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Sarah Silverman’s Activism

Liel Leibovitz explains how it reflects poorly on those she means to help

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October 18, 2012

Sarah Silverman’s sarcastic and biting critiques of the American right wing and her warm embraces of President Obama have frequently made ripples in political culture. However, as Liel Leibovitz reports, it does some undermining too.

This attitude not only falls short of capturing the generous and complex spirit of Judaism, but it also fails to represent an important part of Barack Obama’s ethos. The president’s appeal—and this is as true today as it was four years ago—owes much to his genuine, sometimes maddening, refusal to reduce his ideas to talking points or his opponents to caricatures. Obama speaks in complete sentences, and he knows that great leaders, like great comics, have more of an impact in the long run if they resist the easy punch line and opt instead to say not only what is pleasing but what is true.

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