On two consecutive days, Stephen Colbert looked at those who seem to thrive on dismissing health experts about the threat of an Ebola epidemic in the US and instead wallow in mindless fear and fear-mongering.
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Jessica Williams of The Daily Show had an amusing segment about all the forms of harassment that women face even when they are simply walking along a street. She interviewed a large group of women who said they routinely had to fend off unwanted advances and comments and that as a defense mechanism they put on stern faces and strictly avoided eye contact with anyone because that could be construed as an invitation that they did not intend to make.
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I have been ranting about the abuses of this practice for some time and was glad to see John Oliver use it as the basis for his latest investigative report on Last Week Tonight. (As an aside, actor Jeff Goldblum seems to like making goofy cameo appearances on these comedy shows.)
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The incident of the intruder who recently managed to enter the White House before being captured was obvious fodder for the eternally panic-stricken to call for even more stringent security measures and the use of lethal force because that seems to be the only solution to any problem for those people. But it also provided a field day for humor and one has to merely scan through the collection of editorial cartoons around the nation to see that many cartoonists exploited this event for material. (See here and here for just two of the many cartoons I saw.)
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Fox News bloviator Bill O’Reilly did the rounds of various shows on his network promoting his idea that that US needed troops to fight in Syria but that the task should be given to mercenaries rather than members of the US armed forces. He was widely ridiculed even by the people of Fox
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Stephen Colbert looks at some of the people having ambitions of running for the presidency and their appearance at that reactionary love-fest known as the Values Voters Summit, and what some are saying about science, focusing on Bobby Jindal. I don’t know who will be the Republican nominee in 2016 but I am almost 100% certain it won’t be Jindal however much he panders to ignorance.
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Stephen Colbert could not resist talking about a topic that is ripe for ridicule and that is the fuss over the Muslim professional football player who prayed in the end zone after a touchdown, and made points similar to some of the ones I made earlier.
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It looks like Obama has declared open season on Syrian civilians, including women and children.
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The show Last Week Tonight continues its series of serious investigative journalistic pieces wrapped in humor and satire. This time it takes on the Miss America pageant, an American institution that deserves to be ridiculed, but he spares the contestants who are the usual butts (ha!) of the jokes in such pieces. Instead he focuses on the organization itself, its anachronistic nature, its hypocrisy, and its misleading claims about what it represents and the scholarships it gives away.
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