04-16-2004, 04:28 PM
Hi,
it's more fun to make fun of him over things that have been blown out of proportion by the media
Yes, if you can be reasonably sure that your audience understand that it is a joke. No, if your audience is a bunch of ignorant fools (say the average American voter) who think that it is a statement of fact and arrogance.
In a world where the political future of a person can be unmade by one good satire, jokes are not to be taken lightly. Like the Irish bardic druids who reputedly could kill a man with a song, the modern media wields great power through ridicule. And they seldom wield it well, causing people to fail or to succeed for the wrong reasons.
This "joke" contributed to the fact that we've ended up with a president who's IQ isn't enough to even understand what the Internet is, much less to support it. Frankly, I don't find Shrub in office, and the cost that will have for this nation for years to come to be too damned humorous.
--Pete
it's more fun to make fun of him over things that have been blown out of proportion by the media
Yes, if you can be reasonably sure that your audience understand that it is a joke. No, if your audience is a bunch of ignorant fools (say the average American voter) who think that it is a statement of fact and arrogance.
In a world where the political future of a person can be unmade by one good satire, jokes are not to be taken lightly. Like the Irish bardic druids who reputedly could kill a man with a song, the modern media wields great power through ridicule. And they seldom wield it well, causing people to fail or to succeed for the wrong reasons.
This "joke" contributed to the fact that we've ended up with a president who's IQ isn't enough to even understand what the Internet is, much less to support it. Frankly, I don't find Shrub in office, and the cost that will have for this nation for years to come to be too damned humorous.
--Pete
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