[Magdalen] Satire

[Jay Weigel]

Borowitz rocks!

On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 10:08 AM, Susan Hagen <susanvhagen at gmail.com> wrote:

> Snort!
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> On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 12:02 AM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I love Borowitz!
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> > On May 31, 2016, at 11:53 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
> magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
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> > I thought this was especially amusing.
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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
> > them.
> > 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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> > (David Strang)
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> --
> The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among
> you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the
> land of Egypt.
> Leviticus 19:34
>