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Liberals! Satiricists! Call Out the Big Dogs!

By posted at 11:00 am on July 25, 2012 3

Steve Almond treks deeper into familiar territory in the latest issue of The Baffler, wherein the essayist takes on “our lazy embrace of [Jon] Stewart and [Stephen] Colbert,” an undoubtedly strong “testament to our own impoverished comic standards.” Indeed, Almond notes, our satirists and comics today remain “careful never to question the corrupt precepts of the status quo too vigorously.”

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3 Responses to “Liberals! Satiricists! Call Out the Big Dogs!”

  1. Will C.
    at 5:22 pm on July 25, 2012

    Steve Almond is an idiot and seems to completely acknowledge it in that essay.

  2. Glenn Murtz
    at 1:56 am on July 26, 2012

    Will strikes me as a troll who reduces “complex cultural issues to ad hominem assaults.” (Almond, S., “Liberals Are Ruining America. I Know Because I am One.” NY Times Magazine, June 8, 2012. Web.)

  3. Will C.
    at 10:13 am on July 27, 2012

    Glenn, not a bad quip. I was being a bit humorous, haha. But, Almond actually does discuss how much of an idiot he was/is, etc.

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