From: pmurphy21@comcast.net   
      
   nebusj-@-rpi-.edu (Joseph Nebus) wrote:   
      
   >pmurphy21@comcast.net (Patrick J. Murphy) writes:   
   >   
   >>On tonight's episode of Countdown, Keith Olbermann congratulates Joel   
   >>on his birthday (last Wednesday), and calls MST3K the best source of   
   >>political and societal satire on TV (not an exact quote).   
   >   
   >	Great catch, although I did miss Keith Olbermann since, well,   
   >there's this whole problem I have with watching the cable news channels.   
   >   
   >	I don't think I'd describe much of Joike and Crew as doing   
   >politial or social satire, though.  Making fun of the many absurd or   
   >sometimes outrageous things people do, certainly, but that doesn't   
   >reach the level of being ``satire'' as I would take it.   
      
   Yeah, I agree.  Just quoting,   
      
   It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a   
   good fortune must be in want of some smackdown laid on his sorry ass.  - Stone   
   Cold Jane Austen   
      
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