Synergistic/Syncronistic to this thread, Jon Stewart and the current
Daily Show crew rolled onto /my Idiot Box/ as I was typing up this last
response:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIkAbY5EX7g&t=1530s
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIkAbY5EX7g&t=1530s>
Very parallel/salient... ?
On 6/14/24 7:37 PM, steve smith wrote:
ericS> Russell Brand, right?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Brand
I am put in mind of Joaquin Phoenix’s style of preening as Joker in
whichever batman movie it was.
I remember when Dennis Miller was a comedic darling of the left until
after 9-11 when he seemed to do a full 180... and my lefty friends
(mostly women) went crazy when he started loving on Bush and the
Patriot Act and Authoritarian and Intolerant memes.
Somehow Jon Stewart has managed not to take that fall... I think he's
safe but not sure...
I have never heard his side of that story, but I've presumed he took
the same line more than a few of my previously Lefty friends of taking
such exception to realizing that we (Americans/Western Culture) are
the "Great Satan" to a lot of very angry (and sometimes very capable)
folks from the middle east. Like there are "no athiests in foxholes"
some might say "there are no liberals on the wrong end of
crime/terrorism"? I'm not sure the distinction is left/right so much
as something like Abundance/Scarcity?
I did love the Joaquin Phoenix Joker presentation... I think many
high-profile "charismatic" characters *are* on some psychotic spectrum...
I think we are drawn to a little bit of crazy?
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