Comments on: Move Over Talk Radio – Comedy Needs the Fairness Doctrine

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By: Rush Limbaugh and the Main Stream News « MN Prager Discussion Group

Rush Limbaugh and the Main Stream News « MN Prager Discussion Group — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 05:25:14 +0000

[...] LAST UPDATE: It is worth noting, as a kind of macabre footnote, that CNN found it worthwhile to “fact check” Saturday Night Live when that program had the temerity to ridicule CNN’s President, The One. Maybe CNN could [...]

By: rjc

rjc — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:45:06 +0000

I don't know if I see it… Sure Jon Stewart criticized CNN for fact-checking a SNL sketch, but the rest of the examples he gave were of how CNN was not fact checking republicans or conservatives either. They are never going to just come out and attack their own liberal media friends. Basically Stewart's message was "Get the focus off of Obama (good or bad) and put it back on the republicans, where it belongs".

I think this article has its heart in the right place but I don't see comedians breaking away from Obama any time soon. That sketch about Obama's failing report card was simply to test the waters, and I think it was a one time thing. The following week when they "mocked" his Nobel Peace Prize win, it was nothing but love taps. They just can't go there, even if sadistically fascinated by the idea. And if you watched the rest of the show, they just laid into Limbaugh, to compensate for the previous week's attack on Obama.

The thrust of the article seems to be that now that comedians are being told that they CAN'T make fun of Obama (which they don't really want to any way) that this will spur them on to do it in a spirit of rebellion. But liberals are conformists, and they believe in a cohesive message, and they believe in restricting free speech if it's for the greater good.

By: Team Obama beclowns itself again « DPGI – the aftermath

Team Obama beclowns itself again « DPGI – the aftermath — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:32:25 +0000

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By: EdSki

EdSki — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:05:45 +0000

It won't end then either, just go into hibernation.

By: No_Big_Gov

No_Big_Gov — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:00:09 +0000

SNL stopped being funny when Sandler, Myers, Carvey, Spade and Farley left.

By: No_Big_Gov

No_Big_Gov — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:56:58 +0000

The softball game will never end while The O is in office.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:48:29 +0000

I think O'Reilly's got that covered.

Idiots not wearing clothes
Celebrities engaging in rows
He'll play it-no spin
The ratings, he'll win
The viewers have a right to know.

naked people in the news
viewer discretion's advised
Bill's got it covered.

By: EdSki

EdSki — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:05:59 +0000

I don't know a lot of conservatives – I live in NY – and most of my interaction with them is on the internet at sites like this one.

I have to say, the only touchiness I've noticed is over the obvious bias in comedy these days.

I've seen taped specials of Jeff Foxworthy down in Atlanta do his red neck jokes, and they loved it.