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Re: Be thankful..

Posted by Victor Khomenko (M) on April 13, 2006 at 12:47:31

In Reply to: Be thankful.. posted by mdl on April 13, 2006 at 12:26:09:

You obviously latched on the obsenity part of my post - missing the one about attempts at wit and humor. Put simply - he did not appear to be an interesting speaker, all his "motherfuckers" notwithstanding. My post was broader than just his cursing. I listened to him like I would to a film maker, and found precious little in that department.

I think I know the Gere film you are referring to, and that is of course different... that role is brutal and quite unpleasant. His personal life is apparently different - he behaved like an intelligent and basically good man during that interview - a stark contrast with some clowns that get there.

As far as my insight... I wish you could witness that moment... the host was indeed shaken.

Personally I am not against the profanities - but everything should have time and place. I do not, and shall not consider speaking in front of a college audience such a place.

I had been to some public speaches where speakers intentionally kept using profanities to "shock" the public, to elicit cheap laughters - that is never pleasant or stimulating.

So all in all, in Smith's case it was the combination of his dress, demeanor, profundity of his stories, eloquence of his speech and his use of obsenities all united in a rather unpleasant portrait of a modern populist pseudo-intellectual, having easy time recruiting followers.

All that did not bother me nearly as much as the fact the audience obviously enjoyed the evening.

All those "huge fans"...

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