The NASA Chief’s Ears Are Endless, and Kimmel Isn’t Funny | The American Spectator

I’m becoming increasingly convinced that progressivism is incompatible with a sense of humor. Big headlines in the left-wing press followed Donald Trump’s comment about NASA chief Jared Isaacman’s ears: “You heard that question with those beautiful ears of yours.” Let me be perfectly honest about this. As a badass columnist, I’ve been an expert on physiognomy for 30 years. You can imagine I’ve observed many ears (countless ears) of all shapes and sizes, and I’ve enthusiastically described many of them in lovely articles. And yet, I’ve never seen anything as prodigious as Jared Isaacman’s. It’s truly fascinating. You could spend three days and three nights walking across each of those ears. We all know it. He knows it. Trump knows it. And the only difference between Trump and the rest of the world is that he thought it was a good idea to joke about something so obvious, in the middle of a reception that he also used to praise Isaacman and his team time and again.

One of my most admired Spanish satirical writers had a prominent, slightly pointed nose and enormous ears — though nothing compared to Jared’s. The proof that this man, who recently passed away, was a master of humor is that he was often the first to joke about his famous, distinctive ears. That didn’t stop me, in any case, from referring to him as the “prestigious writer with immeasurable ears” whenever I wrote an article celebrating one of his books. Far from being offended, he found it amusing.

On one occasion, we invited him onto a television program I was working on at the time. He came, we interviewed him for an hour, and he left happy. The next day, he devoted his daily column to us. In the first three lines, he said my colleague and I were very welcoming and funny, and that he had thoroughly enjoyed the interview. The next 300 lines were devoted to mocking the uncomfortable, modern-designed chair our guests were forced to sit in, wondering what darkness lurked within our souls to subject the interviewee to such a session of torture and oppression. Life is better this way.

Although I’ve read unhinged types in Europe accusing Trump of “ear-phobia,” the proof that Jared Isaacman wasn’t offended is that he responded to the president with the same sense of humor on his X account: “We all have our superpowers. Mine are just easier to spot than others.”

There’s something terrible about the way political correctness, or if you prefer woke culture and its earlier follies, has managed to reshape our behavior to such an extent that we unconsciously refrain from making light of a million funny things for fear of offending someone. I’ve never been a fan of humor used to offend others, but I am a fan of telling people who get offended by a joke, or seem predisposed to, to go to hell. Some people leave the house looking for reasons to be offended by everything.

I always say that, beyond the law, the limit of humor in a joke is that it has to be funny. Jimmy Kimmel’s joke about Melania Trump wasn’t funny, but I don’t think the comedian is capable of understanding why. I’ll take the trouble to explain it to him: it wasn’t funny because it didn’t come from humor, but from hatred. This happens a lot with left-wing comedians. Hatred doesn’t allow you to have fun.

The contrast between these two cases gives us an exact picture of what’s happening in most Western media outlets regarding Donald Trump. These people devoted pages and pages to defending Kimmel’s freedom of expression — and just as many to defending the Large Ears Collective. It gets harder and harder to understand them every day. They live in a parallel world, a simulation; they are moved by offenses that do not exist, they laugh at jokes that aren’t funny, they become blind to real and painful offenses, and they have no idea what a sense of humor actually means. Spoiler: they won’t understand this article either. Spoiler 2: They will even find it offensive. Spoiler 3: I couldn’t give a damn.

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