>>>>>Funny, but the Borowitz Report is satire. :- (
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>>>>I love Andy Borowitz -- been reading his stuff for at least 10 years. The sad thing is that it's getting harder to distinguish the words and actions of political nutjobs (on both sides but vastly tilted more towards the Republicans) from political satire, regardless of how outrageous it is.
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>>>For me, the first realization was about 20 years ago, the first time I heard Rush Limbaugh. "What brilliant political satire.", I thought the first couple of times I heard him. The I realized that he was serious. : (.
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>>I was taking Basic Training when All In The Family first came out. Much of my platoon were Reservists from a unit based in Louisiana. Most of them LOVED the show because TV was finally showing somebody who felt the way they did.
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>We shouldn't group people like Archie Bunker (many of my good friends sound like a script for that show when they speak) with people like Rush Limbaugh and - on my side - Keith Olberman or Chris Matthews.
>They drive a wedge between people by intentionally fanning the flames of controversy in order to boost ratings.
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>KO is just as repulsive to me as Rush is.

Agreed.