the whole colbert thing

[rone]

Amidst the fawning of the moonbats and the shrill criticism of the wingnuts over Colbert's performance, the point is lost that satire isn't necessarily funny.  I thought Colbert's speech was really well delivered and hit all the spots it wanted.  Chutzpah, yes.  Courage, no.  Biting satire, yes.  Funny, rarely.  To claim that Colbert "was hilarious" or "bombed" is to misunderstand what he was doing; it wasn't stand-up, it was put-down.

And while one person thinks that "it's a failing prospect to attempt to direct satire at those who are beyond it," i say that perhaps he's confused about who the satire is directed at.  While Bush and the media were the subjects of the satire, that doesn't mean that they're the targets.  The target is, as always, the American people.  (Yes, i know, "But they're beyond satire!"  I disagree.)

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Re: what was it that Jon Stewart shareed...

[drieuxster.livejournal.com]

Ok... what if you are simply WRONG?

that there IS no need for anything like 'integrity' when one is a Performance Artists, like Tucker Carlsen, or HanoiAnnie Coulter? That all one needs to be is a bleater of the Party Line!

Think about the grand stoopidity of the freaks over at townhall who want to play act as IF they are journalists, while at the same time supporting the folks who want to simply kill journalists because majikally journalists, like the 1st ammendment protections for a free press, are a threat.

So ending comedy shows like CrossFire or any of the other products out there where alledged conservatives are merely blind bleaters of the NeoCon Dogma is all that is required! No matter how much that Dogma rests on Hating America, and Hating those of us who served to keep it freee!!!

Hum???