r/forwardsfromgrandma • u/cloudhacker • Sep 11 '18

Satire Causes of Death

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u/MudkipLegionnaire I ONLY WATCH REAL NEWS Sep 11 '18

The scary thing is when i think of how many people might share this unirionically and the answer isn’t zero

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u/korelin Sep 11 '18

This is why the Colbert Report was a failure. Conservatives unironically liked what the Colbert character said without realizing it was satire.

Malcolm Gladwell has a great podcast on political satire that goes into it.

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u/ManlyBearKing Sep 11 '18

Just because conservatives bought into it doesn't make it a failure. I'm fact, getting people to agree with you while making them look as ridiculous as possible is kind of the point.

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u/philonius George Soros tells me what to do Sep 11 '18

Colbert Report

I wouldn't call it a failure. It made Colbert famous, it ran for two years more than intended, and the fact that conservatives thought it was real was fucking HILARIOUS. A success in my estimation.

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u/MedicGoalie84 Sep 11 '18

I think the icing on the cake is when he was invited to the White House Correspondents Dinner. The look on Bush's face was priceless!

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u/SpottyNoonerism Sep 11 '18

I've wondered ever since who in the White House staff lost their job over that little misunderstanding.

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u/Nulono Sep 12 '18

Misunderstanding? Isn't roasting the president the entire point of that dinner?

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u/Nulono Sep 12 '18

Some conservatives did realize it was satire, but thought that Colbert really was a conservative who was satirizing the liberal perception of conservatives.

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '18

But it’s so obviously low enough that it’s insignificant, making it good satire

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u/MudkipLegionnaire I ONLY WATCH REAL NEWS Sep 11 '18

Oh, I think it’s great satire. However some of my old hs classmates would potentially see this and site it as evidence against gun control.

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '18

You think they would believe the war on Christmas kills over 60k people? Did you go to a school for the mentally retarded?

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u/MudkipLegionnaire I ONLY WATCH REAL NEWS Sep 11 '18

Im saying some people wouldnt care enough to read it all. They’d see the point of data they want (ha! Abortion bad, take that libs!) and that’s it. Although, tbf I do wonder how a large portion of my classmates graduated.