“Kathy Griffen Tweet: Comics by their nature are anti-establishment. They are charged with the often unenviable task of going after people in power.”
Except for liberals in power.
Comics by nature are anti-establishment?, but I guess that doesn’t apply to liberals. Wouldn’t liberals still be considered establishment but just liberal in nature? I don’t remember Kathy Griffin going after Clinton or Obama at all.
Thing is ... Wolf didn’t “go after people in power”, she went after a straw man. The “jokes” had absolutely nothing to do with the people they were intended to “roast”. It’s delusional to believe that the Trump administration has any resemblance to the Leftist fantasy dystopia which is The Handmaid’s Tale - but since Trump et al are the designated opposition (shown by the fact that the Left refuses to work _with_ Trump on _anything_ no matter how Left-benefitting it may be), and a particular popular story enthralls the current Leftist notion of evil, then Leftists proceed to impute their favorite hobgoblins upon their designated opponents leading to the kind of vitriolic screed seen at that dinner. That the targets of the vitriol cringed as they did only served to signal (wrongly) that the accusations applied where they didn’t; alas, there is no good way to express in English “what you have accused me of has no basis in reality” in a way which engages those so delusional and those applauding the attack.
Comics by their nature are anti-establishment. They are charged with the often unenviable task of going after people in power.
This was a meeting of journalists, and journalists are cynical about society and promote naive faith in government. The reality is that Associated Press journalists (employees of members of the AP or employees of the AP) are constantly in cahoots in deciding the only real question in their business: "What is the news?” The AP “wire” is a continuous virtual meeting among them, andPeople of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty and justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary. - Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations (1776)predicts exactly what we observe. The decisions as to what is important to say - and what is important not to say - are made jointly, and have the effect of projecting cynicism towards society. And that cynicism includes the implication that more government control of society (less freedom) is essential.