{"id":180559,"date":"2017-03-16T19:09:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T00:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/03\/16\/this-must-have-been-what-it-was-like-to-watch-mort-sahl-implode-in-the-1960s\/"},"modified":"2017-03-16T19:09:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T00:09:00","slug":"this-must-have-been-what-it-was-like-to-watch-mort-sahl-implode-in-the-1960s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/03\/16\/this-must-have-been-what-it-was-like-to-watch-mort-sahl-implode-in-the-1960s\/","title":{"rendered":"This Must Have Been What It Was Like to Watch Mort Sahl Implode in the 1960s"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 330px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"186\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q_rTWxJepO8\" width=\"330\"><\/iframe><br \/><i>Stephen Colbert Opens Up a Can of Whup Ass on Rachel Maddow<\/i><\/div>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t watched Rachel Maddow since she gleefully revealed the straw poll of super delegates just before the California primary.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t the revelation per se, all of NBC clearly had orders to push the story, it was the glee with which she was telling California voters that that didn&#8217;t matter. <\/p>\n<p>Lately though, she has been going tinfoil hat in a way reminiscent of Mort Sahl&#8217;s decidedly unfunny fixation on the Kennedy assassination and the Warren Commission report, which wrecked the career of what had been the most promising comedian of the late 1950s.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been Russophobic baiting that would be worthy of the late, and unlamented, Roy Cohn.<\/p>\n<p>Now she&#8217;s completely jumped the shark in revealing Donald Trump&#8217;s 2005 1040 form, both pages, no details, and it reveals that he paid about 25% of his income in taxes.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been described as a, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/browbeat\/2017\/03\/15\/rachel_maddow_s_trump_taxes_scoop_was_a_cynical_self_defeating_spectacle.html\">Cynical, self-defeating spectacle<\/a>,&#8221; and the reporter who obtained the document, David Cay Johnston, said that he could not be sure that Trump hadn&#8217;t leaked the tax returns himself.<\/p>\n<p>Think about it:&nbsp; After over a year of allegations that he was basically broke, and that he paid no taxes, we discover, at least in 2005, he earned over $150 million, proving that he&#8217;s really rich, not fake rich, and that he actually paid a tax rate that makes him look honest.<\/p>\n<p>It really is pathetic, as Stephen Colbert&#8217;s devastating parody of her clearly shows.<\/p>\n<p>My theory is that Hillary supporters know that the f%$#ed up, but are unable to admit their guilt, and it&#8217;s driving them cray-cray, but I&#8217;m an engineer, not a psychiatrist, dammit!<sup>*<\/sup><\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">I <b><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-variant: small-caps;\">love<\/span><\/b> it when I get to go all Dr. McCoy!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Colbert Opens Up a Can of Whup Ass on Rachel Maddow I haven&#8217;t watched Rachel Maddow since she gleefully revealed the straw poll of super delegates just before the California primary. 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