Re: Magic Menstrual Mummies

On Tue, 24 May 2011, [email protected] wrote:

> > Why should Schaeffer get any more derision for mocking than Steyn, 
> > Hewitt, Stewart, >Limbaugh or any other?
>
> I was going to point that out.  Pretty much all satirists are paid to 
> mock.  It seems to me people only find mockery distasteful when the 
> target is their own group.  It's okay to mock Republicans, not 
> democrats, it's okay to make fun of liberals, not conservatives.

To reiterate:  The problem here is not that Schaeffer mocks *our* own 
group, but that he mocks *his own family*.

Steyn, Stewart and the others all take aim at public targets, and they all 
have to prove that they are just as up-to-speed on these public targets as 
all the other satirists.  They compete, as it were, on even turf.

Schaeffer, on the other hand, is a pure product of nepotism: someone who 
claims special insider knowledge that no one else can have, and who claims 
that his mockery is somehow "better" or more privileged than the mockery 
of others, because nobody else has the insider knowledge that he has.

Frank Schaeffer, in other words, is basically just the evil twin of 
someone like Franklin Graham.  Graham is a former problem child who ended 
up becoming a complete toe-the-liner -- albeit one who seems to be 
inclined to toe the Religious Right's line more than his own father's. 
Schaeffer, on the other hand, is a former problem child who apparently 
decided to turn *against* a lot of what his father stood for.  But 
Schaeffer is pandering to his own constituency just as much as Graham is. 
And both of them are claiming a special right to define their fathers' 
legacies, simply by virtue of that family connection.

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