Comments on: MSNBC: Going Our Way?

by: erinyes

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 11:59:49 +0000

Right Moonbat, like the court jesters of olde………..

by: moonbat

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 00:15:19 +0000

What’s frightening, is that it seems like this generation’s comedians - Stewart, Colbert, others - were the first to speak out against the regime, a few years ago. It’s as though everyone was in frightened, paralyzed shock until these guys gave us permission to laugh and to feel.

by: Doug Hughes

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 23:34:13 +0000

I am (unfortunately) old enough to remember The Smothers Brothers, who were critical of Nixon with fantastic satire. They got cancelled at the top of their game because they would not submit tapes of their shows in time for the censors to clip out the best zingers. And despite the top ratings no other network would pick up the show.

Opposition to the ‘Nam war took many forms, and Barb has noted, not all were effective. But I remeber that my Dad, who was quite conservative, loved to watch the Smothers. Comedy is a vehcle for a message that’s easy to take. The best jabs get repeated at work or school, and the trend to question the motives and misteps of the administration is accelerated.

by: harmfulguy

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 23:11:45 +0000

Most newscasts have been fake for years. Stewart, Colbert, and friends are just the only ones paying enough attention to know that they’re lying.

by: moonbat

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 20:08:56 +0000

Rachel M and David S, in combo would be great. They could rotate the studio vs roving reporter gigs.

Jonah Goldberg - is there anything as pathetic as a right winger who doesn’t get the joke? And this guy does it regularly, in print, for all to see, in a major newspaper. The LAT has a lot of smart people (still), one wonders what the water cooler conversations are like.

It’s good (and funny) that MSNBC is bumbling its way toward the Light, or at least toward the light of greater ratings.

by: maha

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:40:43 +0000

I want a show with Rachel Maddow and David Schuster. Rachel could anchor in the studio and David could be like the roving reporter doing special features and interviews.

by: captcoyote

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:35:56 +0000

I was just going to say that Rachel Maddow should have her own news show on TV. So let me say, “I second that idea!”

by: whig

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:18:26 +0000

Rachel Maddow would be a great pick.

by: Sammy

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 17:48:26 +0000

Oh my god. I never took Roy Edroso’s rule on Jonah Goldberg’s work (”The stupidest thing ever written, until he writes again, after which that will become the stupidest thing ever written”) literally, but…

Seriously now. It’s too much to ask that Goldberg understand how ridiculous his premise is, but couldn’t he at least not contradict himself in consecutive sentences?

When Brown had a baby out of wedlock, Vice President Dan Quayle criticized the writers of the show. Liberals then reacted as though Quayle had insulted a real person.

The writers aren’t real people?