You could probably make a case that Bill Maher is an unfunny blowhard who needs to get a hair cut and lose the 60 year playboy shtick, and you'd be right, but you'd also be missing the point. Maher may still be perceived primarily as an entertainer, but unlike his peers who go to great pains to point out that they're "only comedians," he also happens to not be a giant fucking pussy who confuses reasonableness for a compelling political viewpoint.
"Don't yell at each other" isn't a political argument, it's the equivalent of your 15 year old cousin wearing eyeliner and a Taking Back Sunday t-shirt to Thanksgiving dinner. It's hiding in your room when mommy and daddy are fighting about daddy's sleepover friend with the forty year old tramp stamp.
Keith Olbermann is right when he says he’s not the equivalent of Glenn Beck. One reports facts. The other one is very close to playing with his poop. And the big mistake of modern media has been this notion of balance for balance’s sake, that the left is just as violent and cruel as the right, that unions are just as powerful as corporations, that reverse racism is damaging as racism. There’s a difference between a “mad man” and a “madman”. […]
But the message of the rally as I heard it was that if the media would just stop giving voice to the crazies on both sides then maybe we could restore sanity. It was all nonpartisan and urged cooperation with the moderates on the other side, forgetting that Obama tried that and found out, there are no moderates on the other side. Crooks and Liars
In other words, if you want to cut my fucking head off and keep it in a freezer, but I'd prefer that you tucked me into bed at night with a kiss on the forehead, it doesn't count as compromise if you settle on chaining me to a pipe in the basement and putting hate babies in my mouth. I learned that in politics school, which is a real thing that exists. So, in summary, Jon Stewart is destroying America.
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5 comments:
Killt it.
I don't care if he doesn't want the job, he's got it. Do it right.
this is racist against comedians.
Some of my best friends are comedians.
Jon Stewart is a goddamned saint.
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