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“I am not inferring to [sic] those of you who are gay rights activists and who like to monitor this show, I’m not inferring that this accident happened because he was gay,” said Rios, who hosts “Sandy Rios In The Morning” on American Family Radio. “But I do think it’s an interesting part of the story, and I bet it will be edited out.”
“I don’t know," she added, "but I think it is something to be discussed and I think it’s a factor and I doubt you will hear it anywhere else.”
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Yeah Sandy, you won’t hear about it anywhere else because it’s beyond stupid.
Maybe it’s too silly to mention amongst the very sad stupidities but when the Republiopathic News Channel FauxNews discussed the recent highest-priced Picasso, they smudged out the breasts!
They tried it before. They just don’t get it. Ideology ahead of comedy doesn’t work. Especially when it’s the ruling class getting angry shipped as “humor.”
Jimmy Dore of The Young Turks has it nailed. (Paraphrasing here) “When you see someone powerful making fun of someone weak, you don’t see it as comedy, you see it as bullying. When you see someone weak making fun of someone strong, it’s funny. Comedy punches up, not down.”
Fox can make fun of black people, the poor, atheists, gays and whatever other “out” groups they like, but it will never work. And they will NEVER make fun of The One Percent or Christian churches.
The anti-vaxxers are just one manifestation of opposition to science, creationists and denialists being others although they often overlap. That mindset does have a strong partisan imbalance.
To quote the late comedian Richard Jeni, “It’s tomato and clam juice, and you drink it. Notice I said YOU fucking drink it. (…) Wait, the tomato juice doesn’t taste fishy enough - swizzle a herring in there, will ya?”
Well, I don’t know about that. Jokes about how poor and ignorant are the poor and ignorant usually are funny. Snuffy Smith was, Andy Capp was, Jeff Foxworthy’s redneck jokes are. Even the old Polish and Italian jokes were usually funny – scornful, and funny.
