Notre Dame Prof Praises Comedians for ‘Refusing to Back Down’ From Trump
“John Oliver continues to amass colorful analogies for describing the president and his actions”
Am I missing something here? When have comedians ever backed off from Trump at all? Many of them suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome. They’re not even funny.
The College Fix reports:
Notre Dame professor praises ‘comedians’ for ‘refusing to back down’ from Trump
Oh, this is just what we needed: a professor of gender studies to lecture us about how important late-night comedians like Stephen Colbert, John Oliver, et. al. are, especially in the era of Trump.
Meet Perin Gürel, who teaches in Notre Dame’s Dept. of American Studies and researches “the United States in the world and the world in the United States through transnational feminist lenses,” according to her faculty page.
In a Tuesday article in The Conversation, Gürel claims that currently, “fear of reprisals” has made “many people cautious about expressing their opinions” about President Trump.
But the one group that “has refused to back down” is television’s late-night funny men.
Yes, seriously.
“Jon Stewart and the rest of ‘The Daily Show’ team, for example, have been scathing in their coverage of the Epstein case,” Gürel writes. “John Oliver continues to amass colorful analogies for describing the president and his actions. [And] after the ‘Late Show’ was canceled, ostensibly due to financial reasons, host Stephen Colbert was defiant: ‘They made one mistake – they left me alive!’”
As is usual with The Conversation, at some point the author includes a sentence indicating what an “expert” he/she is, and in this case Gürel’s says “I’m a scholar who examines the intersections between culture and politics and I teach a class on ‘Humor and Power.’”
(She also teaches the courses “Transnational America,” “Gender and Popular Culture,” “Islam and Feminism,” and “American Conspiracies.”)
Gürel (pictured) claims the “timeless” folktale “The Bird Indifferent to Pain” can “help us understand why comedy fans enjoy the annoying persistence of the jester, and explain why this trope has endured across cultures for centuries.”
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“Stephen Colbert was defiant: ‘They made one mistake – they left me alive!’”
This is how you know his narrative is bull*t — because if he believed it, he never would have pointed that out.
Colbert is a pimple on the ass of humanity, so small no one would even think to pop it. He’s alive because he’s insignificant and not even worth the electricity required to swerve an EV out of a traffic lane to run him over.
, “fear of reprisals”
Name a single reprisal. One, that’s all.
And the guy getting paid $20million a year to host a show losing $40 million a year who is not getting renewed is not a political reprisal, just in case you though it was.
Proving only that to be a progressive you must live a fantasy 24/7.
AWFL. Check.
Womyn’s Studies “scholar” (pronounced “BS artist”). Check.
Add points for: “American Studies”: Check.
Writing for “BS Gazette”: Double Check.
Wow—Professorette hit a grand slam on the DEI BS scale!
Perin Gürel” Gender Studies. American Studies. Grants from Turkish Institute.
Not an AWFL or fat black loud racist woman but completely worthless nevertheless.
Built in Shop Class from AAUP.
While the good professor Gürel is at Notre Dame, perhaps she might take an economics course and discover why company bosses don’t look kindly on money losing activities.
Me: So, Perin Gürel, what do you do for a living?
Perin Gürel: I teach in Notre Dame’s Dept. of American Studies and research the United States in the world and the world in the United States through transnational feminist lenses.
Me: That’s a very long-winded way of telling me you’re utterly useless.
PROVING that this is a leftists cause:
“Jon Stewart and the rest of ‘The Daily Show’ team, for example, have been scathing in their coverage of the Epstein case,” Gürel writes.
and with lefty
its not about justice
Yeah because I watch/listen to comedians many of whom barely graduated from high school to form my political and social opinions – NOT!
Be funny!
She needs to do Turkish comedians and their ‘President. ‘