[Magdalen] Satire

[Susan Hagen]

Snort!


On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 12:02 AM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On May 31, 2016, at 11:53 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
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> Subject: The Borowitz Report - - -  Satire
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> Stephen Hawking Angers Trump Supporters with  Baffling Array of Long Words
>  () LONDON  (_The Borowitz Report_
> (http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report) )—The theoretical physicist Stephen  Hawking angered supporters of
> Donald J. Trump on Monday by responding to a  question about the billionaire
> with a baffling array of long words.
> Speaking  to a television interviewer in London, Hawking called Trump “a
> demagogue who  seems to appeal to the lowest common denominator,” a statement
> that many Trump  supporters believed was intentionally designed to confuse
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> Moments  after Hawking made the remark, Google reported a sharp increase in
> searches  for the terms “demagogue,” “denominator,” and “Stephen Hawking.”
> “For a so-called genius, this was an epic fail,”  Trump’s campaign
> manager, Corey Lewandowski, said. “If Professor Hawking wants  to do some damage,
> maybe he should try talking in English next time.”
> Later in  the day, Hawking attempted to clarify his remark about the
> presumptive  Republican Presidential nominee, telling a reporter, “Trump bad man.
> Real bad  man.”
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