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xoxoxoBruce 09-21-2010 12:43 PM
Humorous is subjective, that's the rub.

morethanpretty 09-21-2010 12:43 PM
He has a segment called "How will the Dems F* it up this time"!

Spexxvet 09-21-2010 12:45 PM
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Originally Posted by morethanpretty (Post 683850)
The Daily Show makes fun of BOTH sides of the aisle. How is it catering to liberals if its makes fun of them?
I understand what you mean. Then again, I'm iberal.:p:

Shawnee123 09-21-2010 12:47 PM
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I understand what you mean. Then again, I'm iberal.:p:
You're iberian? ;)

Happy Monkey 09-21-2010 12:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Undertoad (Post 683836)
Bill Maher is arrogant as all hell.

Dennis Miller seems arrogant but actually is not.

Jon Stewart is not arrogant.

Arrogance is one of the primary qualities of the character Rush Limbaugh has refined.

Same is true for Stephen Colbert.
I'd agree on all counts, but also say that Dennis Miller plays an arrogant character like Colbert.

If Limbaugh's arrogance is still just an act at this point (I agree it was in the beginning), I wonder what he thinks when any Republican politician who crosses him is forced to apologize. It must be surreal.

Happy Monkey 09-21-2010 12:51 PM
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Originally Posted by morethanpretty (Post 683850)
The Daily Show makes fun of BOTH sides of the aisle. How is it catering to liberals if its makes fun of them?
They made a union rep try to crawl out of his skin last night. The union had hired non-union temp workers at minimum wage with no benefits and low hours to picket Wal-Mart's lack of unions and benefits, and their hour cutbacks.

Spexxvet 09-21-2010 12:55 PM
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You're iberian? ;)
iberal. It's being Liberal without the
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Happy Monkey 09-21-2010 12:56 PM
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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce (Post 683851)
Humorous is subjective, that's the rub.
I didn't intend to imply objectively humorous; just intent to be humorous. I haven't found much of Dennis Miller's recent comedy particularly humorous, but I would consider his act to be "humorous political commentary".

Shawnee123 09-21-2010 12:56 PM
Awwww, I love Sheldon!

I'm iberal oo, exxvett!

Pico and ME 09-21-2010 01:05 PM
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Originally Posted by jinx (Post 683841)
What are my politics? As far as I know, I've got some from both sides...
Really, I just don't like infotainment in general. Takes the funny out of it for me. I say "arrogant" because as much as conservative like to be told they are morally correct, liberals like to be told they are smarter than conservatives. I just see the Daily Show as catering to that.
I figured it was the elitist liberal business. I cant deny your point, there. I guess then, most of the moderates and independents who like watching the show are really closet liberals.

classicman 09-21-2010 02:22 PM
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liberals like to think they are smarter than conservatives. I just see the Daily Show as catering to that.
Fixed that for ya, and I agree.

I'm still pondering on how watching a dog play in the snow is political and comparable to this at all. My conclusion thus far is FAIL.

Spexxvet 09-21-2010 02:29 PM
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Fixed that for ya, and I agree.

I'm still pondering on how watching a dog play in the snow is political and comparable to this at all. My conclusion thus far is FAIL.
Smart people are more likely to be Liberals than conservatives.

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The short answer: Kanazawa's paper shows that more-intelligent people are more likely to say they are liberal. They are also less likely to say they go to religious services. These aren't entirely new findings; last year, for example, a British team found that kids with higher intelligence scores were more likely to grow into adults who vote for Liberal Democrats, even after the researchers controlled for socioeconomics.

Spexxvet 09-21-2010 02:45 PM
Here's another study

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Analyses of large representative samples, from both the United States and the United Kingdom, confirm this prediction. In both countries, more intelligent children are more likely to grow up to be liberals than less intelligent children. For example, among the American sample, those who identify themselves as “very liberal” in early adulthood have a mean childhood IQ of 106.4, whereas those who identify themselves as “very conservative” in early adulthood have a mean childhood IQ of 94.8.


Even though past studies show that women are more liberal than men, and blacks are more liberal than whites, the effect of childhood intelligence on adult political ideology is twice as large as the effect of either sex or race. So it appears that, as the Hypothesis predicts, more intelligent individuals are more likely to espouse the value of liberalism than less intelligent individuals, possibly because liberalism is evolutionarily novel and conservatism is evolutionarily familiar.

Happy Monkey 09-21-2010 02:50 PM
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I'm still pondering on how watching a dog play in the snow is political
Who said it was?
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and comparable to this at all.
Jinx originally said Stewart's arrogance was displayed by making fun of people doing stupid things, which is the premise of AFV. It only came later that the arrogance is actually in liberal people making fun of conservatives doing stupid things, which added politics rather than just style into the equation, and explains why Limbaugh doesn't get saddled with arrogance as well as outrage.

Pico and ME 09-21-2010 02:54 PM
Nice wrap up there, HM. :thumbsup:


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