Last Night’s Late Night Fairness Check
by Tim SlagleI was curious. Obama jokes on Late Night TV, have been as rare as a smoking lounge in an airport. I wondered how the shows would do. (Certainly the writers know that their bias has been detected.) Would they turn their comedy knives against Obama with the same wild abandon they used on the previous President? The short answer: Maybe.
The only no-show of the night was David Letterman, who opted for a re-run. Jay Leno, Jimmy Kimmel, Conan O’Brien, Craig Ferguson, Jon Stewart, and Stephen Colbert all weighed in last night with attempts at presidential humor.
The two topics universal throughout all the shows were Aretha Franklin’s hat and Dick Cheney’s wheelchair. Jon Stewart suggested that Aretha was wrapped up like a present and Jimmy Kimmel speculated that it was capable of flight. As for Dick Cheny’s Wheelchair: Craig Ferguson and Kimmel both suggested that it was the result of a pact with Satan; Jon Stewart and Jay Leno thought he should be petting as cat like Dr. Evil; Conan O’Brien suggested, that he looked like Mr. Potter from the Frank Capra classic.
Both Conan and Stewart took Obama’s biblical quote: “The time has come to set aside childish things.” for an opportunity to do some introspection. Conan retired three childish jokes and John Stewart giggled at corespondent Samantha Bee who looked at all the Balls in Washington. (Craig Ferguson also made a similar reference.)
For those of you who read my last post, and were curious, only Leno and Kimmel mentioned the botched oath of office.
The surprise of the evening came from Jon Stewart. He did a bit where he contrasted lines from Obama’s speech and found them surprisingly similar to lines that George W. Bush once uttered.
There are very few signs the writers will stop using President Bush as a material source. Conan and Stewart suggested that the exiting President might have pulled some kind of prank on Obama. (Ironic, considering the squalid condition George Bush found the White House in back in 2001.) Sarah Silverman composed a mostly unfunny goodbye to President Bush video for Keith Obermann’s show. Leno claimed the Obama Spider-Man comic book might help the President understand the transition and Conan said it was soooo cold the Bush approval rating hit minus 13.
All the hosts were tremendously self conscious about making fun of the new President. One of the funnier bits of the night was Jimmy Kimmel going into a black barbershop with a notepad to ask permission from actual black people on comedy topics that would be acceptable. Their first suggestion was making fun of Obama because he cannot dance. Strange, most comedians have been suggesting that he was the first President that could. Correspondent Wyatt Cenac even alluded to that on Stewart’s show in a segment about Obama as the first cool President*. Tim Meadows, (as PK Winsome) on Stephen Colbert also touched on the racial aspect of the new administration by making fun of a recurring question he hears from white journalists.
On a laugh scale, Colbert probably scored the lowest. He watched moments from the Inauguration, so touching and patriotic, that even a hard right wing Republican like himself burst into tears. Craig Ferguson was probably the funniest monologue of the night and the comic most willing to do Obama material.
On a whole I give all the late night hosts a C for the evening. They’re still way too apprehensive about making fun of the new president. I’m reminded of the scene from the movie “2001,” where the apes kept circling the monolith, and grunting; afraid to actually touch it.
I don’t blame them. In my lifetime, I’ve never seen a more monolithic President.
* I speculated that Obama was ruining the stereotype way back in July, when I gathered with three other comics on the Jerry Agar Show to make Obama jokes for a full hour. Here’s the news clip on my website about that show.
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I have to admit, as much as I despise Jon Stewart about 90% of the time, the wheelchair bit was pretty funny. Predictable, but funny.
Ditto on the speech comparisons, which was kind of a shocker. Note the whole thrust was essentially ‘Daily Show’ criticism coming from the Left, tho. As in Obama being scolded for pandering to the Right.
Most of these comedians are unable to make fun of Barry O! because their humor is rooted in hatred and mockery. They really do believe all the press (themselves) that Barry O! is the best thing since crayolas.
There will not be an end to Bush/Cheney jokes. These people have very little imagination. Letterman and Leno are still using Clinton intern jokes, for crying out loud. But, no, their caricatures of Bush and Cheney are too easy and too self-affirming for the smirking set to be set aside.
The real question is whether they will makes jokes at Obama’s expense. The answer: yes, but they won’t really cut. Stewart’s effort last night was really a Bush slam: Obama sounds just like Bush, but maybe it’s OK because he probably doesn’t really mean it.
The senseless, juvenile rage of BDS has to have somewhere to go. Bush/Cheney have been the psychological repository for all negativity in the world, and that cannot simply be set loose with no object for it to rest on. Bush/Cheney/Palin/Republican stereotypes will continue to be front and center simply because there will be nothing to replace it. After the old scapegoats begin to get stale and boring, what will they come up with then? Who will be the scapegoat for their rage then? That will be interesting to watch.
OK, I watched/listened to the clip: who was the guy at the far right of the table? He had funny.
Obama is not funny. Dangerous and scary, but not funny. Entertainers will mock at their own risk. BHO’s followers will not allow it. Jokers beware. His worshippers and henchmen won’t get mad, but they will get even. And they will know where you live, and your parents, and where your kids attend school and your home phone numbers, because they now have access to all that information. The takeover has only just begun.
I saw Stewarts show and it was hilarious especially the Samantha Bee thing and the back and forth with Jason Jones about the likings of the speeches.
The pic with this article reminds me, the audiobook version of Jon Stewart’s book is hilarious. Stephen Colbert and a bunch of other Daily Show types are on as well, it’s well worth a listen.
I think Brian Williams and Jay Leno summed up their attitudes regarding Obama and making jokes about him on a recent Williams appearence. They both lamented that he was just too “perfect”. Their word not mine.
All the humor regarding Obama that I’ve seen up to this point have been jokes about people around him, but never him.
Personally I find Obama a very stiff and awkward person, especially when it comes to having to talk about anything outside of politics, rivaling even Algore.
“Red Eye” is pretty much going to have the Obama joke field all to itself for at least the next 6-8 months, as far as doing any sort of humor that has any bite to it.
Stewart and The Daily Show people and even Kimmel seem to realize that their political humor is going to start to look as bad as mayonnaise left out in the sun for three days if they do nothing but Bush, Cheney, Palin, and maybe a few Ann Coutler put-downs to go along with a bunch of toothless Obama jokes or fish-in-a-barrel jabs at the lameness that is Joseph Biden. But Kimmel’s barbershop bit showed that in Hollywood (or New York), the writers are frightened out of their minds about being the next Barry Blitt or David Remnick, the poor cartoonist and editor of The New Yorker who were 110 percent behind Obama when they did that cover last spring trying to make fun of conservatives, and ended up being branded as racists by the humorless PC police of the left.
Write a joke that’s both funny and rings true about a screw-up by Obama now and you could be branded as an Enemy of the State by those same people. They might do the same thing to “Red Eye”, but since they already would shut down Fox News if they could, the line it would have to cross to get in trouble is far further away than what some comedian or writer working for the big networks or Comedy Central have to worry about, since their bosses are in the tank for Barack and think their audiences should be, too.
Fairness? Comedy is about fairness? You guys are only going to be happy if comedians make as many jokes about Obama as they did about Bush? Man you guys are going to be disappointed!
Obama is so boring! The comedians will be struggling to come up with material about him! Bush was a comedy goldmine!
I’ve given up on Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert ever being funny again (I like to call it Bill Maher Syndrome). Letterman needs to retire as well. Leno, O’brien, and Ferguson are the best bet for seeing something that is actually funny instead of being ideological rants. Red Eye may someday be funny in it’s own right, but for now it’s more a diversion than it is comedy. There really is a vacuum in the comedy world right now. I can’t think of a single person I’d pay to see live. The next Sam Kinison, Richard Pryor, or George Carlin won’t be afraid to take on Obama (or anyone else). Unfortunately, it could be a while.
Maybe the reason these guys don’t make fun of Obama or democrats in general, is that their heart is just not into the task. It’s much easier to make fun of someone you detest or loathe.
“Certainly the writers know that their bias has been detected.”
you’d be amazed at what writers don’t know.
I’m still trying to figure out how President Bush could pull a prank on President Obama. Ain’t Dubya done so stoopid? Coin must have come up “Bush as evil genius.”
LOL. This site is too funny. A group of people severely challenged in the art of humor criticize comedians for not being politically correct by not telling the jokes they would like to hear — which of course are not funny. But by not using material that is not funny and sanctioned by the humorless people on this thread, the comedians who have an audience should retire because people with no sense of humor don’t find them funny.
LOL. Maybe comedians will start reading this thread for material. This site is a thousand laughs.
Hey Numbers Dude — You think a president who appoints a guy who cheats on his taxes to be head of the IRS isn’t material a few jokes or two? If not, then congratulations, you’re now an official network TV Obamaphobic comedy writer who has to be on his or her knees praying right now that Barack keeps Joe Biden in the public spotlight so they’ll have some sort of non-stale political humor to do for the first half of 2009.
(And don’t think even the most liberal of the comedy writers and show hosts don’t know where the Obama jokes are buried — Hint: It’s in one of the 57 states. But they’re just frightened out of their minds that they’ll be writing or performing in late-night infomercials a year from now of one of their Obama jokes brings the PC Nazis down on their case).
Dusty, thank you for proving my point. Jokes have to be current, and they have to be funny. You want the liberal joke writers to write the jokes you want to hear, but — you don’t understand comedy. You aren’t funny. Sorry to break it to you, little buddy.
AMERICAN ME:
The only accessories lacking were two end-tables glued to her hips.
I saw them there. At least I think those were end tables.
FRANK:
In 1929 when the stock market crashed FDR went on Television to calm the American Public.
Was he in his wheelchair then?
MG —
I won’t go by tonight’s late night shows, since I missed them due to work. But Timothy Geithner is still awaiting confirmation as Treasury Secretary — the man in charge of the IRS — and he blamed his filing problems on getting confused about Turbo Tax. Just saying that is funny. And how many jokes could well-paid writers come up with simply by throwing in something about replacing Geithner with Bernie Madoff or an H&R Block accountant.
This is the guy Barack picked to handle our nation’s finances. And his nomination is an ongoing story before Congress. But as of at least Tuesday, the network comedians have pretty much been avoiding the thing like the plague, because they’re wary of getting on the wrong side of the wrong people, for whom as of now, Obama can do no wrong.
I used to watch late-night shows a lot until last year. I endured months of “old age” jokes about McCain, “stupid” jokes about Palin and Bush, and pantsuit jokes about Hillary, even some Bill Clinton jokes. Then I’d wait…and wait…for an Obama joke – but nothing. Biden? This man had a gaffe a day! But nothing. Leno had a couple of skits with a black guy playing Obama, which were pretty funny, but always offset by a fake crazed Hillary. I completely stopped watching Letterman, who has become a sarcastic, bitter, creepy old codger. Kimmel is pretty funny, but all of them spout the same old BS from the MSM. The first late night comedian (except Letterman) who can come up with some good jokes I will watch. In the meantime, I’d rather watch reruns of “Frazier.” Fairness…what a joke!
I’m another humorless, hateful liberal? LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL.
You all are funniest when you are not trying to be funny.
Like Aristotle, or Cicero, or one of those ancient dudes said, there is the speaker, the message and the audience. Late night TV considers its audience, mostly young, urban, and diverse. Ratings would go down if late night comedy tried to be white, rural and regional. The audience wouldn’t get the jokes. Maybe the conservatives should launch their own comedy shows on the RFD channel.
So you say that most audiences of late night are young, urban, and diverse…read inexperienced, pretentious downtown crawlers, and minorities yea that’s about right. The same dumb demographic that voted for this a–hat. Most of us white, rural, regional types have JOBS and have to get up pretty early to get to said jobs and therefore we don’t watch much late night tv. Add to that that ever since Johnny Carson left the scene there haven’t been any shows worth watching in this time slot. You invoke Aristotle or Cicero (you don’t know which one) like that is some indication of your oh so erudite sophistication. Take it from this Texas woman honey and get your references straight before trying to dazzle us with your bs. To quote my grandad “you can dazzle them with brillance, or baffle them with bs”. I suspect you of being in the latter category.
You know I like the idea of launching our own comedy show but BHO would come in and attach the fairness doctrine to it and that would be that so why bother? Now go back to your accounting sheets little troll and don’t try to play with the grown ups.
These comedians will work on Bush for as long as the folks laugh, which may only be weeks at most. The past gets forgotten pretty quickly when it comes to topical humor.
As for BO jokes, the potential is there but the race card hangs in the background. Tread lightly or you will be called the big R. Names are a powerful tool for keeping us in our place.
“… mostly young, urban, and diverse …”
Er, most of the country is ‘urban’, so you can also describe an audience that is mostly urban as ‘lowest common denominator’. ‘Young’ simply means they don’t have to get up all that early to go to a real job, or that they don’t yet have any children to wear them out. And diverse? Two-thirds of the country is white, and yet a greater percentage of the audience for late-night television is white. Hardly a ‘diverse’ audience.
Perhaps you should stick to sitting on your behind doing mathematics other people discovered and leave the social commentary to those who have a talent for it.
By the way, did you know that 80% of scientists/engineers polled in 2006 believed the Iraq War was hopeless and a lost cause? Even journalists and professors only polled at around 60% (and other professions were even lower). Scientists/enginners (and mathematicians) absolutely stink when it comes to anything non-technical. They can predict correct social outcomes only in a stopped-clock kind of way, which is the best way to place your thought processes in context.
Sorry, Math Guy. You’re in over your head. Don’t worry, though, some comedians agree with you about Obama & Bush. That MUST mean you’re all correct, cuz television = reality. No?
LOLOL. Lighten up, little buddies. You complain about humor that doesn’t appeal to you, but all you do is spew hatred. Think there may be a correlation there somewhere? Maybe you all don’t have a sense of humor.
Honey in Texas, I believe Aristotle focused on what the speaker was saying. Cicero, as you probably know, said the persuasive man was the moral and ethical man speaking well. The concentration on the audience is more modern, market research and all that. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. I’m just pointing out that the people posting on this thread probably don’t watch late night TV, which honey in Texas confirms.
So, you want to censure what other people are watching? You all sound like a bunch of Stalinists. I’m sorry that your party may become extinct, but it may be because you all are so far out of the mainstream. This is a capitalist system. If you want to start a political humor program, go right ahead. The one that Fox News started bombed, because it wasn’t funny.
When Obama was on the Daily Show, he was asked if his white half could vote for a black president. LOL. The problem you reactionaries have is that you don’t want humor, you want ridicule. That is why the Fox program failed.
Maybe we can get the federal government to sponsor a program of remedial comedy to help conservatives develop a sense of humor. Is that something you all would be in favor of?
Heh.
How funny is it that Math Guy mangles Aristotle and Cicero while committing one of the most fundamental logical errors possible, confusing correlation with causality, without even really demonstrating correlation.
He gets the basic demographics of late night TV wrong. He doesn’t understand logic or Greek philosophy. He doesn’t know who Stalin really was or what a Stalinist really is. He doesn’t even understand what the word ‘conservative’ means.
But hey, people on TV tend to agree with him, as do people who get their intellectual and social cues from television, therefore he knows all about ‘capitalism’ and ‘reactionaries’ and Texas and the Iraq War and global warming.
Or maybe he’s just not too smart ….
Oh well. Politicians need SOMEONE to chant mindless slogans.
Actually, Math Guy… you’ve got it backwards…
“So, you want to censure what other people are watching?”.
Heck, to me the irony is that the comedians are already censuring themselves, because they’re terrified what could happen to them by the party that is in power (you know, that party that starts with a “D”?). The liberals in power and you’re seeing them already doing to themselves what they accused the Republicans of “wanting” to do them.
There was no fear of “reprisal”, because the conservative/Republicans were never going to actually go “Stalinist” on them, and they knew it. But they’re afraid the liberals/Democrats could
I missed most of the late night stuff last night unfortunately.. (I’m an admitted Daily Show and Kimmel fan…),… so I’m hoping the Kimmel skit was a hint that Kimmel will be one of the ones that won’t be afraid to pull his punches when it comes to President Obama.
Dude, apes?? Mayhaps you should have accompanied Kimmel.
“Math Guy, most conservatives wouldn’t be interested in your oh so cute idea of a government program in remedial comedy. Unlike the left, we don’t go for government hand-outs.”
That’s why I thought that was funny. Comic irony, you know.
“math guy, do you honestly believe that comedians are not cracking jokes about Obama because he is just “too perfect” and hasn’t provided any political comedy fodder? No sarcasm intended, serious question.”
Obama has been president for one day. Bush had a record. He was president for eight years. Also, after 9/11, there weren’t many Bush jokes. Maybe you are in denial, but Bush and Co. got caught in a lot of lies and demonstrated serious ineptitude in office. We are in a serious economic crisis, and right now most people want to support the president. If Obama becomes a doofus, there will be jokes. Maybe not for old men, because all the great old comedians are dead, but there will be jokes.
“How funny is it that Math Guy mangles Aristotle and Cicero while committing one of the most fundamental logical errors possible, confusing correlation with causality, without even really demonstrating correlation.”
LOL. Now that’s funny.
AE — Last time I checked this is a free country, we have free speech in this country. If you think you can write Obama jokes that people what to hear, that is fine and dandy. Do it. But the joke writers on TV shows don’t work for you. And you don’t have the power to say what their material should be. If you want to boycott, as some have said, go ahead.
It is kind of funny that people who don’t watch late night television are going to boycott late night television, but then again, my point is that most of the posters here don’t seem to have a sense of humor.
AE — Maybe you get only one channel out there in the boonies, but my modern satellite system receives over several hundred channels. If you can’t find something to watch, well — maybe you can’t find something to watch.
Seriously, the writers aren’t going to call you up and ask what to write. Besides, why would they want to suck?
Timothy Geithner received committee approval today to become the next Secretary of Treasury. Mr Geithner says that his first act in office will be to transfer the entire world economy accounting to Quicken.
BTW, did anyone see that Mr. Geithner received his start at Kissinger and Associates?
On the one hand you tell us that we have no right to opinions on late night talk shows because we never watch them then you tell us that there are several hundred channels to watch if we don’t like late night tv. What do you think we are doing doofus? Lefties like yourself like to go where you aren’t challenged and to be in your own comfortable little Liberal world so your wheelhouse is late night. For most conservatives it isn’t so we don’t watch. This is the same reason you’ll never see a lefty such as yourself getting their news from Fox. Why are you so defensive and angry Math Gay? Your guy won, he’s large and in charge and will teach white was is right. You have the next 4 years. I’ll give the late nighters a few months to “find material” on your boy zero and that’s being generous. As another poster has said they’ve had 2 years of campaigning gaffes and easy pickens and haven’t dared to criticize one of their own. By this time in the year 2001 they had been excoriating Bush and Chaney no end. We’ll see how it plays out but my crystal ball tells me that they will still be telling right leaning jokes and not daring to touch the annointed one for fear that their next gig will be McDonalds.
“This twit thinks Colbert is hard-right wing!”
Er, the author was being sarcastic.
You must watch Jon Stewart, or the Colbert Report … your IQ seems at an appropriate level for that show*.
* Just so you know: Those shows aren’t actual news programs. They are comedy shows that use news as a prop. You’re not supposed to use them to get actual information on what’s actually going on in politics any more than you’re supposed to rely on TV for, well, ANYTHING important or accurate (except for Jim Lehrer, if you’re liberal, or C-SPAN, if you’re everybody else).
Keep speaking troof to power, Stupe!
Yeah, Math Guy, give it up. You are out of your league here. These posters have it right, comedians are not just a bunch of liberals, they’re afraid. If you make fun of Liberals when they run the government you’ll get in big trouble. I remember one time back in 1993 a late night guy made a joke about Bill Clinton and they came to his house and threatened him. Then they called his producer, whispered “fairness doctrine”, and hung up. That was all it took. You never heard Clinton made fun of again. Same with Al Gore. I defy you to find me one crack made about him.
And the guys here ARE funny. Just look back a couple posts. Someone called you Math “Gay”! Get it? It’s funny because he made it sound like your name is gay and that means YOU’RE gay. And that’s funny because gay people are, well you know…
“On the one hand you tell us that we have no right to opinions on late night talk shows because we never watch them”
I didn’t say that. Your opinions are predictable.
“then you tell us that there are several hundred channels to watch if we don’t like late night tv.”
True. I’m just saying if you were God, or a network president, or whatever, my favorite programs would suck.
“What do you think we are doing doofus?”
You don’t want to know. And frankly, what you do with your personal life is your own concern. Judging form your little insult, my guess is you may be trying to suppress some conflicting urges.
“Lefties like yourself like to go where you aren’t challenged and to be in your own comfortable little Liberal world”
Little buddy, are you whacked? I’m here in the lion’s den of bass-ackwards American reactionary politics making jokes and influencing people. Why don’t you come on over to DC Wonkette and see how you make out? (Sorry, I didn’t mean to use suggestive language. I wouldn’t want to be responsible if you went down the mall and killed a few people over your confused identity.)
“For most conservatives it isn’t so we don’t watch. This is the same reason you’ll never see a lefty such as yourself getting their news from Fox.”
Is English a second language for you?
“Why are you so defensive and angry Math Gay?”
Oh, come on, Nazi boy. Give us a kiss.
“Your guy won.”
PRAISE THE LORD
That is all.
Iowahawk needs to show them how it’s done
“Your guy won.”
PRAISE THE LORD
I thought Obama WAS the Lord ….
“I thought Obama WAS the Lord ….”
If you think Bush was a competent president, I could see why you would think that.
Does the little guy at 2:27 know anything about 20th century politics? The Nazis and the Commies considered themselves extreme enemies. You shouldn’t get too hung up on the word socialism, little buddy. Not only did they fight against each other in WWII, they also did in Spain. You should read, For Whom the Bell Tolls. The Nazis considered the guy trying to blow up the bridge to be a terrorist.
Old Math Guys never die, they just go off on tangents.
When Gingrich changed the tax law in 1997, it was for a very common sense reason. If I buy a house in 1969 for 30K and sell it in 1980 for 100K, I’ve made a profit of 70K. At the time the government was taking 28% of my profit as a ‘Captial Gain’. So, from the 100K I received at sale, I’m left with right around 80K. But, I no longer own a home, so when I turn around to buy….I can’t buy back the home I just sold because I’m 20K short. The previous law did not restrict supply, it restricted demand, apparently a distinction too subtle for you to understand. If I hoped to sell my house and buy a nicer home, I was immediatly in the hole because of the tax penalty. Gingrich merely recognized that homeowners (especially young ones with growing families) would be more likely to upgrade their homes if there was not a tax if they rolled the profit back into real estate.
Obviously, this did spur housing activity. But, the problem with the financial markets is based not upon the ability of people to buy larger homes, but on the changes in equity requirements. Those changes were started by the noble desire to help poor people become homeowners (beleiving society was better off when more people had an ownership stake in their neighborhood). As these lower equity requirements seemed to work well, the concept was spread to more and more mortgages. We all are aware of the McMansions that sprang up across the country as the middle class was lured into purchasing larger and larger homes because their downpayment could be leveraged against more debt.
Since, in this year – 2009, there are 800,000 new homes currently under construction, there isn’t much basis to claim that there is an over supply in residential housing. 85% of walk-away foreclosures were primary residences, and these people all are living somewhere (renting) and no-doubt many would prefer homeownership, if possible.
They’d have no problem coming up with hilarious sketches, etc., if Hollywood would hire black writers. Hollywood likes black Presidents but bars the doors when it comes to black writers, directors, and producers. Talk about Hypocrites. Hollywood needs some “overcoming.”
I ain’t skeered of Math Guy. As his boy Kerry said in 04 “Bring it On!”
JWarren,
You NAILED it. The Obama comedy deficit stems from the lack of diversity on the writing staffs. I had never considered that possibility, but I think you’re dead on. The writers on these shows are a big clique of white Harvard frat boys, and NOBODY wants to cross the racial line.
Of course, I expect Republican conservatives to blame the poor.
Actually, ‘Republican conservatives’ tend to blame Democratic politicians in Washington for the mess, but you keep telling yourself they’re all blaming ‘the poor’.
Also, please explain to me how lawyers, who basically do little else except research and cut-and-paste, are qualified to comment on market forces. It’s interesting that a ‘lawyer’ really has little of substance to say in ‘refuting’ Frank’s characterization of a law, and talks about ’seeing evidence’ of oversupply three years ago, as if that was some kind of insight. Anybody who reads the Wall Street Journal knew there were going to be problems FIVE years ago, at least (albeit they may not have heeded the warning signs).
It looks to me that at best some 2nd rank doink for a sleazy ‘real estate’ firm (aka, shakedown artists — I received a letter from one recently fishing for claims in my neighborhood (it’s a relatively new development)) really is over his head. I doubt you understand the ‘books’ of a business (or any other basic aspect of business), how supply and demand really works, or probably even much about the regulatory environment in which a developer has to operate, much less about politics, your country, your countrymen, or even your co-workers.
Most lawyers aren’t too bright and are inveterate hacks. You should know that.
But hey, try to impress me with your knowledge of finance and economics. Why don’t you dazzle me with your in-depth knowledge of mortgage-backed securities. Should be a piece of cake for a man of such demonstrable geniosity ….
Then you can next lecture me on how I should run my properties … even though they allowed me to retire at age 38 ….
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