Comments on: An Assessment of Guelph’s Finances http://www.ward4guelph.ca/2009/10/21/an-assessment-of-guelphs-finances/ Community Information Portal Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:52:29 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Bill D http://www.ward4guelph.ca/2009/10/21/an-assessment-of-guelphs-finances/comment-page-1/#comment-45748 Bill D Thu, 26 Nov 2009 22:42:10 +0000 http://www.ward4guelph.ca/2009/10/21/an-assessment-of-guelphs-finances/#comment-45748 The difference between Colbert and Barker is that everyone recognizes Colbert as a satirist and comedian. But some people actually think Barker is a journalist and believe what he is writing is truth. That's not funny, it's downright dangerous. The difference between Colbert and Barker is that everyone recognizes Colbert as a satirist and comedian. But some people actually think Barker is a journalist and believe what he is writing is truth. That’s not funny, it’s downright dangerous.

]]> By: Konrad http://www.ward4guelph.ca/2009/10/21/an-assessment-of-guelphs-finances/comment-page-1/#comment-45452 Konrad Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:05:56 +0000 http://www.ward4guelph.ca/2009/10/21/an-assessment-of-guelphs-finances/#comment-45452 Fishman, I think you're mistaking the right's "great support" for "Steven [sic] Colbert" with "being not so self-serious as to be unable to chuckle at a caricature of their own beliefs/values" - something the left could learn from. And Meathead's naïvety was a critique, too. Fishman,

I think you’re mistaking the right’s “great support” for “Steven [sic] Colbert” with “being not so self-serious as to be unable to chuckle at a caricature of their own beliefs/values” – something the left could learn from. And Meathead’s naïvety was a critique, too.

]]> By: Fishman http://www.ward4guelph.ca/2009/10/21/an-assessment-of-guelphs-finances/comment-page-1/#comment-44109 Fishman Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:27:19 +0000 http://www.ward4guelph.ca/2009/10/21/an-assessment-of-guelphs-finances/#comment-44109 What is fascinating about Steven Colbert (and perhaps even Gerry Barker) is that he has great appeal with both the "right" and the "left". No one has been able to garner such great support from these two disparate camps since the good old days of the not-so-bright conservative, Archie Bunker. The right takes the faux conservatism of Colbert seriously while the left laughs along to it. Surely someone so clearly educated on issues, so passionate about the topics he speaks, cannot be truly serious. Yet some think he is. He successfully engages the right while simultaneously skewering the absurdism of conservatism. What I find most interesting is the right's inability to recognize when they are truly wrong (not to suggest that they are always wrong). They are so convinced of the fundamentals of their beliefs, even recognizably absurd or stupid expressions (or viral emails full of misinformation) of those beliefs are appealing to them. What is fascinating about Steven Colbert (and perhaps even Gerry Barker) is that he has great appeal with both the “right” and the “left”. No one has been able to garner such great support from these two disparate camps since the good old days of the not-so-bright conservative, Archie Bunker.

The right takes the faux conservatism of Colbert seriously while the left laughs along to it. Surely someone so clearly educated on issues, so passionate about the topics he speaks, cannot be truly serious. Yet some think he is. He successfully engages the right while simultaneously skewering the absurdism of conservatism.

What I find most interesting is the right’s inability to recognize when they are truly wrong (not to suggest that they are always wrong). They are so convinced of the fundamentals of their beliefs, even recognizably absurd or stupid expressions (or viral emails full of misinformation) of those beliefs are appealing to them.

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