'Liberal satire' is an oxymoron

In the latest issue of The Atlantic Christopher Hitchens brilliantly articulates something many of us have long suspected: that left-liberals – the modern variety, at any rate – are quite incapable of effective or indeed funny satire.

The Hitch's immediate target is the libtard comic turned Democrat senator Al Franken:

"Franken very often refers to himself as a "satirist," which is a piece of hubris that comes to him too glibly and naturally. One wants to say, on hearing or reading such a...