With her bid to outlaw “price gauging,” Kamala Harris attempts to defy satire, which brings to mind a scene from Mel Brooks’ The Producers. Max Bialystock (Zero Mostel) and Leo Bloom (Gene Wilder) purchase the rights to “Springtime for Hitler,” by Franz Liebkind (Kenneth Mars), who rails against Winston Churchill, with his cigars, brandy, rotten paintings, and more. “He could not even say Nazi,” Liebkind contends, instead growling “Naaahrzee,” and claiming that Hitler could “paint a whole apartment, one afternoon, two coats.”
Brooks cast Mars as police inspector Hans Wilhelm Friedrich Kemp in Young Frankenstein and he appeared in What’s Up Doc? Radio Days and other films. In the 1985 Fletch, Mars plays attorney Stanton Boyd, confronted by undercover reporter Irwin M. Fletcher (Chevy Chase) masquerading as “Mr. Poon.”
“What kind of a name is Poon?” Boyd wonders.
“Comanche Indian,” says Fletch, perhaps foreshadowing Elizabeth Warren with her Cherokee act. Pursued by the cops, Fletch crashes a convention, seizes the microphone and praises Fred Dorfman, who had been “darn near death.” Fred “wasn’t ashamed to admit to me that he had syphilis,” Fletch says. “Thank God he stopped it in its tracks.” That could preview Joe Biden, who didn’t tell anybody he had dementia and claimed he didn’t need to be tested. At the nadir of his madness, the establishment media said Joe was “sharp as a tack.”
Joe also claimed he smacked down the bully Corn Pop, that he met Golda Meir during the Six Day War, and that New Guinea cannibals chowed down on his uncle Bosie, shot down in WWII. Kamala Harris makes a strong bid with “price gauging,” but when it comes to defying satire, Joe Biden remains undefeated. People are still free to believe that the Delaware Democrat won fair and square in 2020, and that the waxworks effigy of a president ever ran the country in any meaningful sense.
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