I don't want to drag this into the political realm, rather than being TV-related, but I couldn't disagree with Kevin more about Trump. I think the hardcore, lunatic-fringe base of the Republican party (which, I hasten to add, is not all of them) is delighted that anyone (in this case, Trump) is speaking their truths so boldly and unashamedly. While I do believe he has a limited shelf-life, I think he's giving voice to a lot of things that many of the other GOP candidates would say if they thought they could get away with it. (I mean, it's not that far from the idiocies that Huckabee and Carson, in particular, are spouting.)
That Colbert wants to raise the level of discussion is admirable, but as long as at least one of the two major parties is willing to trot out lunatics as candidates, he's doomed to failure. --Dave Sikula On Monday, August 17, 2015 at 4:19:34 PM UTC-7, Kevin M. (RPCV) wrote: > > > > On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 3:57 PM, 'David Bruggeman' via TVorNotTV < > [email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: > >> I think it might be a defensible position that it has become no longer >> funny/productive to satirize the lunatic fringes, whether you are doing it >> through a character or not. But I am just guessing. >> >> That has sort of been the point I've been making to friends about Trump's > candidacy. I liken his popularity in the polls to when Charlie Sheen went > off the rails a couple years ago and nearly everybody followed him on > Twitter, not because they liked him, but because they wanted to be witness > to the train wreck. Trump is a joke to his own party, and as long as he > remains a punchline, people can ignore actual issues. If he was treated > like any other candidate, he wouldn't even be polling at 1%, but as long as > the news reports every insignificant thing he says or does, and as long as > pundits can snark about him, it allows the other candidates to fly below > the radar, which is where they want to be over a year before the election. > Right now, if a Republican candidate other than Trump were to be caught on > tape the way Romney was during the last election saying something > outrageous and offensive, thanks to Trump it wouldn't even make headlines. > > The jokes. The satire. The punchlines. None of it is helping. > > > > -- > Kevin M. (RPCV) > -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
