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These are interesting times for political humor.on the story of Dick Cheney surviving a suicide bombing in Afghanistan and is excoriated.and scores big laughs. Five and a half years after 9/11, five and a half years afterAmericans they "need to watch what they say, watch what they do," five and a half years after Graydon Carter, we seem to be living in a Golden Age of political humor, with Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, and Borat Sagdiev wielding their satiric blades. And then. Ripping the heads off small animals is such a hoot, isn't it? Freud would have a field day.
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These are interesting times for political humor. Bill Maher riffs on the story of Dick Cheney surviving a suicide bombing in Afghanistan and is excoriated. President Bush jokes about the same incident and scores big laughs. Five and a half years after 9/11, five and a half years after Ari Fleisher warned Americans they "need to watch what they say, watch what they do," five and a half years after Graydon Carter declared the death of the age of irony, we seem to be living in a Golden Age of political humor, with Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, and Borat Sagdiev wielding their satiric blades. And then we have this. Ripping the heads off small animals is such a hoot, isn't it? Freud would have a field day.

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