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- <title>
- Feb. 10, 1992: Not Necessarily the Speech
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Feb. 10, 1992 Japan
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 80
- Not Necessarily the Speech
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- <p>By Michael Quinn
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- <p> If Spiro Agnew once got hot under the collar contemplating
- the "instant analysis" of TV journalists covering President
- Nixon's speeches, last week's take on President Bush's State of
- the Union address from cable channel Comedy Central would have
- made him burst into flame. The satirical play-by-play reportage
- included Al Franken evaluating Bush's speech as it was
- delivered, and caustic comic Richard Belzer firing postgame
- jibes. Viewers were served raw ridicule of presidential welfare
- bashing and strained just-plain-folkisms, like Bush's nod to
- "G.I. Joes and Janes...who sucked the dust." The result:
- Comedy Central's ratings doubled.
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- </body></article>
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