LINK Kind of a "don't feed the trolls" or "ignore them and they'll go away" kind of article. She only mentions Beck, Palin and Bachmann though. I don't know why Limbaugh, Hannity and O'Reily get a pass. Maybe she doesn't want to draw the ire of the entire conservative community The left doesn't really have "village explainer". Jon Stewart is the closest thing but he definitely appeals more to intellectuals. The right has done a good job painting liberals as snobs or elitist and liberals have done very little to shed that label.
Jon Stewart appeals to "intellectuals"? That's why its on Comedy Central. The left has these things too..Michael Moore, Bill Mahar, Rachel Maddow. The thing is they spend all their time bashing people like Palin, making them more famous instead of focusing on new issues (well, except for Moore really).
Yea, because mostly intellectuals are the only one's who get his jokes. Most bonehead conservatives don't even know they are being made fun of.
an example of: YEAH! Conservatives are so beneath us all! They don't understand the ironic smugness of Jon Stewart! did they not get the MEMO? THE FUCKING MEMO!!!!
Comedy ≠ Stupid You have to be aware of politics and world events to get most of his jokes. Uh, that's the whole point of the article. You should read it, I think you would agree with a lot of it.
Most of his jokes come from inside jokes and opinion pieces from liberal news blogs. Basically born from shared facebook and twitter feeds.
I'll have to take your word for it. I don't watch MSNBC but they show FOX at the gym so that's my only point of reference
I flip on MSNBC sometimes and they just seem to spend a lot of their times bashing not only fox but conservatives in general. Its kind of off-putting instead of offering good analysis.
I wouldn't have pinned you as a guy who spends time on liberal news blogs but you prove me wrong once again
Funny how this works both ways. I prefer only to read Associated Press articles on the Google news feed.
Fox doesn't really spend their time bashing MSNBC. Most of it is Obama and the democratic politicians. big difference.
I think Fox ripped on Olberman a fair amount of times. I'm about to get shouted down from both sides for this comment, but for me, the old MSNBC (with Olberman) line-up was basically the same as the Fox lineup. Olberman and Beck are both out of their damn minds (though I'll find myself nodding in agreement with Olberman). Wallace and Hannity are too smarmy and angry for anyone to really like. Maddow and O'Reilly are the ones that you can disagree with without being disagreeable, most of the time. Not sure where its at now, as the Ed Show is just too angry to counter Beck and O'Donnell doesn't seem to have a counter part there either unless Shepard Smith has moved to more of the opinion side of things. Of course I don't really watch enough Fox News to see what else they have with O'Reilly, Hannity, and Beck.
