This is the thread for the Fox News "Daily Show for conservatives" thing

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The Uzbeck leader is on there, but isn't the guy from Turkmenistan also a real good candidate?

Uh, check the dude on the left.

Those books.

Weept.

isn't it distintly odd that they use this terminology. i can't fathom it.

It's like they finally grabbed onto the postmordernism/relativism that they decried for decades when they figured out they could use it as a club. There are no objective truths or facts, only a battle of opinions. Empiric reality doesn't matter, since facts & opinions are the same.

xp exactly

OTM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

These guys are the ULTIMATE relativists, they're not even aware of it most of the time.

But. That's a lot of layers of irony/ self-awareness that aren't evident elsewhere in that sketch; more than one layer anyway, which is as deep as the other jokes go at best. Specifically that RL line about the U.S.'s international reputation being a shambles after two years of a Democratic congress, cough cough. I almost think that the intent of the AC punchline was nothing more than "tweaking the left again with that great un-pc line about invading others people's countries,"
without the understanding of what they were actually suggesting. Could be wrong, but she says "invade your countries" instead of "invade your country," so it kinda looks like the latter case.

Very strange with this book -- Slate and the NY Times attack it for being too conservative and go on about how it's indicative of this and that and Hannity and so forth. But the conservatives who are attacking it seem to have a better point: the guy is not a conservative thinker, he's a bleedin' Confederate thinker. Total wack job. Didn't Slate of the Times read the book? There's your lead right there.

link to the RL/AC bit

That's right. A lot of conservative humor is based on the idea of offending liberal pc sensibilities, "throwing down the gauntlet."

"I just raped a bunch of baby seals"
"Har. Har. That'll really get 'em going."

All they need is like one disproving review, and it's "OMG, the liberal MSM went batshit crazy! Har har!"

That is, like, 80% of conservative humor.

To be fair, this distinction has been deliberately blurred for decades, from the segregation folks to the southern strategy to the "red state" thing.

Dude does tip his hand a bit much w/ the johnny reb officer on the cover.

They released "Female Chauvinist Pigs" with a different cover in America, then.

* Women’s lib has “liberated” men from having to commit, “freed” women from marriage, and often “unshackled” women from having a family.
* More than ever, women in their twenties and thirties live alone, are discarded by boyfriends after “living together,” and are watching their biological clocks tick past the point of no return.
* Women still prefer men who are breadwinners and can protect them physically.

TICK TICK TICK.

Silly 21st-Century feminists, burning their expensive bras & all that.

See what LUGs and vibrators hath wrought?

In that case that's gotta be the most OMGWTF-cosmically-insane thing ever, that Coulter and writers didn't get that she inadvertantly threatened to invade the U.S., kill U.S. leaders, convert U.S. citizens to Christianity, and so on. Mind blown, etc..

Uh, wtf, Dom, that book is nothing like what Ariel Levy is arguing.

But rightwingers on TV have a higher calling, you see, rather just really lazy and half-assed swipes at funnier people. They should get "get another shot at entertaining our own troops via TV and demonstrating that conservatives do, after all, possess a sense of humor."

Unfortunately, his tips for improving the show don't actually include "TAKE OUT THE RETARDED LAFFTRACK".

She isn't a leftist wacko. Maybe she is now. But back then she wasn't. Guess she is more an Indepedent.
posted by: on 10.17.04 at 07:22 PM [permalink]

And, uh, this...

what's up with the scar...if Tina is so gosh darn funny why doesn't she write a skit about that ax wound on her left cheek?
posted by: chris on 04.25.04 at 11:20 PM [permalink]

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Tina Fey is waiting for her Barbara Walter's special to tell us about her rape scar. This will cement a reverential and protective attitude towards her to the american public, allowing her to bombard us with further mediocrity for years to come.

In her crazy biz, even a knife rape is used for marketing leverage.

Tina, why are you in a business like that? Look what you've turned into.

Pimping your own rape scar!
posted by: Caterwall on 06.04.04 at 06:35 PM [permalink]

That is, like, 80% of conservative humor.

This mentality always reminded me of the stuff internet trolls say to convince themselves that they're funny.

Also, I'm pasting this here, since it fits in with the rest of what we've been talking about:

It takes a lot more integrity, character, and courage to be a conservative than it does to be a liberal. That's because at its most basic level, liberalism is nothing more than childlike emotionalism applied to adult issues...

JEd Babbin, who hasn't actually seen anything yet:

But the best part is that Ann Coulter -- yes, our Ann, HUMAN EVENTS legislative correspondent -- is in it. Is it funny? One gent e-mailed me to say that, "Critics are already calling it 'the funniest show ever produced by the FOX News Channel, not counting Geraldo.'"

Pop the corn, pour the wine, sit back and watch. Step aside, libs. It’s our turn.