A Talk with Mort Sahl

Here's a recent interview with satirist Mort Sahl, still pissed off at age 76. He's always been right on the beam about the Kennedy assassination, the canary in the coal mine; I'm not talking specifics, I'm talking about knowing that something was fishy and politicized and "spun." And it wasn't simply JFK-worship, either: He got blackballed by the Kennedys--that's when his previously spectacular career started to tail, after 1961 when Kennedy got elected. That business with the Warren Report, only gave people a reason to continue not booking him. He calls George W. Bush "the first President in history who enjoys hanging out with his father's friends." The young King plays polo and looks Royal, while his ministers, old hands all, run the show.