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Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
Fair 'nough, but they didn't pick the location that would have created the greatest shock for their audience. Everyone basically expects the urban poor to suffer outrageously in India.
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Maybe so, but I think what they were drawing attention to was the fact that she raised all this money by playing on the conditions of the people she was conciously keeping in squalor and then taking that money and using it for something completely different. So, showing the worst conditions, in the places where she spent the majority of her time served them well.
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Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
Well, (i) I though it was effective, but I wouldn't rate it as "very," (ii) given that their audience is more you and me than people fond of admiring the holier-than-thous of the world, I think the segment could have been better aimed for their actual audience, and (iii) I thought including Ghandi (horndog with a school girl/enema fetish) and the Dalai Lama (basically a later-day deposed Shah in an orange sheet) underplayed by association the extent to which Mother Theresa was, not just not-holier-than-thou, but a real monster who not only caused but openly rejoyced in the suffering and death of multitudes.
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I can agree with that. But I don't think they wanted to bombard you with the hypocrisy or atrocities to show you just how unholier-than-thou any one person in that group was. I think that they wanted to point out examples of how these people are just like you or worse -- the theory being, if you can show that someone who is revered by so many people as beyond reproach is no better than you in many ways, you will see that holding them up as holier-than-us is bullshit.
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Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
I love the show, mind you, I just thought that one was weaker than most of the others. The circumcision season opener, for example, totally kicked ass. The old dude hanging dumbells from his dork was a complete riot.
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I thought the one about colleges was the worst. They really didn't say anything besides, "college is too pc." And my attitude on that is, big fucking deal. Reality comes with the diploma, four short years away.
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