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In reply to the discussion: Why aren't there More Conservative Comedians? [View all]deutsey
(20,166 posts)47. The bio on his official site is interesting
http://www.mortsahlofficial.com/biography.html
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Mort was really rolling during the Sixties. Then, Jack Kennedy was assassinated. Jim Garrison,the New Orleans DA, found the assassination to be an inside job, and, in one of the bravest acts in recent American History, sued Clay Shaw and the CIA, and got as far as a jury trial. Many people do not know that Mort worked with Garrison as an unpaid investigator on the case. Mort was a smart man, politically and socially, involved in a very heavy, publicized case. The government planted agents inside Garrisons staff, spirited witnesses out of the state, tapped phones, and put forth a lot of effort for a case that they and their stooges in the press ridiculed.
Many among us, including educated Liberals, know that we killed Torrijos in Panama, Lumumba in Africa, Mossadeq in Iran, pushed Aristide out of Haiti. We supported the murderous Sadaam Hussein in the eighties and early nineties, knowing what and who he was. Rumsfeld even sold him the nerve gas he used on the Iranians and the Kurds. Thanks to Youtube, we have Dick Cheney stating, famously, in 1994, what a tactical mistake it would be to invade Iraq. More recently, we invaded Panama, and kidnapped the Sovereign leader of a neighboring country. Why? Because he was getting ready to spill the beans on the Bush family, Iran Contra, and cocaine trafficking. Knowing this to be true, why is it so difficult to believe that these same fascist forces of darkness would kill President Kennedy. He said "I intend to shatter the CIA into a thousand pieces."
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Mort was really rolling during the Sixties. Then, Jack Kennedy was assassinated. Jim Garrison,the New Orleans DA, found the assassination to be an inside job, and, in one of the bravest acts in recent American History, sued Clay Shaw and the CIA, and got as far as a jury trial. Many people do not know that Mort worked with Garrison as an unpaid investigator on the case. Mort was a smart man, politically and socially, involved in a very heavy, publicized case. The government planted agents inside Garrisons staff, spirited witnesses out of the state, tapped phones, and put forth a lot of effort for a case that they and their stooges in the press ridiculed.
Many among us, including educated Liberals, know that we killed Torrijos in Panama, Lumumba in Africa, Mossadeq in Iran, pushed Aristide out of Haiti. We supported the murderous Sadaam Hussein in the eighties and early nineties, knowing what and who he was. Rumsfeld even sold him the nerve gas he used on the Iranians and the Kurds. Thanks to Youtube, we have Dick Cheney stating, famously, in 1994, what a tactical mistake it would be to invade Iraq. More recently, we invaded Panama, and kidnapped the Sovereign leader of a neighboring country. Why? Because he was getting ready to spill the beans on the Bush family, Iran Contra, and cocaine trafficking. Knowing this to be true, why is it so difficult to believe that these same fascist forces of darkness would kill President Kennedy. He said "I intend to shatter the CIA into a thousand pieces."
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Dennis Miller thinks that Dennis Miller is funny. So funny that he can't stop laughing at his own
AnotherMcIntosh
Aug 2012
#79
I remember him being merciless with Bill Clinton and the BJ -- ten years after the fact.
no_hypocrisy
Aug 2012
#62
I have no knowledge of Ray Romano. Was he merciless with Clinton after Clinton signed NAFTA?
AnotherMcIntosh
Aug 2012
#82
They "write books with good sales numbers"? They say that they have good numbers. Are you not
AnotherMcIntosh
Aug 2012
#87
It's why they always had laws banning "Lese-Majeste' "(humours disrespect of monarchs)
Ken Burch
Aug 2012
#63
Comedians make fun of ridiculous people, and most of these people are conservative these days.
reformist2
Aug 2012
#13
It's like a roomful of flatulent people constantly breathing each other's backwind...
JHB
Aug 2012
#17
because jokes against the powerful can be funny, while jokes about the powerless just aren't
DisgustipatedinCA
Aug 2012
#18
Mort Sahl is the only funny conservative in existence; he must get very lonely
Tom Ripley
Aug 2012
#27
You've made another good point there...the roots of comedy are unpredictability & surprise
Ken Burch
Aug 2012
#68
Hate and fear (which largely make up the conservative "DNA") just doesn't translate into humor
Proud Liberal Dem
Aug 2012
#37
I actually watched this turd, and if it's funny to anyone, then I'm an Albanian aviator. ;>))
VOX
Aug 2012
#70
Great humour punches through to truths. Republicans are liars, selfish or patsies or pawns.
applegrove
Aug 2012
#56
There's too much rage and fear in the right-wing mindset these days to produce actual comedy
Ken Burch
Aug 2012
#59
The greatest comics have always been observers who are outside of the mainstream power structure...
VOX
Aug 2012
#69