Harry Shearer on the entertainer-pundits: (from LA City Beat)
Have you picked on Bush more than you did Clinton?
No. The guys who have the guns are always the target. That’s sort of the rule. Everyone else is just running around talking. They are the ones who are actually doing something, changing people’s lives for better or for worse. Other people the media calls “satirists” don’t work that way. Al Franken is basically a paid court jester for one side of the argument. You’ll never hear him saying something funny about Al Gore, ever. It’s the same with Ann Coulter or Michael Moore or Bill O’Reilly — they are all in the same business: “Yay for our side, boo for the other side, come on, troops, let’s go.” Just mindlessly getting the testosterone going. Which is not a knock on testosterone. It’s a perfectly fine hormone.
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