Agreed, the only reason he is being mourned is he is a liberal.
But leftie stand-up comics generally leave me flat—so I assume the politics is influencing me.
So, while I still greatly admire work done by flaming lefties like Alec Baldwin (Hunt for Red October), Linda Ronstadt (just about all of it but especially the stuff with Nelson Riddle), and Paddy Chayefski (Network, The Hospital), the best I can say about a guy like Williams is that I appreciate how much many people (rodguy included) liked him and saw him as a “genius” — but that I’d be inclined to side with bray in the end. The butt of his joke was inevitably America and, to me, that ain’t funny.
Even when I was a liberal I didn’t find his humor funny. Imagine the coverage if it were Clint Eastwood had killed himself and how they would be investigating every question to destroy his character.
No doubt he won some Academy Awards which have become Nobelized, but I can’t think of one of his movies I enjoyed. Being a Marxist has its advantages in Hollywood and being a conservative can get you blacklisted.