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To: rlmorel

Please see several posts down. 77 I believe. I did not know you were the moderator of this Website.


80 posted on 09/04/2005 8:23:36 AM PDT by shrinkermd
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To: shrinkermd

LOL. Okay, I am not the moderator, but then again, I do not press the abuse button at the drop of a hat. As a matter of fact, I have never pressed the abuse button.

The problem with satire in todays environment, is that there is nothing regarding the democrats that can be easily separated from satire. For satire to be effective, there has to be at least some means of separating it from reality, otherwise, it is a commentary or version of reality.

There was a post on one of the other threads, stating the Democrats had hired planes with banners to fly around the affected areas with various slogans on them implying that Bush was to blame.

My first reaction was, is this true? How can I verify this? I could not disregard it out of hand that the Liberals would not do something like that. Behavior such as that is part of reality today.

So, satire, is difficult, particularly electronic satire, and satire regarding politics. Have you noticed how it has become increasingly difficult to differentiate the things posted at Scrappleface and the Onion from actual events?

What would we have thought 30 years ago about calls to impeach the President and fire the SOD because some prisoners had womens underwear put on their heads?

Anyway, I did see the humor in it, but with the way political reality is today, I try to find it in nearly everything!

You forgot your \SATIRE tag...:)


117 posted on 09/04/2005 9:35:14 AM PDT by rlmorel ("Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does." Whittaker Chambers)
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