Certainly satire can change the political landscape. If you can denude academia of its pretensions with satire, you can change the way whole generations think.
To conclude otherwise is to say that Voltaire had no influence on world history.
Posted on 02/11/2015 5:38:21 AM PST by SJackson
You’re both right.
WFB was great and did so much in part because he was so funny.
Coincidentally, his mantle seems to be passing to Greenfield.
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Certainly satire can change the political landscape. If you can denude academia of its pretensions with satire, you can change the way whole generations think.
To conclude otherwise is to say that Voltaire had no influence on world history.
I love the subtleness of sarcasm but hate snarkasm.
In my view it was Blowprah that made Baraq.
Fellow Chicago mobsters.
She put him on the tv map and gave him tremendous credibility with women.
Heck don't we get enough of that on every other station?
Good riddance!
I completely agree with you- Excellent question: why do the Repubs keep putting out humorless candidates with no ability to communicate any sort of inspiring Vision? Are those qualities now dead in our society? Kennedy did it. Reagan did it. No one else since then. Clinton was a grinning blowhard who went on & on loving the sound of his own voice. Nothing inspiring there. Obama gave a wonderful speech one time (full of lies) in 2004, but nothing since his official duties began. Hillary’s speeches are horrible, making deaf people wince. I see no humor in any of the Dem pols, including Ms. Warren. But it’s not just the politicians who need help. It’s our Conservative pundits who need to take up the reins and show what a little worm Jon Stewart really is/was - the young people will listen, but they need to hear the truth for a change in a pop culture form that speaks to them. The Medium is the Message, right?
Are you a WWII vet? Because if you are a Boomer, then your generation is going to go down in history as The Locusts - ate everything, left nothing, and stuck their children and grandchildren (going eight generations deep) with the check.
Unless you were in the Third Army with Patton somewhere, I’d reserve judgment on X. So far, none of our Presidents have rolled up debt equal to literally every other President that preceded him - combined.
In fact, I doubt we get an X’er elected. As for millenials, they are living in what little remains of what the Boomers haven’t consumed yet. By the time they’re gone, there won’t be much left, but debt. There will be plenty of that.
I wouldn’t give Stewart as much power as people on the left and the right try to give him. They guy is a Hollywood Jew. He is insignificant to me.
I agree. Compared to Blowprah in 2008 he was invisible.
So you’d use the logic fallacy of Tu Quoque to justify your pathetic attempt at being better than me?
Screw you.
You were the loser that started casting aspersions at X’ers and millenials, not me.
I just called your hypocrisy.
Stewart, Colbert and Maher are this era’s version of the agenda-driven journalists of the 20s and 30s who unrepentantly cheerleader for Soviet Communism.
Who was that particularly infamous one (NY Times guy) who was bought/paid for by the Soviets and helped enable/cover up their purges and deliberate famines?
Walter Duranty
Yup, thats him! Thanks!
Thar’s a new idea and a very goood one IMHO. I think it would work. Maybe that’s why the don’t use it.
If you ever listen to Chris Plante, on WMAL, he points out that the NY Times still proudly displays the Pulitzer they received for Duranty’s “reporting” in the Soviet Union.
Yup, I’ve listened to Plante and WMAL for years. It’s his references to that Pulitzer that brought Duranty to mind in this context.
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