Economist Lewis Black Tells It Like It Is

[babylonsister]

Economist Lewis Black Tells It Like It Is

by Mike Ferner | March 5, 2010 - 11:25am

ADULT CONTENT WARNING: If you're not familiar with Lewis Black, I'd turn back if I were you.


Lewis Black is funny. Dangerously funny. That he has such a large audience and still packs plenty of politics in his shtick gives one hope for the fate of our sorry species. So I figured it's time I learned something from him.

What I've learned is that since a million more of you pricks out there watch him than will ever read my stuff, I'm done with all the painstaking research and putting in links to original sources so you can see that I'm not making it all up. I don't have time any more. We're killing people in more countries than I can count and YOU want me to be fair and balanced and plus show you where all this shit comes from. Well, I'm sorry...if you don't believe me, LOOK THIS SHIT UP FOR YOURSELF!!

Here's a perfectly good example.

My favorite Lewis Black show is a Broadway HBO special from probably 10 years ago that I have on perfectly good VHS - YES, VHS - not one of those goddamnUSELESS DVDs that get stuck over and over and over and break up into crazy little squares whenever they want and some day will be more of a goddamn JOKE than 8-Track cassette tapes - he talks about what it would take to get the economy going after those greedy little shits from Enron and Global Crossing and Tyco made off with billions and threw thousands upon thousands out of work.

Then Lewis made a very courageous statement: "The economy goes up. The economy goes down. The economy goes up. The economy goes down...up...down...up...and NOBODY KNOWS WHY THE FUCK IT DOES!"

"THAT is really FUNNY," I thought! And that's what I've believed. Until last week. I was listening to NPR and a reporter was talking with the economist de jour about how to get the economy going after those greedy little shits from AIG and Citicorp and Goldman-Sachs made off with trillions and threw MILLIONS out of work...and there...right THERE on NationalPetroleumfuckingRadio the economist says, "Well, you know, Linda, nobody really knows what makes the economy do what it does..."

WHAT THE FUCK?!?!! So in other words, those greedy bastards in the Republican Party and those spineless bastards in the Democratic Party really have NO IDEA if tax cuts and bailouts will stimulate the economy! For all we know, we should be doing what Lewis said 10 years ago - enact a big, massive jobs program, put millions of people to work building transit systems or health clinics or parks or any fucking thing. As long as it's BIG and it's a fuckingTHING...and THAT would STIMULATE THE ECONOMY, TOOOO!!!

more...

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/27167/mike_ferner/economist_lewis_black_tells_it_like_it_is

[my2sense]

1. K & R

[tavalon]

2. Lewis Black is a smart and painfully funny man.

[yowzayowzayowza]

3. Link issue:

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You don't have permission to access /thread/27167/mike_ferner/economist_lewis_black_tells_it_like_it_is on this server.

Not seein another link on the google.

eta: looks to be a site issue.

[babylonsister]

4. Interesting because I just opened it-I don't know why you can't. nt

[yowzayowzayowza]

6. Weirdness.

Even with McAfee disabled, I get the same thing from both IE & Firefox. Hmmm....

Thx.

:hi:

[Dr.Phool]

5. Works here.

[Fire1]

7. I love the one that goes......"The republicans say, we have a

really shitty idea! Democrats respond, "And we can make it even shittier!!" LOL!!!!

[Po_d Mainiac]

8. Kick

:kick:

[Alcibiades]

9. We now have permanent prosperity

That's what the Bush tax cuts were supposed to accomplish, so they did. If anyone says otherwise, I reject their reality and substitute my own.

[unc70]

10. Rants R Us - UNC class of '70 - Lewis Black, me, lots more, ...

That was the title of the first post I saved to my journal; I did not want to forget buried deep in its thread. Might have a use later, maybe now as we get ready for our 40th reunion.

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/unc70/1

A couple of the older entries in my journal from late 2007 and early 2008 caught my eye enough that I looked at the discussions to see their context. A couple were related to Obama's comments about Reagan and about it being time for a new type of politics rather continuing to keep refighting the 1960's. A number of DUers had really accurate predictions and concerns about Obama, some deserving an appology, but too late for the ones now TSed. Still interesting looking back there.

In many cases, Lewis Black gives voice to my outrage. One favorite is what we learned from being taught "duck and cover".

Black lives parttime in Chapel Hill and recently lead workshops for student comedians plus jams with various professional ones from NY. I had planned to attend, but discovered that day that I couldn't. I don't know if some of the comics dealing with the snow in NY ever made it down here.