TUESDAY THOUGHTS: COMEDY IN THE NEWS: LARRY THE CABLE GUY

I actually purchased the very entertaining "Blue Collar Comedy Tour", and have watched it several times. 

I think the extremely country, beer-loving, fashion challenged, child-like, questionable wisdom-spitting Larry the Cable Guy is hilarious.

 

Daniel Lawrence Whitney, however, is an intelligent comedian and writer who hails from Nebraska. 

The character who has made him a wealthy man, is a parody. 

Larry may have been born out of experiences with real people, but he is not a real person! 

He is a persona of a particular educationally-challenged, opinionated, crass, bigoted southerner commonly, and even affectionately known as a "redneck".

Of COURSE Larry the Cable Guy endorses the Republican candidate! Who's surprised by that? A major news network thinks his pick for president (while in character) is news? 

(What has happened to journalism?)

This latest bit of entertainment is yet one more reason why I think the Republican candidate's campaign is all a joke--the success of which, has surprised even the candidate. 

It's success has necessitated enlisting an ever suspect cast of characters to continue the joke. 

I bet they all gather in the penthouse each night, and laugh their rich heads off, while opportunistic surrogates attempt to convince sober, thinking people of the logic and wisdom of his words and actions.

The Republican candidate deliberately says something outlandish, incendiary, and even untrue on a daily basis, and STILL has people who (at the cost of their own reputations, and the questioning of their own hearing, perception, reasoning and sanity) defend him. 

It's like all of the people who ran behind Forrest Gump, not knowing why, or how long he would run; and were left to find their ways back home when Forrest decided he'd run enough--because he was tired.

I wouldn't be surprised if the Trump campaign is a brilliant ruse concocted to implode the Republican party, expose the seedier side of America, reveal the true content of American hearts, and help usher into the White House, once again, (by a landslide) his dear, longtime friends and supporters, Hillary and Bill).

I can hardly wait to see the selfies of the power couples Trump and Clinton, as they toast their accomplishment. 

Larry will probably photobomb it...lol