# Entertainments that you as a liberal/conservative shouldn't enjoy but do anyway? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 27, 2010, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entertainments-that-you-as-a-liberal-conservative-shouldnt-enjoy-but-do-anyway/551606 "2010-08-27T00:52:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![alexandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e68b1a/32.png) [@alexandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alexandra)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2010, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entertainments-that-you-as-a-liberal-conservative-shouldnt-enjoy-but-do-anyway/551606/41 "2010-08-29T16:43:29Z")
> [@multimediac17](#): > > > [@alexandra](#): > > > > That’s not really what this thread is about, though, is it. > > It’s not, I agree, but there were some other similar comments that went in that direction before mine so I commented on it too. Sorry for the hijack, anyway. Sorry to pick on you. It’s a trend in CS that annoys me. I forgot to say Patricia Cornwell, too. As a liberal, Scarpetta complaining that it’d be so much easier to catch the bad guys if everyone had their DNA on a central database annoys me, but her novels are often my potboilers of choice. ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2010, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entertainments-that-you-as-a-liberal-conservative-shouldnt-enjoy-but-do-anyway/551606/42 "2010-08-29T18:48:26Z")
I’m a liberal, but occasionally I like listening to the country music station. I tend to prefer the old-time drinkin’-and-cheatin’ songs to the more glurgey material that’s popular nowadays. I do like some modern country, though, like Brad Paisley’s “'Alcohol” and Blake Shelton’s “Ol’ Red.” ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2010, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entertainments-that-you-as-a-liberal-conservative-shouldnt-enjoy-but-do-anyway/551606/43 "2010-08-29T19:56:58Z")
> [@want2know](#): > > [QUOTE=Shadowfyre] > Old-time pro wrestling (like the old AWA shows on ESPN Classic) Amen. It was more entertaining before it went big-time in the 1980s and celebrities got involved with it. As John Waters put it, “Pro wrestling: the one good sport, which has now been ruined by Cindy Lauper”. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entertainments-that-you-as-a-liberal-conservative-shouldnt-enjoy-but-do-anyway/551606/44 "2010-08-30T00:34:15Z")
All I can think of is liking the Hitchhiker trilogy–including the first book, which goes out of its way to be atheistic. And that’s only because I was surprised that it didn’t at all hamper my enjoyment. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entertainments-that-you-as-a-liberal-conservative-shouldnt-enjoy-but-do-anyway/551606/45 "2010-08-30T15:38:44Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > All I can think of is liking the Hitchhiker trilogy–including the first book, which goes out of its way to be atheistic. And that’s only because I was surprised that it didn’t at all hamper my enjoyment. Anti-religion perhaps. I recall God existing until “proven” out of existence. And there’s his Last Message in later books as well as a whole bunch of Norse gods… ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entertainments-that-you-as-a-liberal-conservative-shouldnt-enjoy-but-do-anyway/551606/46 "2010-08-30T16:22:59Z")
Mancow Muller, a morning zoo shock jock based out of Chicago. He’s basically the right wing Howard Stern - celebrity interviews, strippers and dick jokes, mixed in with a lot of talk about issues near and dear to conservatives’ hearts like gun rights, small government, abortion, the perils of overtaxation etc., with an occasional profession of faith (in spite of the aforementioned dick jokes and strippers). I actually haven’t listened to him in a long time, but back in the '90s he seemed to be fixated on black helicopters, Clinton running a shadow government and the UN trying to set up a new world order. I can only imagine what the show is like these days. When he wasn’t pontificating, though, he could be quite entertaining, and he did some great skits and prank phone calls. He even had a confrontation with Stern once live on the radio. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entertainments-that-you-as-a-liberal-conservative-shouldnt-enjoy-but-do-anyway/551606/47 "2010-08-30T17:20:23Z")
> [@](#): > > I recall God existing until “proven” out of existence. . But the “proof” of his non-existence isn’t worth a pair of fetid dingo’s kidneys. ---
**Author:** ![pyromyte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d26b3c/32.png) [@pyromyte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pyromyte)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entertainments-that-you-as-a-liberal-conservative-shouldnt-enjoy-but-do-anyway/551606/48 "2010-08-30T20:23:04Z")
> [@Nan\_Sequitur](#): > > Dexter. And I just don’t get it. I lean slightly left of Keith Olbermann, total pacifist, don’t even believe in the death penalty, and yet I hug myself with glee every time I watch this show. That’s interesting, I was going to say I am conservative, but I love Dexter. My wife’s parents are very conservative, and no way would I recommend them to watch Dexter with all the f-bombs, violence, and sex! I’d be embarrassed to watch it with them. I never really thought about it from the left’s perspective about the death penalty. Yet my wife and I are addicts. I also enjoy Breaking Bad, even though I disagree with the protagonist there, yet, I find myself rooting for him the whole time. Musically I feel like everything I listen to is liberal. System of a Down for example. ---
**Author:** ![FallenAngel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@FallenAngel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FallenAngel)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entertainments-that-you-as-a-liberal-conservative-shouldnt-enjoy-but-do-anyway/551606/49 "2010-08-30T21:36:15Z")
I’m a libertarian who absolutely loathes liberal economics and government intervention, but \The West Wing\ is one of my all time favorite TV shows, at least up until Sorkin left. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entertainments-that-you-as-a-liberal-conservative-shouldnt-enjoy-but-do-anyway/551606.md?page=2)