On Apr 23, 2009, at 10:16 AM, Doug Henwood wrote:
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> On Apr 23, 2009, at 7:36 AM, Michael Pollak wrote:
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>> "Liberals will see him as an over-the-top satire of Bill O'Reilly-
>> type
>> pundit and think that he is making fun of a conservative pundit,"
>> LaMarre explained. "But conservatives will say, yes, he is an
>> over-the-top satire of Bill O'Reilly, but by being funny he gets to
>> make really good points and make fun of liberals. So they think the
>> joke is on liberals."
>
> Ha. Reminds me of Judith Butler's point re: the Sokal affair. To do
> parody, you have to inhabit the space you're parodying. Evidently
> the cons who like Colbert pick up on that.
>
Tuesday night's "the Word" segment--on Obama and torture--was,
appropriately, one of the least funny things he's done. Any liberal
or any conservative who wasn't squirming by the end deserves to be
called by the French word "con."
Shane Mage
> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>
> Herakleitos of Ephesos