She spends time specifically trying to connect with people who do not share her views…which (should not shock anyone) actually works!!! She’s been able through one on one and intimate conversations reach people and egt them to come to the middle a bit, find some common ground.
Bits like the above only further works at ridiculing and making fun of them…which doesn’t really help the problem.
I get it. I never thought much of the “Talking to Americans” bit either. Of course you can find people who will say ridiculous things into a camera (perhaps because they believe those ridiculous things, perhaps not). It’s possible that there is a group of people more prone to saying ridiculous things than another, but that’s not their defining feature.
Actually he once did a bit that was entirely about signing the release form, just getting people to agree to really absurd conditions. Like I said, of course you can get people to say ridiculous things. I don’t really like the passing off of those people as representative of some subgroup of the population rather than as representative of general human folly.
When a comedy show does person on the street interviews, I think guessing that there is unused video that contained less funny responses doesn’t require watching the video in question.
Having watched and laughed wholeheartedly along with many of Kimmel’s street interviews, I have come to the conclusion that Hollywood Blvd is populated by the most ignorant of peoples. Damn.
Given that their favorite news station responds to every Drumpf gaff with “What about Hillary” and the fact that new Drumpf problems pop up several times a day, it’s pretty much drilled into their heads.
Ask a bunch of people who don’t know enough about government and politics to know that you can’t impeach a private citizen who doesn’t hold an office, and you’re going to get some stupid opinions.
Conclusion: the extent to which one should care about a person’s opinion on a topic should be proportional to that person’s knowledge of the topic.
Ah, but we smart people KNOW those people are not representative of anything but themselves. We know that if they interviewed US, we would never appear on that TV show.
Of course. They probably shot hours of stuff to get 2 minutes of usable stuff.
But the point is, there are still enough people willing to give their opinions* on camera for network TV, even signing a release form for it, and still be totally surprised when they appear on TV looking stupid. Or ignorant, at the least.
|* It may be their honest opinion. It may be just what they think the TV people want to hear. It may be their best effort at wit so they could “go viral.” (It’s hard to be the one behind the camera keeping a straight face, doing no eyerolls or blink-blinks or other expressions of incredulity at the stupidity of some humans.)
I think this is also a reflection of how excellent of a job the conservatives, their pundits and their media allies have done in casting a negative image on Hillary Clinton. I really believe that most of the people who hate her have little or no specific reason to hate her. But after over two decades of suspicions and accusations half of the population of the USA considers her more of a criminal than Donald Trump.
