MORAL BLINDNESS AS ENTERTAINMENT

While I await my Mac's rebooting cycle (for about the fifth time today), I thought I'd pass along a couple of "jokes" that showed up in my inbox. Courtesty ShopTalk, a fine if reflexively leftish TV newsroom newsletter, comes a daily dose of "humor" from a "comedian" by the name of Alan Ray. Never heard of him? That might be because he isn't very funny. He's also morally obtuse to the point of uselessness. Here a couple of real zingers from today's ST:

Bush Falls: George Bush has slipped in approval ratings. He expected the decline. His leadership philosophy is, "You can scare some of the people some of the time, but you can't scare all of them all of the time." (Alan Ray - http://www.araycomedy.com)

Hitler Movie: CBS will air a movie about Adolph Hitler. They wanted a more contemporary look at tyranny. But the John Ashcroft Story is still in pre production.

Yuck, yuck, what a pair of thigh-slappers, eh. Bush, not the terrorists and their masters, is the one out to scare us all the time. John Ashcroft=Adolph Hitler. How droll.