Where Do You Stand? (2016 Election)
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I was referring to Cruz elbowing his wife in the face.
"A new 'Dei' is dawning on America!"
Good.
GasBandit
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Now, if only Bernie would decide, after Hillary finishes cheating her way to the nomination, to ALSO run as an independent...
We could see some REALLY fun shit.
She would kill him before she allowed him to do that.
GasBandit
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I think you mean he would commit suicide, then change clothes and go to the park, right?
The fact that DONALD TRUMP is still alive after months of this shit is testament to the unwillingness of ether party to resort to violence at this point.
GasBandit
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I love that the first comment on it is "pointing out" that it's a mexican holiday, when really, it isn't.
Yeah, that's both true and untrue. It's not a major holiday in all of Mexico - it's more localized to Veracruz and Puebla - but it's more of a celebration for Mexican-Americans than, say, Puerto Ricans, Cubans, Colombians, Dominicans, Hondurans, etc.
My mother-in-law is a pretty dyed-in-the-wool Republican. I don't think we agree on many topics.
Throughout this election she's been pretty ornery about Trump, but was sure he wasn't going to stay in this long. Today she told my SO that if the election is Trump v. Hillary, she's voting for Clinton.
We live in interesting times.
Throughout this election she's been pretty ornery about Trump, but was sure he wasn't going to stay in this long. Today she told my SO that if the election is Trump v. Hillary, she's voting for Clinton.
We live in interesting times.
GasBandit
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Nah, I stopped watching the Daily Show when Craig Kilborn left.
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I stopped watching when Jon Stewart left, so I feel ya there.
So when was this Kilborn dude in charge? The 1920's?
GasBandit
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He was the first host, from 1996-1998. A lot less of a political mouthpiece.
Which is ironic because the Daily Show didn't really enter into it's prime UNTIL Jon Stewart. You gotta remember than Jon had that show for a full two years before Bush came around... and that guys like Steve Carell (1999) and Stephen Colbert (1997, though he was on Strangers With Candy at the same time) and Mo Rocca (1998) were around before they made their bones during the Bush administration.
GasBandit
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If by "enter into its prime" you mean veered hard left and started using the Dubya presidency as a punching bag, reporting "news" with a heavy leftist slant and retreating behind the premise of "but we're just a comedy show" when they were called on it.
Your dittohead is showing.
Also, now we're fact-checking lunches.
Also also, I never thought I'd say this, but I want to buy John Boehner a beer...
(skip to ~6:30 to avoid Kasich's rambling.)
I would argue that the Daily Show always portrayed itself as a comedic news shows, written by a staff of comedians, and that it's left slant was a result of being written by a group of said comedians who were masters of their craft and who had honed that craft in NYC, a long time liberal stronghold. American Comedy has always had an anti-authoritarian bent... it's heroes are always the oppressed, not the oppressor. The Atlantic has a great article about this. Ultimately, the success of the Daily Show's political skewering is based entirely on the fact that the Conservatives make it easy to make fun of them and that it's VERY hard to make fun of Conservative targets without coming off like a heartless asshole. Guys that can (Colin Quinn, Dennis Leary, Christopher Titus) are personal heroes of mine for doing the impossible and reveling in the worst the world has to offer. It personally doesn't bother me (I'm a CONNOISSEUR of the Dead Baby Joke) but I understand that some people have trouble finding humor in the inherent cruelty of man. Maybe if more did then Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn would still be around.
As for using the Dubya presidency as a punching bag... if they had stopped throwing them soft pitches, maybe they would have stopped hitting them out of the park. That the G.W.B presidency is going to be remembered for it's complete failures as a governing body is as much on them being wildly corrupt and incompetent as leaders as it is on the Daily Show for pointing out that fact. That the Obama Administration is going to be remembered for much of the same reasons is on them as well.
I know a lot of the younger people today don't remember the Bush years too clearly, they were just little kids, but I don't think the rest of us should forget how inept they were.
Anyone who watches the Daily Show will see they do make fun of the left, just not in a 50:50 ratio with the right.
Anyone who watches the Daily Show will see they do make fun of the left, just not in a 50:50 ratio with the right.
Or how much of a punching bag Clinton was for things like Politically Incorrect, SNL, Letterman, and Leno. You know... when all of those shows were still relevant and/or on the air.