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tenderfoot

(8,424 posts)
Mon Jul 9, 2018, 11:29 AM Jul 2018

Dick Cheney Signs a Waterboarding Kit in a New Promo for Sacha Baron Cohen's Showtime Show

Well, in case you were wondering if Sacha Baron Cohen’s still got it, the comedian’s new Trump-skewering Showtime series, which appears to be titled Who Is America?, just dropped a new promo in which his (still as-yet unseen) journalist character asks former vice-president Dick Cheney to sign a waterboarding kit, which Cheney does with a smile. Now why, in this year of our Lord, in this time in American politics, after more than two decades of faux political comedy shows humiliating their interviewees, would Dick Cheney agree to jokingly sign a waterboard kit in front of a television camera? The answer would seem to be Cohen’s unflagging ability as an interviewer. That, and the fact Dick Cheney has continued to be a vocal proponent of waterboarding, so why not have some goof-around fun with it? Wa wa wee wa, indeed. According to the show’s extremely vague previously released promo, Who Is America? seems to be dropping on July 15.


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Dick Cheney Signs a Waterboarding Kit in a New Promo for Sacha Baron Cohen's Showtime Show (Original Post) tenderfoot Jul 2018 OP
Hanlon's Razor... targetpractice Jul 2018 #1
That's always been a favorite of mine unblock Jul 2018 #2
I had never heard of that. underpants Jul 2018 #3
Hanlon's razor isn't as sharp as proponents think it is Bongo Prophet Jul 2018 #4
Excellent! n/t targetpractice Jul 2018 #5

targetpractice

(4,919 posts)
1. Hanlon's Razor...
Mon Jul 9, 2018, 11:47 AM
Jul 2018

I've always suspected this... Cheney isn't evil... He's utterly incompetent...

Hanlon's razor is an aphorism expressed in various ways, including: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

Sacha Baron Cohen brilliantly proves this.

unblock

(51,974 posts)
2. That's always been a favorite of mine
Mon Jul 9, 2018, 12:10 PM
Jul 2018

It sounds snarky and insulting but it's actually generous.
If someone does something hurtful, it's actually polite to assume they just didn't realize the implications.

Bongo Prophet

(2,641 posts)
4. Hanlon's razor isn't as sharp as proponents think it is
Mon Jul 9, 2018, 12:40 PM
Jul 2018

Quite often it is not an either/or. Dualistic, simplistic, and fails to recognize that evil and incompetence/stupidity are often very intermingled in a person or situation. Just think about it for a moment.

Maybe Hanlon should use Dunning-Kreuger shaving cream. Might help?

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