An excerpt from an interview, as quoted in The New York Times:
“If I had a show, I would have gone right after him. I would have said something like, ‘Hey, nice to see you. Now, let me ask you: what gives you the right to make fun of a human who is less fortunate, physically, than you are?’ And maybe that’s where it would have ended. Because I don’t know anything about politics. I don’t know anything about trade agreements. I don’t know anything about China devaluing the yuan. But if you see somebody who’s not behaving like any other human you’ve known, that means something. They need an appointment with a psychiatrist. They need a diagnosis and they need a prescription.”[I made this post before learning about the latest Donald Trump news.]
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With respect and greetings from a Jill Stein supporter, the Letterman quote is more than silly.
"Because I don’t know anything about politics. I don’t know anything about trade agreements. I don’t know anything about China devaluing the yuan."
If one knows nothing about politics, then such a speech is either without meaning or it is politics in television makeup, for the factual truth is that Letterman's whole stance is about support for the most "war hawk" candidate on my ballot of many more choices than just two, Mrs. Clinton.
Playing with words is all very "nice" (kudos to "Leddy’s Imaginary English Usage(2016)," but playing with words have brought us to fifteen years of continuing warfare in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Somalia and the Sudan -- so far -- not to mention significant friction with Russia over Syria. Not very nice, but very political.
Would that my vote for Senator Sanders and now Dr. Stein could change things. Letterman is not lettered. Or he is, and his is a theater of the absurd.
I didn’t hear so much support for Clinton in his words as disdain for and dismay about Trump. I think his I-don’t-know-a-heck-of-a-lot pose is probably close to how many voters do feel: when they look at Trump (especially in light of yesterday’s news), they see someone who is not fit to be president.
Before seeing your comment, I was out on a walk listening to a podcast, an episode of Criminal about psychopathy. Moving down the psychopathy checklist, it is difficult not to see both major-party candidates in the descriptions.
By the way, I’ve changed the title of my imaginary book. (One of the advantages of the book being imaginary.)
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