# More on the Right Wing Daily show (commercial, specifically) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 13, 2007, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-on-the-right-wing-daily-show-commercial-specifically/392091 "2007-02-13T23:04:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Debaser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3da27b/32.png) [@Debaser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Debaser)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2007, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-on-the-right-wing-daily-show-commercial-specifically/392091/141 "2007-02-15T19:17:08Z")
[QUOTE=Fear Itself] It was very popular when [Craig Kilborn was the host](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Show#With_Craig_Kilborn_.281996.E2.80.931998.29), though not as high profile. It never positioned itself as a liberal comedy show flogging the right. It really was just a fake news show. [/QUOTE] I’ve been a fan of TDS since the Kilborn days. It was funnier then than now since it was more balanced and made fun of everyone equally. Also, back then it was kind of a combination of the current TDS with Steward and the Colbert Report. Kilborn was always sort of playing a character of the self absorbed news anchor. ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2007, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-on-the-right-wing-daily-show-commercial-specifically/392091/142 "2007-02-15T19:21:48Z")
[QUOTE=Liberal] Yes, that one. Also the one whereby I unreasonably assumed that leftists are gracious, and thereby fallaciously reasoned that they would appreciate an admission of error. [/QUOTE] So you follow up the broad brush generalization you got called on with another one? I thought you had a deeper understanding of logical fallacies. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2007, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-on-the-right-wing-daily-show-commercial-specifically/392091/143 "2007-02-15T19:23:23Z")
[QUOTE=woodstockbirdybird] So you follow up the broad brush generalization you got called on with another one? I thought you had a deeper understanding of logical fallacies. [/QUOTE] 😃 Apparently, before it’s over, I’ll have to band some brushes together to have sufficient breadth. Who’s next? ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2007, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-on-the-right-wing-daily-show-commercial-specifically/392091/144 "2007-02-15T19:34:24Z")
Oh, get over it, **Liberal**. You said something stupid and got called on it. Why should we be polite when you weren’t? ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Badger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/848f3c/32.png) [@Dead\_Badger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Badger)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2007, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-on-the-right-wing-daily-show-commercial-specifically/392091/145 "2007-02-15T19:34:40Z")
[QUOTE=Liberal] Yes, that one. Also the one whereby I unreasonably assumed that leftists are gracious, and thereby fallaciously reasoned that they would appreciate an admission of error. [/QUOTE] This non-leftist couldn’t give a fuck, and has seen it all before. You’ll be out again, soon enough, bemoaning how everyone else is a filthy partisan just as you desperately try and stuff them all into little boxes yourself. You’ll argue crap until you’re completely cornered, then act as if some revelatory new information has miraculously proven you wrong, and disingenuously pretend you were arguing sensibly all along. Why should all us “leftists” be gracious when you’ve been spending three pages insisting that we’re blind partisan morons for not finding this execrable crap hilarious, for you to then turn around and pretend like you were blazing a trail for logical thought, only to have heretofore unimaginable data prove you wrong? Fuck that. “I stand corrected”? You sat retarded. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2007, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-on-the-right-wing-daily-show-commercial-specifically/392091/146 "2007-02-15T19:43:31Z")
I think you’re a bit mixed up. What I retracted was the hypothesis that left wing rejection might portend right wing acceptance. I retracted it because a counterexample was provided. Quite obviously, you are still partisan, petty, vicious, and spit full of spite. No retraction on that. ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2007, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-on-the-right-wing-daily-show-commercial-specifically/392091/147 "2007-02-15T19:45:01Z")
[QUOTE=Captain Carrot] Oh, get over it, **Liberal**. You said something stupid and got called on it. Why should we be polite when you weren’t? [/QUOTE] I’m just wondering…shouldn’t our boy **Liberal** have just said that the free market would resolve this and that would be that? With his small views, shouldn’t that have been enough? -Joe ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2007, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-on-the-right-wing-daily-show-commercial-specifically/392091/148 "2007-02-15T20:00:08Z")
The question at this point, I suppose, is how long it will be before a leftist drops by who \*doesn’t \* run headlong into the broad brush that Woodstockbirdybird has assigned to me. ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Badger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/848f3c/32.png) [@Dead\_Badger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Badger)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2007, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-on-the-right-wing-daily-show-commercial-specifically/392091/149 "2007-02-15T20:02:19Z")
[QUOTE=Liberal] Quite obviously, you are still partisan, petty, vicious, and spit full of spite. No retraction on that. [/QUOTE] Really? Can you tell me what my politics are, then? You’re clearly the fucking expert. Yeah, I’m a partisan: I fucking hate humourless, politically obsessed morons without the fucking consideration to spit coffee all over their keyboard when they watch godawful “comedy” so the rest of us don’t have to read their fucked-in-the-head supercilious self-serving theories about how we’re all just so wrapped up in our own obsessions that we can’t tell shit from shinola. I fucking hate having perfectly reasonable points ignored by a person who’ll then turn round and bat their eyelashes, claim to have “graciously” retracted something and then prove they’re exactly as much of a retard as they were five minutes ago. Speaking of which: > [@Liberal](#): > > I think you’re a bit mixed up. What I retracted was the hypothesis that left wing rejection might portend right wing acceptance. Well why the fuck should I ever be gracious about that? You going to retract your stupid, petty, predictable bullshit from the first three pages of this thread; you know, where you insisted that all us naughty handwringers were just complaining because it’s a right wing show? Or were you just going to _pretend_ like you’d retracted that shit, so you could save it up for a rainy day? ---
**Author:** ![stolichnaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bcef8e/32.png) [@stolichnaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stolichnaya)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2007, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-on-the-right-wing-daily-show-commercial-specifically/392091/150 "2007-02-15T20:19:08Z")
I no longer understand this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2007, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-on-the-right-wing-daily-show-commercial-specifically/392091/151 "2007-02-15T20:21:43Z")
[QUOTE=stolichnaya] I no longer understand this thread. [/QUOTE] I think we’re witnessing a self-fulfilling prophecy unfold — tree-hugging ass biters proving that stereotypes don’t arise out of whole cloth. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2007, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-on-the-right-wing-daily-show-commercial-specifically/392091/152 "2007-02-15T20:22:21Z")
[QUOTE=Apos] [http://hotair.com/archives/2007/02/14/video-president-rush-limbaugh-vice-president-ann-coulter/](http://hotair.com/archives/2007/02/14/video-president-rush-limbaugh-vice-president-ann-coulter/) [/QUOTE] Boy, nothing adds to the humor of political sketch comedy like a bottom-of-the-screen news crawl providing the body count for the latest explosive war atrocity. ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2007, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-on-the-right-wing-daily-show-commercial-specifically/392091/153 "2007-02-15T20:22:35Z")
[QUOTE=stolichnaya] I no longer understand this thread. [/QUOTE] Basically, **Liberal** is whining about everyone being mean to him because he’s such an intolerable dick. He doesn’t understand why the people of the SDMB aren’t so in awe at his pathetic attempts at reason, logic, and goalpost-moving that they don’t give him a free pass on the bullshit he tries to peddle. -Joe ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2007, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-on-the-right-wing-daily-show-commercial-specifically/392091/154 "2007-02-15T20:23:44Z")
[QUOTE=Liberal] The question at this point, I suppose, is how long it will be before a leftist drops by who \*doesn’t \* run headlong into the broad brush that Woodstockbirdybird has assigned to me. [/QUOTE] I’m not getting this. Are you saying all the “leftists” in this thread (of which **Dead Badger** has already said he[?] is not a member, BTW) are displaying exactly the attitudes your generalization claimed? Or are you saying _you’re_ the one who’s being painted with a broad brush now? 'Cause I don’t see where you’re right on either point. You’re the one who automatically assigned motives to those who found this crap unfunny, and refused to believe anyone who said their lack of enjoyment could be based on anything other than blind partisanship. Others are calling you, however, on your own exact words, so I don’t see how you could read that as unjust persecution. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2007, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-on-the-right-wing-daily-show-commercial-specifically/392091/155 "2007-02-15T20:24:42Z")
[QUOTE=Merijeek] He doesn’t understand why the people of the SDMB… [/QUOTE] 😃 Ah, how delightfully (and typically) monomaniacal. You few are “the people of the SDMB”! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2007, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-on-the-right-wing-daily-show-commercial-specifically/392091/156 "2007-02-15T20:27:58Z")
[QUOTE=woodstockbirdybird] …so I don’t see how you could read that as unjust persecution. [/QUOTE] Me neither, seeing as how I didn’t and all. It was completely justified. Just because you have no grace or class doesn’t mean I feel any persecution from you. I feel vindication, if anything. You all just keep coming back to kick at the corpse. ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2007, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-on-the-right-wing-daily-show-commercial-specifically/392091/157 "2007-02-15T20:28:22Z")
[QUOTE=Liberal] 😃 Ah, how delightfully (and typically) monomaniacal. You few are “the people of the SDMB”! 😃 [/QUOTE] Isn’t it time for you to go into another one of your big speeches on how you’re not coming back because blah blah blah you think people actually care? How many tearful goodbyes have we gotten from you? Maybe you can finally commit? Time to show some of that personal growth! -Joe ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2007, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-on-the-right-wing-daily-show-commercial-specifically/392091/158 "2007-02-15T20:31:11Z")
[QUOTE=Merijeek] Isn’t it time for you to go into another one of your big speeches on how you’re not coming back because blah blah blah you think people actually care? How many tearful goodbyes have we gotten from you? Maybe you can finally commit? Time to show some of that personal growth! [/QUOTE] I can only dream of attaining half your level of growth and maturity. Do you give lessons? ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2007, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-on-the-right-wing-daily-show-commercial-specifically/392091/159 "2007-02-15T20:35:12Z")
Hey, I’ve got an idea! How about everybody stop whining about **Liberal** and we can go back to talking about, oh, I don’t know, the subject of the actual _OP_? Nah, too radical. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2007, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-on-the-right-wing-daily-show-commercial-specifically/392091/160 "2007-02-15T20:39:38Z")
[QUOTE=Captain Carrot] Nah, too radical. [/QUOTE] Certainly not as funny. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-on-the-right-wing-daily-show-commercial-specifically/392091.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-on-the-right-wing-daily-show-commercial-specifically/392091.md?page=9)