Saturday 6 September 2014

Sacred Cow

It is disappointing to see spiked going all hagiographical about Joan Rivers.

A bog standard New York ultraliberal, nothing remotely to do with any kind of British Left (or with the long-forgotten, largely New York Jewish, Left that once existed in America), her act was considered completely unthreatening by the big money backers of Ronnie and Dubya.

For decades, she performed for them like a monkey. If her material was even so much as remotely challenging, then they certainly never noticed, and they have been loudly failing to notice all over the Internet since she died.

Such things as that Mark Twain Award gala night for George Carlin: who bought those tickets? Who do you think? In which case, how daring was he, either? Or any of them?

It all was and is as fake as the utterly Establishmentarian "satire boom" of Britain in the early 1960s.

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  1. Last night you were tweeting about Joan Rivers and Neil Fleming being the same person. Wrong, Joan was a million times cleverer but nowhere near as camp and bitchy.

    "New York ultraliberal, nothing remotely to do with any kind of British Left" would sum him up if he knew what any of the words meant.

    Loved, loved, loved that tweet saying if Maggie Thatcher and Jimmy Savile had had a kid, it would have looked like Damian Thompson. So true it hurts.

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  2. As ever Peter Hitchens summed it up perfectly last weekend.

    ""The only interesting things about Douglas Carswell’s switch from the Tory Party to Ukip are that it took him so long and that he has acted alone.""

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    1. Oh, no, the fact that it found his views "a perfect fit" is hugely important.

      On topic, please.

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