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Ridicule is man's most potent weapon." Saul Alinsky
12/27/13,
"Comedy as a weapon of the left," Susan D. Harris, American Thinker
"How
is it that leftist mockery of conservatives became a staple of popular
culture? One of the major sources of the attitude that now pervades the
dominant media of our time is a man named Herbert Lawrence Block, aka
Herb Block, aka Herblock.
As
a political cartoonist, Herb Block used comedy and mockery with cunning
skill. Throughout his seventy-two year career, he helped influence the
political landscape through thirteen presidential administrations....
In
retrospect, Block's greatest nationally inflicted harm was mocking
America's response to Communism. Only six weeks after Joseph McCarthy announced he had a list of known Communists, Block began a propaganda campaign that would change American history forever....
Thanks
to people like Herb Block and his ilk, McCarthy became an American
laughingstock, allowing communism and socialism to become "cool" in
Hollywood, while Conservatives became unofficially "blacklisted."
Sixty years later his methods of using humor and sarcasm for social
influence are a template for those still seeking to destroy conservative
values.
Block's unyielding support of gun control and unquestioning belief in climate change
also succeeded in influencing public opinion. According to the Herb
Block Foundation, he won a total of four Pulitzer Prizes.
To help further his ideological legacy, the foundation awards its own 'Herblock Prize.' Among recent winners are editorial cartoonists for The Washington Post, Politico, and a weekly cartoonist for the Daily Kos political blog.... And while most of us hadn't heard of freshman
Senator Barack Obama in 2005, he was the guest speaker that year at the Herb Block Prize & Lecture Awards Ceremony.
..
How
did the Socialists and the Communists and the Progressives and the
liberals, and every name they go by, succeed in brainwashing Americans? One little joke at a time. Jokes filled with bitterness and lies that
spread through universities, office cubicles and bars across the country
and permeated the minds of low information voters....
.
In
this way, the greatest country in the world has been eaten from within
by agitators that have the emotional maturity of second graders. The
worst part is that we capitulated to these juveniles as we failed in
what should have been our parental-like roles as defenders of our
founding principles. We say, "Why take them too seriously, after all
they're only kids, right?" or "What harm can they do?"
.
We invoked no
authority nor enforced any discipline. We made the grave mistake of
deciding to be their friends instead of their teachers. Unfortunately
when we walked into the classroom, we found a chaotic revelry straight
out of Lord of the Flies. The children took control by ganging
up on everything that was right and decent and good and giving it the
Bronx cheer -- An infantile, but historically efficacious strategy
that
began, at least in part, at the end of Herb Block's pen."
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Among comments at AT:
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"liljenborg, a day ago: It's very simple really. When
you don't have logic, facts, or truth on your side, when you don't have
and actual argument, one of the easiest ways to make your argument is to
mock. You get multiple logical fallacies in one blow! Make your
opponent out to be an unthinking moron only an imbecile would listen to
and it doesn't matter how substantial his arguments might be. Distort
his position into a straw men more comical than Ray Bolger's portrayal
of the Scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz and your audience will cheer when
you knock it down instead of noting the insubstantial reasoning of your
actual position.
Humor, like music, cuts past one's rationality filters and strikes
directly at an emotional level. (I'm afraid of the naked emperor
thinking me a fool, so I will certainly compliment the cut of his new
clothes!) And since most people make decisions at an emotional level,
and then later rationalize their emotional conclusions, humor makes a
great tool for attacking one's opponent.
It's one of the reasons Rush Limbaugh is so reviled by the Left, he
has mastered their own technique of using humor to strike back, except
he does have logic, facts, and truth to back up his attacks, and that
only makes his humor more effective in eviscerating them."
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Added: Mocking scientific fact that excess CO2 only exists in China, a comedy show sells the billion dollar a day global warming scam:
In 2012 a North Carolina democrat thought ridicule by the Colbert comedy show proved that Americans were responsible for excess CO2 that only exists in China (what some call global warming):
""This bill has made us the laughingstock of the country," said Senate Minority Leader Martin Nesbitt, D-Buncombe. "We've been on Stephen Colbert's comedy show.""
6/13/12, "
North Carolina Senate Passes Anti-Nutcase Bill – AP Immediately Lies About It," Steven Goddard
6/12/12, "
N.C. Senate approves sea level calculation bill," AP. Allen Reed
(Leaving aside that
CO2 doesn't cause temperature increase to begin with.)
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Comedy sells terrorist beheaders and honor killers:
Comedian Jon Stewart of the Daily Show is praised by Islamists for mocking people who fear those whose religion allows stoning to death, chopping off hands, honor killing, and that remains silent about worldwide terrorism, beheadings, and the like:
(pages 13 and 14 of report):
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