Mort Sahl Quotes
I was always biting the hand that fed me. It was compulsive. Kennedy was very good to me, and I attacked him as soon as he was elected. I attacked him before he was elected.
Sahl, Mort. Heartland. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976, p. 73.
In the 2012 Presidential campaign, Mitt Romney castigated President Obama for cutting $730 billion from the very popular Medicare program in his budget. The cut did not reduce any benefits to Medicare recipients as the money was saved by ending a subsidy that had been paid to private insurance. However, in Romney’s proposed and published budget, he would cut Medicare by the same $730 but the cuts would come from services as the insurance companies would still get their subsidies.
He was responding to criticism that the media was bashing the President.
Morton Lyon Sahl is an American comedian, actor, and social satirist, considered the first modern stand-up comedian since Will Rogers. Sahl pioneered a style of social satire which pokes fun at political and current event topics using improvised monologues and only a newspaper as a prop.
