>>>>>>“It’s a lot like the spirit of what Stephen Colbert does — by exaggerating and mocking something, he shows its absurdity, and that is what satire is all about,” Mr. Remnick continued.
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>>>>>I often wonder whether the folks Colbert is lampooning understand that he's playing a character.
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>>>>>Tamar
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>>>>And also interesting that their failure to understand that kind of underlines and exemplifies the stuff he's making fun of <g>
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>>>And at times, when he gets one of them grilled using a naive & sincere conservative stand, and with proper faith asks all the wrong questions... and they can't, for any hell they may believe in, understand what was it that hit them :).
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>>I think it would be fun to see Bill Mahr, Colbert, P.J.O'Rourke and Dennis Miller mix it up (though intellectually Bill Maher would kind of be punching above his weight)
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>>The latter three are all invited to my fantasy dinner party, however - seated near Tom Wolfe and Krauthammer.
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>Y'all would all have to sit at Krauthammer's feet. Mahr wouldn't know how to act with more than 1 conservative in the mix.
Would be kind of cool to watch K slice an dice him, though <g> (but notice Mahr wasn't on my invitiation list - I get tired of him quick and don't think him nearly as clever as he thinks he is.)
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Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
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Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
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