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America’s "Laurel and Hardy" Syndrome: Why am I not laughing?
by Open-Publishing - Thursday 28 September 20061 comment
Most of the world is familiar with Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, the two loveable "idiots" of comedic cinema. Well, now I’ve slapped their names on the totally obvious "syndrome" which so many Americans exhibit every day.
But it ain’t funny!
In many of their films Stan and Ollie, always the innocents, manage to be suckered by some scam which is so obvious to most viewers that we recoil in incredulity at the rank stupidity the two bafoons demonstrate!
In our country, the MEDIA has the straight con line and the American public somehow swallow it hook, line and sinker...almost every time...just like the two clowns.
We on the "Left" who realize what’s what, are the live audience viewing the shenannigans daily. We should be laughing.
But somehow it’s all so very, very sad.
The only cure I can offer for those with this deadly L&H Syndrome is to sit down and re-watch some of the old classic Stan and Ollie flicks and try to understand the way the disease works.
In the end you CAN laugh at yourself. It’s permitted.
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1 October 2006, 16:57
The Bush people are laughing too. All the way to the bank. Those multi-millionaire cowards are set for the rest of their lives, rolling in dough and laughing at the rest of the poor suckers that live in misery, working for slave wages and in a polluted world that Bush has created for the benefit of corporations. We hope to erase those smirks, grins and smiles from their stupid faces this November. Then we will wait to see who laughs.