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Lefty Satire Takedown

In a review of DBC Pierre's Booker Prize winning novel Vernon God Little, Michael Lind says much of what I've tried to say in my "Lefty Satire Watch" series that I might just retire:

Effective satire should anger or humiliate its object, on the basis of the points of resemblance between the portrait and its inspiration.

I suspect that much of the lefty satire I've been watching lately settles for the first half of that definition. 't'is a pity.

(Link via The Scrutineer)

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