>>>>>>>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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>>>>>>Doug
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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.
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>>I'm actually starting to believe it. The wild eyed Republicans are going to shut down the government over policy differences. Talk about the law of unintended consequences.
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>I've been numbed by manufactured crises.
>I've concluded that the media has been overhyping them to boost ratings.
>Remember the doomsday predictions about the downgrade of our debt rating?
>T-Bill prices went up shortly afterward.
>Remember the dire predictions about going over the fiscal cliff?
>Well, we did and the market has hit new highs since then.
>We've had these on regular cycles since Obama was elected.
>Each one has been portrayed as the next apocalypse by crisis-hungry pundits and they've all been wrong.
>You can be sure of one thing, Mike-. they won't do anything that jeopardizes their paychecks or the pork that is going to their districts, so they'll find some money somewhere.

We'll see. This seems really serious.