[Magdalen] Satire

[Grace Cangialosi]

I love Borowitz!

On May 31, 2016, at 11:53 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:


I thought this was especially amusing.
 


Subject: The Borowitz Report - - -  Satire


  




Stephen Hawking Angers Trump Supporters with  Baffling Array of Long Words
 () LONDON  (_The Borowitz Report_ 
(http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report) )—The theoretical physicist Stephen  Hawking angered supporters of 
Donald J. Trump on Monday by responding to a  question about the billionaire 
with a baffling array of long words.
Speaking  to a television interviewer in London, Hawking called Trump “a 
demagogue who  seems to appeal to the lowest common denominator,” a statement 
that many Trump  supporters believed was intentionally designed to confuse 
them.
Moments  after Hawking made the remark, Google reported a sharp increase in 
searches  for the terms “demagogue,” “denominator,” and “Stephen Hawking.”
“For a so-called genius, this was an epic fail,”  Trump’s campaign 
manager, Corey Lewandowski, said. “If Professor Hawking wants  to do some damage, 
maybe he should try talking in English next time.”
Later in  the day, Hawking attempted to clarify his remark about the 
presumptive  Republican Presidential nominee, telling a reporter, “Trump bad man. 
Real bad  man.”




 
(David Strang)