His show, " Redacted Tonight," has used the sharp irony of satire to try to challenge the flawed thinking that has dominated the political conversation. Political satirist Lee Camp honed in on the stupidity of this election early on. “In all of these cases, the candidates doubled or tripled down when pestered by reporters and fact-checkers and insisted they'd been victimized by biased media,” Taibbi wrote. He talked about Trump’s lie that he had seen thousands of people cheering after 9/11, Carly Fiorina's claiming that she had watched the harvesting of fetal brains and Ben Carson's making up classes that didn’t exist at Yale. ![]() And while the award for stupidity goes directly to the campaign of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and his supporters, it’s important to note that there is plenty of stupid to go around.īack in November 2015 as the primaries were hitting into gear, Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone, wrote a piece titled “America Is Too Dumb for TV News.” Taibbi focused on how this election had ushered in the era of lies without consequences. If there has been one constant this election it is that our collective political decision-making process suffers from profound ignorance. ![]() politics had come to be “dominated by people who make a virtue out of ignorance.” Riffing on the rise of former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and reflecting on the acceptance of morons like former vice president Dan Quayle, Monbiot wondered how it was that we had allowed our political scene to be dominated by “screaming ignoramuses.”Įight years later it seems clear that we were only just getting started. Back in 2008 only weeks away from the election of Barack Obama as president, British journalist George Monbiot wondered how U.S.
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