Celebrities Shouldn’t Make Puff Pieces Humanizing Bad People To Make What They Do Seem Less Evil
It’s not useful to learn how much Ted Bundy loved his dog
By David Grace (Amazon Page — David Grace Website)
The Trump syncophants didn’t wait long to push-back against Larry David’s New York Times editorial, My Dinner With Adolph.
(See: Larry David Trolls Bill Maher With Essay Titled ‘My Dinner With Adolf)
It seems to me that Bill Maher’s claim that it was a good idea to report what a charming dinner companion Trump was and his notion that it’s helpful to discover the personal side of would-be dictators instead of just focusing on the evil things they think, say, advocate and do is, frankly, crap.
Larry David’s position was that, no, we shouldn’t do puff pieces humanizing bad people in order to make what they do look less wrong.
It’s A Bad Idea To Humanize Bad People To Make Them Seem Less Bad
- Maybe Hitler was nice to his dog; maybe he gave it really good biscuits and healthy exercise. So what?
- Maybe Trump would be nice to a dog if he had one. Maybe he laughs all the time and knows the dialog of every I Love Lucy episode by heart. So what?
- Perhaps Ted Bundy was a terrific piano player and could recite epic poems from memory. So what?
- Should we aspire to get to know the kinder, gentler side of John Wayne Gacy, Bull Connor or Leona Helmsley?
- Would it have been a good idea for 60 Minutes to have reported on what a raconteur Berne Madoff was around the commissary table in Federal prison so that we could be exposed to the more entertaining side of the vicious swindler?
What good does any of that do? Now, consider the harm that does.
Why Someone Would Want To Humanize A Bad Person
Publicizing the non-toxic aspects of toxic human beings serves only three purposes:
- (1) to make them look less bad
- (2) to kiss up to the toxic person in the hope of acquiring some future reward
- (3) to feed off the publicity generated by the event.
None of those three goals are worthy of respect. Quite the opposite.
Those objectives are, in fact, the stock in trade of those who seek to gain by collaborating with people you wouldn’t want anyone you loved to so much as have a cup of coffee with.
At Best, Maher Was Played
One has to wonder if Maher has considered that Trump laughed and complemented him and treated him nicely because Trump wants the public to like him in order to offset their disgust at what he is doing?
Has it occurred to Maher that Trump just played him and that Maher fell for it, and now Maher is giving Trump a second boost by defending his puff segment?
I think Larry David should write a second piece in which the author of the first “dinner with Adolph” story complains about the people who have criticized him for “humanizing Hitler.”
The “When You Compare Trump To Hitler You’ve Lost The Argument” Lie
The nonsense refrain that you shouldn’t compare Trump’s personality and actions to Hitler’s is a defense mechanism practiced by the supporters of men who would love to be Hitler if they could get away with it, without killing all those Jews of course.
In fact, in several ways you can compare the current version of Trump to the 1933 version of Hitler. Let’s start with both being narcissist megalomaniacs.
Moving on, both tried and failed in their first attempt to seize power through violence. Both were arrested for it. One was convicted. One avoided trial by getting elected President.
Hitler created Dachau in 1933. Trump created the El Salvador Prison Program in 2025.
Trump has the same goal in mind as Hitler, becoming Supreme Leader of his country, just without killing all those Jews.
Perhaps shipping of legions of Hispanics to Central American gulags will be vicious enough for him.
Both want to run the world, but Trump is still a few steps further behind doing that right now. First he has to proceed with his plans to acquire Greenland, Panama and Canada. Give him time.
What the apologists for Trump don’t get is that today’s Trump shares some similar goals and personality traits with the version of the Hitler who existed in 1933. Give The Donald some more time to become the Hitler of 1940, but without killing all those Jews.
Why The Quest To Get To Know The Kinder, Gentler Donald Trump?
Maher is sharp enough to realize that we are a Dead Country Walking and I suspect that he’s auditioning for the role of Court Jester to America’s executioner.
In six months I predict that he will be hosting some TV show with Trump as the surprise guest — “See everybody, he’s not such a bad guy after all. Look at how I made him laugh.”
Maybe Maher will send a DVD of the touching episode to the guys Mr. T sent to El Salvador so that they can have a better understanding of the jolly side of the man who exiled them to their foreign, hell-hole prison.
— David Grace (Amazon Page — David Grace Website)
