[FRIAM] Fridman V Rogan (V Rutt), Tolerance and Charitability

[steve smith]

Synergistic/Syncronistic to this thread,  Jon Stewart and the current 
Daily Show crew rolled onto /my Idiot Box/ as I was typing up this last 
response:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIkAbY5EX7g&t=1530s
    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIkAbY5EX7g&t=1530s>

Very parallel/salient... ?

On 6/14/24 7:37 PM, steve smith wrote:
> ericS> Russell Brand, right?
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Brand
>> I am put in mind of Joaquin Phoenix’s style of preening as Joker in 
>> whichever batman movie it was.
>
> I remember when Dennis Miller was a comedic darling of the left until 
> after 9-11 when he seemed to do a full 180...  and my lefty friends 
> (mostly women) went crazy when he started loving on Bush and the 
> Patriot Act and Authoritarian and Intolerant memes.
>
> Somehow Jon Stewart has managed not to take that fall...  I think he's 
> safe but not sure...
>
> I have never heard his side of that story, but I've presumed he took 
> the same line more than a few of my previously Lefty friends of taking 
> such exception to realizing that we (Americans/Western Culture) are 
> the "Great Satan" to a lot of very angry (and sometimes very capable) 
> folks from the middle east.   Like there are "no athiests in foxholes" 
> some might say "there are no liberals on the wrong end of 
> crime/terrorism"?   I'm not sure the distinction is left/right so much 
> as something like Abundance/Scarcity?
>
> I did love the Joaquin Phoenix Joker presentation... I think many 
> high-profile "charismatic" characters *are* on some psychotic spectrum...
>
> I think we are drawn to a little bit of crazy?
>
>
>
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