The liberal comedian Louis CK is a darling of the cultural Left. Esquire magazine hailed him for locating with few words “the awkward, painful truth of everyday life.” They celebrated an interview with New York magazine, but avoided the weird part where Louis said “Everybody has both masculine and feminine sides, but Obama is feminine inside.”
But “when it comes to an election that's as embarrassing as it is confusing, CK knows how to boil it down into terms that any idiot could understand. In an interview with New York Magazine, CK explains the 2016 Presidential Election using a brilliant airplane analogy.” It was simply this, the notion that Hillary is the sober, statesmanlike figure of experience, your most masterful airplane pilot:
The American government is a very volatile, dangerous mechanism, and Hillary has the most experience with it. It's like if you were on a plane and you wanted to choose a pilot. You have one person, Hillary, who says, "Here's my license. Here's all the thousands of flights that I've flown. Here's planes I've flown in really difficult situations. I've had some good flights and some bad flights, but I've been flying for a very long time, and I know exactly how this plane works." Then you've got Bernie, who says, "Everyone should get a ride right to their house with this plane." "Well, how are you going to do that?" "I just think we should. It's only fair that everyone gets to use the plane equally." And then Trump says, "I'm going to fly so well. You're not going to believe how good I'm going to fly this plane, and by the way, Hillary never flew a plane in her life." "She did, and we have pictures." "No, she never did it." It's insane.
Like many liberals, Louis thinks "there’s very little rational intake of political thought," and can't imagine he might be as closed off to conservative opinion as he claims everyone else is to his:
People get so upset that they don’t hear what you’re saying. There’s this feeling with people where they’ve got to decide whether an opinion or information is right or wrong. Nobody can eat a whole meal and then digest it and see how they feel the next day. You’ve got a meal in front of you, and you take a piece of lettuce and you go, “Why is there just a piece of lettuce? I’m hungry for more.” “What do you mean? There’s a bunch of other shit on the plate. Take a minute and eat that!” “No. It’s just lettuce, and fuck you, I hate lettuce.” That’s how it is with every conversation now.
As if this man can call for rational conversation ....the guy that slashed Pope Benedict XVI as a child abuser on The Daily Show six years ago:
"I was going to say that the pope f***ed boys and I didn't have time," C.K. blurted out as host Jon Stewart started wrapping up the interview. "I do think he does. Can I defend that before we go away?"
Stewart attempted to minimize the unprovoked attack saying, "I don't think that that's true, although, they bleeped it. I don't think that that's true."
But C.K. persisted. "Well here's the thing, he lets other people do it," he said of the pope. "And I guess my feeling is this: there's only two kinds of people. There's people who are horrified and reviled by child touching with penises, and then there's people who can't stop having sex with children. There's no in-between.”
