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Well, in case you were wondering if Sacha Baron Cohens still got it, the comedians 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 Cohens 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 shows extremely vague previously released promo, Who Is America? seems to be dropping on July 15.
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targetpractice
(4,919 posts)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)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.
underpants
(182,279 posts)Thanks
Bongo Prophet
(2,641 posts)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?