While we always worry when we find ourselves in agreement with Mediaite, we are happy to see the idea we promoted last week picking up some steam. And nothing doubles our resolve in seeing “Red Eye” moved to a more prominent Fox News Channel time slot than what we’re witnessing this week at the hands of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. With 2012 looming, the Right desperately needs a dog in this satirical fight, preferrably one that’s allowed to howl before 3 a.m.

The only thing more maddening than not having a weapon, is having a weapon that’s not being used properly. In the form of the “Red Eye” crew, Fox News has a proven talent at their disposal and there’s obviously a market for a primetime, satirical look at the day’s events. Does anyone doubt that Colbert and Stewart’s relentless leftism drives people away? And anyone who’s seen an episode of “Red Eye” knows there’s no one better suited to pick that audience up than Greg Gutfeld.  

Mediaite’s Matt Schneider makes the same case:

First, why does Red Eye deserve the larger audience that would no doubt be waiting for it at an earlier time slot? Besides regularly featuring intelligent debates, provocative guests and hilarious comedy bits, Red Eye is unique in that it is basically the only conservative answer to many left-leaning successful comedy shows like Real Time with Bill Maher, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report. Today’s generation of young information seekers often prefer to be entertained while getting the news and Maher, Stewart and Colbert can often be the only means by which some young people stay informed. Red Eye can serve a similar purpose and fill the comedic void that young conservative-leaning Americans no doubt desire.

That’s true to a point but there’s something bigger and more important to consider here. The mainstream media  — and that includes Mediaite — uses the likes of Colbert, Stewart, and SNL as weapons to bludgeon conservatives with. Call it the Tina Fey Factor. These entertainers know and count on the news media viralizing their most potent attacks against the right — and the news media never fails to comply. With a potent talent like Gutfeld in a slot that doesn’t require DVR viewing the next day after the news cycle has already moved on, right-of-center ideas have a real chance at earning a seat at this table.

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UPDATE: It looks as though it’s possible to make the case the case that Kyl was correct – if so, my apologies to the Senator. If this is the case, it only makes Colbert and his left-wing allies in the MSM all the more insidious. 

2nd Update: After looking at everything closely (life moves pretty fast on these here Internets), I have to go with my original impression that Kyl was simply wrong about PP and that the response from his office only made things worse.

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Here’s the rundown: Republican Senator Jon Kyl said something that isn’t true (that 90% of what Planned Parenthood does is abortions), Colbert nails him on it, and then Kyl’s office doubles down with this incredibly lame statement…

[H]is remark was not intended to be a factual statement, but rather to illustrate that Planned Parenthood, an organization that receives millions of taxpayer dollars, does subsidize abortions.

…and now Colbert’s having a field day and , naturally, the Leftist MSM’s picking it up and helping to viralize the attack. Before we get started, however, don’t ask me to defend Kyl. He’s a United States Senator entitled to a mistake but not entitled to be ignorant of the fact that when a Leftist like Stephen Colbert has his teeth in you, you better not throw him more meat.

Bottom line, though, is that this Colbert using the power of popular culture to practice Alinsky tactics — and doing so very effectively. Politicians lie and say ridiculous things every day, especially Democrats who know they can wield hyperbole about Republicans wanting to “kill women“ with little fear of any kind of real accountability from their pals in the MSM. But Colbert and Comedy Central choose to isolate and mock Kyl, the MSM runs wild with it, and a very powerful message gets out that hurts Republicans and helps the abortionists at Planned Parenthood.

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I’m starting to doubt if Colbert is a real conservative or just an angry left-wing comedian pretending to be one. Anyone else getting that vibe?

After all, would a real conservative get their news from NPR? How else to explain Colbert’s completely false claim that O’Keefe plead guilty to “tapping” Senator Mary Landrieu’s phone?

Should we send Retracto after Colbert…?

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After Roger Ebert, Jane Fonda, Michael Moore, Elizabeth Banks, and a host of other celeb vultures descended on the murdered and wounded in Arizona for a partisan political feast, if what we’re seeing from The View, Jon Stewart, and Stephen Colbert is any kind of indication, the entertainment community as a whole appears to have sensed the backlash and decided to cool off.

Good.

It would have been nice if the left would’ve allowed us to come together as a nation and grieve on Saturday, but better late than never.

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If you hadn’t had the opportunity yet, I urge you to head on over to Big Government to check out the Pigford series unfurling today. I would start with Andrew Breitbart’s anchor piece, jump into this superb piece of investigative journalism by Breitbart, Big Peace editor Peter Schweizer and Gary Hewson, and then keep refreshing. Much more there, much more to come.

As someone who’s not a regular watcher of Stephen Colbert I have to say this clip surprised me. I thought he was supposed to be impersonating Bill O’Reilly. All I saw was Jon Stewart in a better suit and nerd-glasses.

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Anyway, in the Comedy Central Dynamic Duo’s usual role of being incurious, knee-jerk protectors of all things Big Fat Federal Government, all you have here is Colbert fulfilling that role with the usual-usual we see from the left. In three words his argument is: race-race-race. Colbert’s not interested in the facts or anyone’s point of view or arguments – unless, of course, they fit his tight little leftist narrative. His idea of satire is thimble deep; if someone says a minority group was oppressed, we must write a check and write it now… 

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Remember when American comedians went after the powerful in an effort to bring them down to earth with the sharp satire of accountability? Today, they appear to only protect the powerful. Well, unless the powerful aren’t liberal enough. As things stand now you have the likes of David Letterman and Louis C.K. savaging Sarah Palin’s family, SNL terrified to rip Obama with any real zeal, cartoonists proclaiming President Teleprompter too cool to mock, and Will Ferrell films flaking for corrupt public unions, all in an effort to protect the corrupted leftist elitists currently holding power.

It’s like we now live in an alternate universe you might call … North Korea.

In desperate Hail Mary moves to protect Obama and Democrats from what’s looking like a November rout, three of the left’s most beloved Palace Guards have just upped their game considerably. Bill Maher’s now openly blackmailing Delaware Republican Senate Candidate Christine O’Donnell, threatening a weekly drip-drip-drip of videos he thinks will ruin her candidacy unless she agrees to appear on his show – which is where he’ll really pull out the stops to finally win that Emmy by attempting to destroy her:

ABC News:

On Friday, Maher released on his new HBO show, “Real Time,” an unaired clip of O’Donnell admitting to a brief dalliance with witchcraft.

“I dabbled into witchcraft — I never joined a coven. But I did, I did. I dabbled into witchcraft. I hung around people who were doing these things. I’m not making this stuff up. I know what they told me they do,” she said.

“One of my first dates with a witch was on a satanic altar, and I didn’t know it. I mean, there’s little blood there and stuff like that,” she said. “We went to a movie and then had a midnight picnic on a satanic altar.”

O’Donnell appeared on the political talk show on 22 different episodes, and Maher has said he will air a clip of O’Donnell every week until she agrees to appear on his show.

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Colbert trashes the Tea Party movement and then moves on to call Sarah Palin a “retard” — one of those moments that makes you wonder just when and how our Comedian Class became the very elites they used to deconstruct. 

As Bill O’Reilly said last night, you don’t have to agree with the Tea Party movement’s agenda in order to respect the fact that it’s a real grassroots movement populated by everyday citizens eager to get involved and have their voices heard. (more…)

Yes, you’ve read correctly. To all of you GOP types playing the “offended” card on a daily basis… Prepare to have your feelings hurt, because according to my carefully calculated research… Republicans need to shut up and laugh a little.

Never has the GOP’s lack of funnybone been on sharper display than the last 5 months. For a party that claims to “shun political correctness,” we’ve certainly done a good job of embracing it. Over the past 150 days there have been three “media-worthy” politically incorrect moments related to this administration and Republicans have managed to jump on each one of them for political gain. All to no avail. Let us examine:

Exhibit A

Barack Obama’s Special Olympics comment on Leno. – On air, President B. Hussein Obama made a self-deprecating joke in regards to his bowling abilities. He made the implication that he was so bad at bowling that his skill level resembled that of a mentally challenged athlete. Twas a surprisingly funny, off-handed moment for a generally very unfunny president.

Republicans, however, decided to act as though they were appalled by this and ran with the “you can’t make fun of retards” theme. (I’m paraphrasing here of course, but you get the picture.) I believe that somewhere in the middle, Sarah Palin and her son Trigg were tied into the whole fiasco. The media took little notice and sharp comedians like Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert managed to successfully lampoon Conservatives for being humorless old bags. That’s one for you, Democrats… (more…)