The ability to empathize (with Iranian youth, with Libyans and/or with Wisconsin's Tax Payers?) has been dulled. Responsibility has been eroded and he can no longer think logically or process facts.
There may be many reasons for such decline but since these also happen to be the characteristic effects of, say, cocaine, with which he says his life has been awash, might there not be a connection — the most important consequence of which will most certainly be to produce the .....
.... pretender to what passes for the "presidency" of the United States of America?
Stephen Fry for "pres?"
Another druggy hoping to convince the world they are sane.
Witty!
How disappointing to read all of this. I have always enjoyed watching Fry perform in Blackadder, Jeeves and Wooster, and listening to him on Just a Minute.
Perhaps this was all foretold in a Blackadder script from 1989:
Captain Blackadder (Rowan Atkinson): I was wondering whether, after being tortured by the most vicious sadist in the German army, I might be allowed a week’s leave to recuperate.
General Melchett (Stephen Fry): Excellent idea. Your commanding officer would have to be stark raving mad to refuse you.
Captain Blackadder: You are my commanding officer.
General Melchett: Well?
Captain Blackadder: Can I have a week’s leave to recuperate, sir?
General Melchett: Certainly not!
Captain Blackadder: Thank you sir.
General Melchett: Baaa!
I’ve never heard of him.
He was a good “Jeeves”.
Sorry to hear this - I’ve enjoyed his comedy over the yrs
You have to cut him slack about anything he might say. If he really was a regular cocaine user for 15 years, there isn’t much left of him.
He did a documentary series named Stephen Fry in American where he visited all 50 states in 9 episodes, quirky, educational and entertaining, saw it on HD Net.
“Cocaine is a hell of a drug.”
And it apparently tells you some crazy stuff.