Friday, February 7, 2014
Piers, Marc Lamont Hill, Ben Ferguson Battle over Seinfeld: Why Must Comedy Be PC-Pleasing?
Hill argued that Seinfeld’s “relying on a corrupted assumption,” that affirmative action and making a field more diverse means bringing in untalented people of different races when, in fact, it’s all about giving talented minorities a chance to be in the big leagues and impress people with their talents. Morgan insisted that it’s still a bad precedent for what’s supposed to be a free-wheeling, creative field.
“If you sit down with your American pie chart of cultural diversity in the country and divide up your humor quota for the show in a very specific, scientific PC-pleasing way, I got his point that in the end, you’re drifting away from what humor should be, which is spontaneous funny stuff.”
Holmes pointed out that humor comes from different cultural perspectives, ones that Seinfeld might not be personally aware of, while Ferguson rolled his eyes and said “not everything has to come down to race.” Morgan added that there shouldn't be this “compelling pressure of ‘you must be diverse in this manner.’”
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Wednesday, February 5, 2014
Bill Nye, Creationist Ken Ham Square Off in Post-Debate Battle over Evolution, Global Warming
Ham attributed the big snowstorms this week to how the world is “winding down,” and Nye, very respectfully, said he is “very skeptical” of any supernatural explanations for extreme weather and of anything having to do with a great flood.
Morgan took Ham on over the fact that despite the vast majority of climate scientists affirming the fact of global warming, a significant number of people remain skeptical. He also asked Ham about whether he believes that dinosaurs coexisted with man, which Ham said there is “a lot of evidence” to support.
Nye simply sighed and bemoaned how if many Americans remain scientifically illiterate, the next generation of young Americans will not be able to “embrace the process of science.”
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