If only someone had started a Pit thread about this back in November when the story first broke.
Is that what we call a Fox pas?
I’m sorry, is there some rule or custom about recurring events, and recurring threads? Please be advised that your participation is entirely voluntary.
Over the previous two years the Daily Show hasn’t actually attacked ideas or principles of the Democratic party per se, but they have characterized the party as basically spineless, weak, non-commital, and afraid to speak their true feelings. That seems fairly damning to me.
I’d say that’s the last six years, not two.
Seriously. I’ve never gotten the appeal of Coulter even if the political element were completely removed. She just looks homely to me. In fact, she looks like a homely woman who’s trying to look like a sex symbol, a-la Sara Jessica Parker, which I think is even worse. A less bombastic hairstyle would suit her a lot better.
When it comes to right-wing women, I’d vote for Pat Robertson if it meant I could have an hour alone with Michelle Malkin. I bet she’d convert to the light side after that. Of course, then I’d be in trouble with another hot Filipina - my girlfriend!
You miss the point, Ted. It’s not that Coulter is the hottest right-wing nutter, it is that she is the nuttiest right-wing hottie. That, as they say, makes all the difference.
If all I wanted was hot, I could turn the dial to CNN (Heidi Collins, Robin Meade, et. al.)
Is there a rule against pointing out that you’ve already done this before? What’s wrong, 'luc, getting a little senile? 
The Daily Show is definitely left of center, but they surprise me sometimes. For example, in the wake of the Newdow pledge-of-allegiance lawsuit, I tuned in, expecting Stewart to fire a volley for seperation of church and state. Instead, he totally blasted Newdow.
They do criticize Democrats, perhaps less for ideological reasons and more for personal things, but they don’t shy away from it. There’s no way that getting a Democrat president is going to kill the show. It’s true that Bush is a fountain of material, but they won’t have any problem finding other stuff.
Let me chime in saying ditto and supporting this assertion. This show could be funny and entertaining, just like the Daily Show, IF they stick to satire, pointing out hypocrisy in government and exposing extremists for what they really are (crackpots).
However, I believe you may see more of the veiled hatred and bitterness. Look at it already, they have lined up well-known rightist figureheads. Prior to the Daily Show, many of the people on it were unknowns. They did not appear to have an agenda of “liberalism”, rather they were offering comic relief in a time when the media had become the dogs of the state. As Jon Stewart said on Hardball I think (paraphrased) “If you wanna compare your news show to my show, which follows another show about puppets making prank phone calls, then feel free to do so”.
As long as this new right wing show could follow a line-up of puppets making prank phone calls, then it will be good. Otherwise, it will just be another voice of the Right in this society trying to reach a demographic they miss frequently- Intelligent people with a sense of humor.
BTW- Give the right-wing media credit here, they have a proven recent history of getting a message out to a significant audience.
The problem as I see it is that there are people on both sides who can only be amused when someone elses ox is being gored. It’s all fun and games until the butcher approaches their ideological herd.
I happen to be right of center on most issues, so I find the “Bush mispronounced a word today…hee hee hee” schtick predictable and tiresome. We’ll see if this new show can do better. I hope so…but it should find enough of an audience to sustain it without much trouble.
Even if I were straight and Coulter were human there’s no way I could find her attractive. I’m sure I’m not the only person who thinks she looks anorexic (or at very least unhealthily thin of a sort not achieved by natural disposition) and even she admits that she lives on a diet of cigarettes and coffee so she probably has odor and leather-skin happening, then there’s the fact she’s the media equivalent of circus geek who’d bite the heads off of baby ferrets if it’d get her screen time and keep those $75,000 20 minute speaking engagements coming.
I don’t think that a right-wing comedy program is inconceivable and it could even be good, but I just don’t see it being on par with TDS or Colbert. Also, a “don’t fire” orders they seem to have for the president would seem to limit comedy potential in anything dealing with the presidency and if it does fire on the president then it’s not really right wing.
I don’t know if O’ Rourke would be sufficiently right-wing enough to the doctrinaire conservatives who devoutly watch Fox News. He detests the Religious Right and has a Libertarian aspect to his opinions that would make many hardcore Republicans uncomfortable. Also, O’ Rourke is not afraid to take pot shots at fellow conservatives if they say or do something he thinks is stupid and that’s something many Fox News viewers would find intolerable.
How do we know that?
Where do you get the idea that people who watch FoxNews are all bible thumping conservatives who can’t stomach anyone who dares to challenge a Republican? I know it’s common around here to think that Fox is the right-wing television equivalent of Pravda, but it’s really not all that different from the other cable news stations.
Wait, the Daily Show is left-wing? OK, maybe I can see it a little. But they are pretty good at poking fun at everybody all-inclusive.
Plus we already have the Colbert Report… which, while really a satire on satire, pretends to be right-wing sometimes.
That’s true. Unfortunately.
Sure, Fox News might toe the Republican Party line a little more closely, but in terms of general news values and journalistic integrity, CNN and MSNBC give it quite a run for its money. They’re all godawful.
Perhaps we just assume, rightly or wrongly, some similarity between Bill O’Reilly and his target audience.
The “You kids get off my lawn!” Republicans.
Well, Greg Gutfeld is involved with this project, and he’s really funny. Unfortunately, the thing is on way past my bedtime.
I hope it succeeds well enough to be moved up, or that I become motivated to record it.