the public.
[The club's] story was that I was overreacting that night and I was too drunk.
"And I overreacted to that and I said that he was a cunt.
He overreacted in that situation, and it was stupid".
Sure, he acknowledges, Dixie started making eyes at the Republicans, but Democrats overreacted to that flirtation.
It is common to be told that you are overreacting, that you have misinterpreted the situation, or that it simply isn't a big deal.
In fact, count me among those who believe that the biggest threat right now is that policy in emerging markets will overreact — that their central banks will raise interest rates sharply in an attempt to prop up their currencies, which isn't what they or the rest of the world need right now.
He says it's dangerous, that he thinks the protesters are overreacting, that the brutal crackdown is to be expected.
The trouble was that the press went to town and the festival bosses overreacted, and that's why Von Trier isn't speaking today.
I think they overreact like that because its easier than admitting that I'm right.
