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Well Palin communicates well with her constituency and she's a joke... or is that just stupidity she communicates and not humor?
It seems that the subject of Jon Stewart is the subject of some discussion in these forums right now. Some people have trouble with the idea of a comedian being an effective commentator.
So I will pose the question:
Can humor be an effective means of political communication?
Before someone asks: Effective in terms of communicating a political idea that is based on fact and rational thought.
Serious issues should never be joked about, especially things like the War in politics.
It can do as much good as it can bad.
It's a great way to bring people to listen to you, to loosen up the nerves and relax the tense.
But some ways it's unacceptable. . . Obama is funny, but he makes jokes about a lot of the wrong things and turns out doing nothing but offending people - even his OWN supporters.
Serious issues should never be joked about, especially things like the War in politics.
Curious what these jokes were? I either missed them or brused them off?
Thanks in advance
One solid example came to my mind when I wrote that. . . .but of course Obama's not the only one to commit such jokes.
Obama, during a speech some time ago he made a joke . . .something like "The government has no interest in taking over the private sector . . . I have two wars to deal with already, I can't handle anything more"
It seems that the subject of Jon Stewart is the subject of some discussion in these forums right now. Some people have trouble with the idea of a comedian being an effective commentator.
So I will pose the question:
Can humor be an effective means of political communication?
It seems that the subject of Jon Stewart is the subject of some discussion in these forums right now. Some people have trouble with the idea of a comedian being an effective commentator.
So I will pose the question:
Can humor be an effective means of political communication?
Before someone asks: Effective in terms of communicating a political idea based on logic and fact. Or is there a problem with this means of communication where these things are lost or distorted?
Also, I encourage people to think outside the case of Jon Stewart. One famous example would be A Modest Proposal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
What is it with you and rutabagas?
Or for that matter what is it with you and misspelling rutabaga?
I guess id have to hear it or see it on video because im not reading the joke nor see anything wrong. But written word is always hard to judge emotion of.
Any others?
What is it with you and rutabagas?
Or for that matter what is it with you and misspelling rutabaga?
Actually, we've probably had too many new plans already, we might have to back up a few plans...but that might not have been the case in the days of Will Rogers.Will Rogers The republicans got a plan and the democrats got a plan. I also got a plan- NO NEW PLANS.
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