Donald Trump has helped coarsen public conversation, but the media has helped him — by picking sides.
Barry, whose columns made millions of newspaper readers laugh for two decades, was my guest on Thursday at the College of Charleston for a public conversation about the role of humor in public discourse.Who better to ask than a Pulitzer Prize-winning jokester who believes that poking fun at people — left, right, center or otherwise — is a constitutional right, not to mention the American Way. From our country’s first stirrings, humor has been standard fare.
Barry, who has attended every U.S. political convention since 1984, told of being at the 1988 Democratic Convention in Atlanta where the aforementioned woman was surrounded by cameras. Back in his hotel room that night, flipping through the news channels, Barry said he saw two stories featuring the rat “as a significant part of the convention coverage.”
Though Barry isn’t an opinion writer, he manages to convey what he thinks while also making us laugh. Does the awfulness of news put a damper on humor? On the contrary, terrible times mean humor is necessary.
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