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"How JFK would have liked to handle civil rights"

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Anonymous Kathy Shaidle said...

Tony Hendra -- the manager of Spinal Tap!

Also his daughter accused him of sex abuse or something

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20150594,00.html

11/22/13, 3:30 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Tony Hendra co-wrote what could've been The Great American Movie on Race, The Great White Hype.

Unfortunately, the original screenplay--which Hollywood muckamucks found too "racist"--was toned down 'til it became an intermittently entertaining piece of fluff.

Nonetheless, some of the acid cynicism of the original survives and shines out--Damon Wayans's preposterously out-of-shape, wastrel, one-time champ doesn't bother training for a title fight against a pretty-boy, Irish boy, claiming "my blackness will beat him."

11/22/13, 3:36 PM

Blogger Steve Sailer said...

"Also his daughter accused him of sex abuse or something"

Hendra's JFK parody has First Daughter Caroline always coming on to her daddy.

Glad I wasn't part of that family.

11/22/13, 3:36 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Isteve tropes ahoy!

11/22/13, 3:45 PM

Anonymous slumber_j said...

Yeah, the first Daley left office feet-first, unsurprisingly. I remember the news breaking in the middle of a MASH rerun or whatever nonsense I was absorbing at the time. Anchorman Walter Jacobson broke in to announce the news on CBS's WBBM-TV, ending his bit with what he described as an old Irish saying: "He had one foot in heaven before the Devil knew he was dead."

11/22/13, 5:55 PM

Anonymous explanation said...

in 1977 a humor mag, even if it was MAD, had to be more literary-minded in order to crank out units of satire. I remember one issue that even had "My kingdom for a horse" and other Shakespearean scenes converted into hip-hop lyrics (great art by Mort Drucker in it, too). Whereas today Jon Stewart or The Onion merely parody-emulate the existing self-serious media establishment. The Daily Show is actually nothing but clips from Fox, CNN, etc. Even the original of Stewart, SNL's "Weekend Update," depended on old-fashioned one-liners, rather than reacting to a "goofy video clip" twenty times a night. It's cheap sport.

11/22/13, 7:21 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

By the way, can you imagine The Onion today coming within an order of magnitude of what National Lampoon was doing three dozen years ago? It's not just a matter of The Onion's lack of courage, it's a matter of a decline in intellectual ability.

Sorry, but the intellectual horsepower just isn't there these days. Anyone with two neurons to rub together is out trying to make a buck, not wasting time with satire at something like the National Lampoon. Too bad for the college kids of today and the PJ O'Rourke's of tomorrow.

11/22/13, 7:26 PM

Anonymous Matthew said...

"By the way, the female energies that became feminism in our timeline are, in JFK's alternate universe, devoted to the worship of Presidential priapism."

Given the sexual voraciousness of the Kennedy's, how long will it be until everyone in America is descended from someone who slept with a member of the Kennedy clan? Three generations? Four?

11/22/13, 8:25 PM

Anonymous irishman said...

"Jack would have settled into the Irish politician's pattern of staying in power for roughly ever (e.g., Eamon de Valera, Richard J. Daley in Chicago, or James Curley, who was mayor of Boston on and off from 1914 to 1950);"

This is an American thing, not an Irish thing.
American politicians hang on forever. Irish politicians don't. Few make it over far over 60.

De Valera's career was an exception, he was Prime Minister from 32-48, 51-54, 57-59 and president from 59-73. But he was a figurehead from around 1950 onwards. He spent most of one of those years in the 50s when he was ostensibly in power in the Netherlands receiving treatment to try (unsuccessfully) to save his eyesight. You could compare it to Churchill's last term in office.

11/23/13, 12:02 AM

Anonymous YIH said...

By the way, can you imagine The Onion today coming within an order of magnitude of what National Lampoon was doing three dozen years ago?
No, of course not. For one thing if it (tried) to emulate National Lampoon it would be considered a pr0n site, nudity was not uncommon there.
Also Nat Lamp did comedy short stories, again not suitable for a comedy web site.

11/23/13, 5:48 AM

Anonymous YIH said...

BTW, It's doubtful that JFK could have been more than a two-term President. Despite his appearance he was generally in poor health, a heavy smoker, and likely taking Barbiturates to sleep (quite common at that time - see Marilyn Monroe) to counteract the Amphetamines he was often being shot with.
Had he not been assassinated, it's quite possible that he would have died in office before the end of his second term.

11/23/13, 6:07 AM

Blogger John said...

I think cable TV and then the internet destroyed peoples' minds. A lot of genius comes from not having all that much to do and to push off boredom. I remember Steve Vai explaining why he spent so much time practicing guitar. He just didn't have that much else to do after school. Similarly, your ability to read and write and detect nuances of language go down when you don't spend all that much time reading. Cable TV made reading an activity. But the past 150 years, reading was the substance of our lives. It was the natural environment of the mind.

11/23/13, 8:30 PM

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