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Related: About this forumLast Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO): Tom Wheeler Is Not A Dingo
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Published on Jun 15, 2014
FCC Chair Tom Wheeler watched Last Week Tonight's bit on net neutrality.
He thought it was funny and creative. He wants us to know he's not a dingo.
It occurred to me recently, just how screwed we'd all be if it weren't for the likes of people such as Bill Maher, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert and John Oliver. They are our National Psychological/ Emotional Cathartic Safety Valves.
- Just think of how bleak life would if there were no one around to properly mock Fox News......
freshwest
(53,661 posts)DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)bbgrunt
(5,281 posts)MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)No doubt.
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)They are so unwilling to address reality, to engage in rational and step away from the magical, that it is a complete waste of time to address them in any kind of serious, rational manner. Ever. It really will do no good, none at all, and you will die trying. You have to approach them from another angle, disorganize their world, and cause it to be reshaped like you want it.
Interestingly there is some research about people and change that backs this up, and it may be that mocking them is one of the very few ways that might cause them to open the window and rethink things so we can identify our common enemy.
So maybe not just bleak without them...maybe lost without them
Thank you for this.
delrem
(9,688 posts)If there were only mockery there'd be no solution, no way out.
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)attitudes till they burn the world under their feet and take as many as they can with them.
IronLionZion
(45,410 posts)I haven't seen his birth certificate.
Fearless
(18,421 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)Because Christine O'Donnell is a dingo.
Alex P Notkeaton
(309 posts)Tom Wheeler is obviously not a Meryl Streep fan