Tom Lehrer said that political satire died when Henry Kissinger was awarded
the Nobel peace prize!
--On 16 October 2007 16:51 +0000 Jon Cloke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> The Gore problem is less a problem about Gore than it is about the need
> to find a white middle-class man to 'lead' an 'issue' before it becomes
> noteworthy, surely...? You could make the same criticism of Michael
> Moore, except that at least he takes a genuinely original view on a given
> topic and parcels it in a way that is both informative and entertaining.
> All Gore has done is to use existing data and critiques and wrap them in
> a package indistinguishable from himself, whilst using his contacts and
> power to distribute his 'message' in a suitably self-marketing way.
>
> In a similar way all those in Latin America who've taken part in the
> Social Forums, the indigenous peoples movements that've overthrown their
> own governments and the huge multiplicity of diverse civil society groups
> who are pushing what is referred to as the 'Pink Tide' in Latin America
> must be infuriated by the insistence by media and political groups on
> pinning their efforts to personality-cult-idols like Chavez, Morales and
> Castro...
>
> Jon Cloke
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