Subscribe"Laughter, of an awfully canned variety, greets all the gags. Nothing happening on screen justifies these outbursts. …
Fox News Channel will offer a second episode at 10 p.m. March 4. If we’re lucky, we’ll never hear of this dreadful show again."
The best argument for The Daily Show to having a true partisan political slant is the complete softball John Kerry interview in '04, and, well, I don't have a counterargument for that.Stewart softballs almost all politicos (when he has them in person, that is).
Here's the first questions we should be asking: What is a comedy show (if you can call it that) doing on a news channel? Even Jon Stewart would joke that his lead in is puppets crank calling each other.How true.
Wait so, conservatives really can't figure out anything actually bad to say about Obama?What? Weren't you listening? His initials are B.O.! B.O.!
But it's going to be awesome when the first overtly racist comments come out of the mouths of Rush and Hannity and Coulter.Ask and ye shall receive.
After all the meetings, after all the waiting, after shooting the pilot and Fox News actually picking up the damn thing . . . I'm not doing the Half Hour News Hour after all.I hope she offers more detail in the future, if only to declare that the "BO" magazine idea was NOT hers. (Please!)
Yeah, I'm not gonna lie. That one hurt. I won't go into the details because I just managed to stop the bleeding. Let's just say that I didn't want to do what they wanted me to do. So I didn't.
Well, what are you going to do, you know? This kind of shit happens all the time, and you have to be adult about it or you'll never survive.
So I'm going to take the high road, and just say that I hope it's a giant pile of shit that would have ruined my career and gotten me blacklisted.
No, actually I really like the people who created this show, and I sincerely wish them all the best.
... the milieu that [David] Brock describes is reminiscent of that of American Communism in the nineteen-thirties and forties.... Like the American and other Western Communist parties in their heyday, the American conservative movement has created a kind of alternative intellectual and political universe—a set of institutions parallel to and modelled on the institutions of mainstream society (many of which the movement sees, or imagines, as the organs of a disciplined Liberal Establishment) and dedicated to the single purpose of advancing a predetermined political agenda. There is a kind of Inner Movement, consisting of a few hundred funders, senior organization leaders, lawyers, and prominent media personalities (but only a handful of practicing politicians), and an Outer Movement, consisting of a few thousand staff people, grunt workers, and lower-level operatives of one kind or another. The movement has its own newspapers (the Washington Times, the New York Post, the Journal's editorial page), its own magazines (The Weekly Standard, National Review, Policy Review, Commentary, and many more), its own broadcasting operations (Fox News and an array of national and local talk-radio programs and right-wing Christian broadcast outlets), its own publishing houses (Regnery and the Free Press, among others), its own quasi-academic research institutions (the Heritage Foundation, the American Enterprise Institute), and even its own Popular Front—the Republican Party....
Another echo was the conviction that the mainstream media—the conservative movement called it the "liberal," not the "capitalist," press, but the air of beleaguerment and conspiracy was the same—was little more than an engine of propaganda.
If they ditch the laugh track and critique their material more carefully, in two or three seasons this might be funny.No time for that. Jesus comin' soon.
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