Reading the paragraph below makes me wish that our government were so responsive to subtleties in public opinion! [But it's not, and nothing will change regarding Chavez based on what John Stewart does or doesn't do.]<br><br>
Cheers,<br>J T.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/25/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">J. Tyler</b> <<a href="mailto:unended@sbcglobal.net">unended@sbcglobal.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>It's not comedy. It's funny, yes, but it's first and foremost politics,<br>and has as its aim the shaping of American public opinion. (And even if<br>it is first and foremost comedy, I don't understand why you believe
<br>criticism of comedy based on its real world political effects is off<br>limits, a very strange position for an anarchist to take.) I haven't<br>asked Stewart to toe any line. I have merely pointed out that his<br>actions have empowered the US government (however slightly) to further
<br>oppress the Venezuelan people, something you appear not to have<br>understood, or, if you have, not to have any objection to.<br></blockquote></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>J T. Ramsay<br>1626 S. 2nd St. #2<br>Philadelphia, PA 19148
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