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Sheer Contempt

Billy Beck: [1]

Go look at the video clip [2] that Nikoley has linked from Comedy Central: this is Stewart raking-over Field Marshal Rodham.

There has been some amount of noise lately over her sense of humor, what it might mean and what function it serves. Let me try to briefly explain something to you people:

laugh.jpg [3] This person is certainly not laughing with you, or for you. In this apparently compulsive display, there is a doubtless amount of calculation in dealing with questions that even incline to exposing her premises. (i.e.: “How do I make this unclear?”) In the overwhelming main, however, she is laughing at you.  Make no mistake about it: this is contempt.

Yes, quite so. Well, so much for the value of asking such people “the hard questions”.   It seems, that such tactics don’t work with people in domestic politics, any better than “asking the hard questions” of the Iranian president.

And yes, that is a comparison.  The implications of it should be apparent.   For one thing, I’m one who does understand it.   But, you’re right, those who do understand it for the threat it is, are too few.