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Posts Tagged ‘Jon Stewart

Bending It Like Beck

April 28, 2011

    Not, “Bend it like Beckham,” a film of both drama and good humor about a dude, David Beckham by name, and his skill at free-kicks that curve, or bend, past walls of soccer defenders.     This is about Glenn Beck, he of rapidly receding fame while his infamy grows. Beck is good at bending […]

Breaking the Political Fever with Humor

October 14, 2010

If ever the American electorate went mad, this is the moment. People have scoured the past for prior insanity but came up short. The 1960s were close, considering Vietnam, the Nixon era and Watergate, not to forget the Generation Gap, a renewal of the Civil War’s “father against son, brother against brother”–not to mention the […]