‘NewsBusted’ 3/10/09 — Fake News from the Right
by Eric PeterkofskyIn this episode, NewsBusted covers: President Obama, Rush Limbaugh, Chandra Levy, Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Netflix, Jeopardy!, Teleprompters, McDonald’s, Chicken McNuggets, Dakota Fanning, and R. Kelly.
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Fox News tried a 30 minute conservative themed comedy last year; Rush actually did a couple of episodes.
Best of which was Rush as President and Ann Coulter as SecDef (I think) and was actually pretty good… as time passes and the current occupants try to ram more Stasi-style statism down our collective throats, one assumes even comedy will reflect the country's mood- which could be decidedly, ahem, agitated…
Yeah that's some scathing stuff there, especially the four year old dig at R Kelly
I heard one of the major networks is working on a new show based on Obama: "Have Teleprompter, Will Travel."
"Guest murderer." Awesome.
I think it would be better without the laugh track.
I agree, I hate the laugh track. But this is a low budget operation. I saw the Fox News show but it just didn't belong on a news network and it had a stupid laugh track as well. Bring Redeye to eleven. Somehow that show does seem to work.
+1 on an earlier Redeye. There were two jokes in that 2:30 clip that even got a chuckle from me. "Guest Murderer", and the Netflix envelopes. Where are the really talented right-wing comedians?
This week was better than the last one I viewed…not sure why. It's not like I am in a better mood politically, most certainly I am not but her timing was better as was the writing. Mean is part of life, there's a mean left a mean center and a mean right, know what I mean?!
Totally awesome! Undocumented Demon.
Agree, the Netflix envelopes was superb…um, washing dishes maybe!
This is growing on me. I think it's funny. I especially liked the Netflix bit. Priceless.
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This is a great idea, but they should lose the laugh track. It says, "this isn't really funny enough to laugh at, so we have to tell you when to do it". She should master some punch-line facial expressions instead. Timing. Pause. She can do it.
This is not funny at all. It's one bad joke after the other. None of it makes sense. And the laugh track makes the whole thing seem sinister. Give it up. It sucks.
That might be a reality show worth watching.
Like I said last week, I wouldn't look for MRC to "give it up." They have been doing this a looonng time. If you go to their site or Newsbusters, you will see a listing for years worth. I liked the 1/2 hr comedy hr, especially the Dennis Miller rants and the Rush-Pres/Coutler-VPres. bits. I think it would work if they expanded it and made it a slicker show, put it on at 11-12, then run Redeye right behind it. Love the Redeye. I would love to see more Miller on tv. He is funny on O'Reilly, but it is too short, and O'Reilly doesn't do that kind of stuff well.
LAME!
Sinister? Or is that just us hard-working capitalist oppressors in general?
See? I can do the Alinskyite 'ridicule' thing too. Fun for the whole family.
"Guest Murderer" is a classic…. the left ignores anything that they stand for, especially when it backfires..such as the live birth in FLA where the kind doc threw the baby in the red bag trash….can you imagine what would happen if GW Bush had given Blair a bunch of DVDs??? Obama, he's too tasteless to even learn at this point.
OK, Reasonsjester I'll take back the 'sinister', but why do you term 'ridicule' of right wing policy termed 'Alinskyite', while you might not say the same about Rush and Hannity, who do their fare share of ridicule? I'm just curious. Actually, I think ridicule is fine if it's funny, left or right. I love Dennis Miller, for example, who does track right. Newsbusted just plain ain't funny, though. It seems nothing but desperate and dumb.
P.S. I am a company manager and long-time 'capitalist'.
P.S. There was nothing wrong with Saul Alinsky. Those who blindly fear him should read about him (read the wiki for a short primer). He's been made a false symbol for those wishing to show themselves as 'anti-socialist'. It is difficult, I know, to separate the concepts of 'social justice' and 'socialism'. The words sound suspiciously similar, but they are quite different. Alinsky was actually a capitalist and attempted to use capitalism to help labor. In this way, he was more of a republican, but because he is aligned with the 'social justice' movement of the 60's, he tends to be maligned by the right and an easy symbol of things they want to show they are against. Republicans and democrats have both been champions of social justice depending on who the recipient is. After all, the U.S. Constitution is all about social justice. Unfortunately, both parties are selective rather than global in their efforts, but what else is new?
You guys are missing the point of the laugh track. It simulates the live audience shows like The Daily Show, and the late night shows. Or the The Weekend Report on SNL. If it was just a canned laugh track I would agree, but the applause and laughs make it feel like it is happening live.
LOL Liberals always deny being liberal.
Meh. I appreciated the shots, but "guest murderer" was the only thing that made me actually laugh. I think there's a market for a conservative-viewpoint comedy show, but it needs to actually be funny before it could possibly take off.
It will be very hard for a Conservative comedy show to compete with the likes of MSNBC and CNN, who have a 24 hour comedy schedule.
Mike, Mike…you do not understand the term "social justice".
Social justice as used in the context that it was in the 1960s referred to the government assuring an "equal" outcome for various "disadvantaged" peoples by taking economic capital from the "rich" and transferring it to them. The "justice" in it is inferring that without economic assistance, these people will not be able to obtain a reasonable outcome for their life for various reasons.
The United States Constitution had nothing to do with this meaning of "social justice". The Constitution was created to specify and enumerate powers to the Federal government that were not reserved by the people, period. It's only intention was to create a government that was more capable than the used one under the Articles of Confederation, but that still respected the liberty, freedom and responsibility of the states and the individual. The document was very nearly not adopted because it was widely perceived as being TOO invasive upon the life and rights of the states and individual. Only with the lengthy persuasion of several of the founding fathers, and the guarantee a "Bill of Rights" would be adopted, was it agreed upon and ratified.
It was never intended nor does it ever speak to the concept of "social justice" as someone like Saul Alinsky would understand it. The people were trying to get away from a powerful state, which is why we formed a Republic and adopted Capitalism (instead of mercantilism, which was popular in that day). The document is not compatible with the leftist's idea of "social justice".
As for the video, I agree with farmer Joe. There are obviously political shots being taken, but they're just not funny. Many of them could be funny with a little work, but the delivery just wasn't there. I agree with all of these positions, and it was still annoying.
The laugh track is suppose to be annoying, it is a parody of the lousy SNL segments that people still watch.
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