As mentioned in the thread titled The Right Wing Daily Show is Coming! the Fox News channel will be airing a show entitled The Half Hour News Hour hosted by Kurt Long and Susan Yeagley.
On February 12th Fox News aired a commercial for the show. It was a “joke” public service announcement. I saw only the last 15 seconds of it… It may have been a video clip shown on The O’Reily Factor as it was on around the same time as the clip (I caught it while walking past the TVs at the gym)… I’m not sure.
Either way the commercial (still frames here [note, liberal blog, facutual frames, it was the only site I could find that had the images]) disguises itself as a public service announcement on a NEWS CHANNEL.
Besides the point, but the commercial warns that the show
They sound like a bunch of cheery happy unbigoted people…
Anyway, not long ago I started a thread titled Minor Pitting… Ghost Hunters on Dis. and other misplaced shows (It turns out I was mistaken… Ghost Hunters was on the correct channel… other shows are mentioned, though… so the thread isn’t totally worthless). THIS SHOW MORE THAN ANY OTHER belongs on that list.
From the description you gave, this is not a right wing Daily Show. It is a right-wing comedy style news show. Once again, the Daily Show attacked ALL media. This one appears to solely target leftists.
For once I wish the “left-wing media” was as real, organized and effective as the right wing media.
Yeah, I thought about mentioning that The Daily Show show seems to target the media in general, but considering the audience of it (ever see a right winger come on the show? Or a leftist movement mentioned? Usually gets a loud cheer from the crowd) I figured it safew to call The Half Hour News Hour its opposite… or at least the right wing’s response to it.
It being a right-wing comedy news show rather than an all around media mocker and the predicted failure of it because of this is discussed well in the first thread I linked to.
Hmmm, this doesn’t bode too well for the show’s funniness quotient. If your chief advertising hook is bragging about how much you’re going to piss off your ideological adversaries, your content is probably going to be heavy on the partisan ranting and light on the genuine humor. (Moreover, the wit level of phrases like “The Left, The Far Left, Anyone Standing to the Left” and “The ACLU, Anyone with ACLU in Their Name” strikes me as fairly low.)
Compare this rather heavy-handed pitch to the Daily Show’s deadpan, self-mocking slogans: “One anchor, five correspondents, zero credibility.” “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - it’s even better than being informed.” The true heartbeat of funny is being able to poke fun at yourself.
The only thing that offends me about this is its Barbaro-like lameness. Who thought adding “gay penguins” once let alone twice was a good idea? If this little gem is any indication, the show has jumped the shark already.
Am I the only one who finds it completely repulsive that they even made the “Gay Penguins” joke at all? I mean, these people actually DO support oppression and discrimination against homosexuals. It’s like they’re flaunting their igornance and evil.
And the left isn’t going to watch Fox in the first place - even less likely with that kind of ad. So they’ve thinned their audience right from the start.
Are you kidding? **Diogenes **and **elucidator **will be their biggest fans! Those guys are always bitching about what they saw on FoxNews.
I taped Red Eye last night and will watch it later-- just out of curiosity. I figured the day after that weekend of presidential primary positioning would be a good day to judge the content. Is that a different show than “the Right-Wing Daily Show”? Maybe I got my shows mixed up.
You’re giving them to much credit. A yawn is a better response than outrage.
I’ll catch an episode or two if I can, but the real gold is going to be when Jon Stewart gets around to lampooning them and their inevitable self-evident bullshit, because that will be hysterical. It wouldn’t surprise me if they come and go so fast he misses his chance, though. Politics aside, no comedy show claiming to be edgy can afford to be lame.
Strangely I can’t seem to find an official reference to the show whatsoever from Fox News or the Fox corporation. There are quotes in some news articles, some uncited information about the show, but no website… No “Coming soon!” on Fox News, NADDA. I couldn’t even find the commercial on youtube… As I mentioned above… The only screenshots I found were from a liberal rant.
