I loved Jeneane Garofalo's comedy in one of my favorite movies "Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion". But now she has a new brand of "comedy" that is gross and anti-American. In addition to her stint as a liberal radio talk show host on Air America, she performs a stand-up routine which mostly is a forum for her political views. In one sketch, she sits on a chair pretending to be Laura Bush reading a storybook to a group of dead Iraqi children. For those who believe in this war and for the loved ones of men and women who have died in order for Iraqi children to be free, to say this is disgusting, unfair, and wrong is a gross understatement. I find it interesting, though, that her compassion for children does not extend to the millions of children in this country who are not even born because their mothers exercised their right to kill them.
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Bethany (Late Bloomer) Said:
I know what you mean. I've been thinking about Liberal fake compassion.
I think, now, it's not so much that their compassion is fake. I think they're only capable of obvious compassion. The suffering of a fetus (may or may not be a life)is unknowable to them, so they thoughtlessly dismiss it in favor of the known suffering of a woman with an unwanted pregnancy.
Similarly, the suffering of pre-invasion Iraquis was not so accessible as that of war victims.
Also, you sometimes run into those who think it's morally superior to passively allow murder and abuse than to cause incidental suffering while fighting tyranny. It's appalling, the lack of sincere consideration.
Bethany | 11.18.04 - 4:55 pm |
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