Posted: 10/5/2008 11:32:21 AM EDT
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So Stewart is quite leftist, but even he has been poking fun at the Dems most of the year... Colbert, on the other hand, a die hard Republican...yet it seems like every episode he is bashing Palin...whats up with that? The left is so far left that the right has to swing left to keep the balance? |
seriously? wow....... 
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It's called satire... |
 I've always known there was a percentage of republicans, not a big percentage mind you, roughly the same as the percentage who still believe Bush is a great president, maybe even the same people, who believe Colbert is actually a conservative... But it's still F'n hilarious every time I hear it. |
Colbert is doing an act. His TV "persona" is to be an outlandish, over-the-top Republican pundit, he's playing a character. He, in real life, is very much a liberal and has talked in detail about it. I can't believe people actually get sucked into satire like that. 
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Colbert may actually be more liberal than stewart. I also have to give credit to stewart for SOMETIMES trying to actually get some news out there. Colbert's show is 100% about him. I've actually learned from the Daily Show. Like when he has retired military on the show who are publishing books. |
I dont get it. All the news shows are similar, someone with an agenda telling you what they think about events as they happen. Stewart is at least funny about it and doesn't try to hide his agendas or try to maintain a false sense of professionalism. |
Stewart/Colbert are just a wing of the liberal MSM meant to reach the average 20 something stoner who could care less about politics, and influence them into voting (D) under the guise of "comedy". |
Which is all controlled from a secret bunker where Lenin decides what to put on all 950 channels on direcTV while undergoing dialysis and a constant supply of intravenous stem cells so that he may live forever !!!!!! Muahahaha. Propaganda is propaganda is propaganda. You're gonna watch it no matter where you go, may as well be entertained. Unless, of course you know about some secret news source with no bias..... |
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So you dont think that the John Stewart isn't trying to effect the outcome of this election? |
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This is where I disagree. I think a lot of the people who watch that show have no opinion, and werent going to vote, so they paint everything right wing in the worst light possible. |
Shit, who isn't? But the main thing here is that he does take cracks at both sides albeit he does take more against the republicans. Also he is pretty damn funny which I know that a bunch of people here won't agree with because as soon as anything is said/done mocking republicans a bunch of people here get all bent out of shape and start crying worse than a toddler. It amazes me how thin skinned people are on here at times. As evidenced by all the Palin threads that pop up anytime she is brought up in the media. Some people here react like someone just walked up and bitch slapped their mother in front of them. But I digress. I think he is funny and I take the cracks at the republican party with a grain of salt. I have always voted republican and more than likely will till I die even though there are several things I don't agree with about the party. |
Yah, if you watch Colbert and dont get that he is making fun of conservatives you need a serious reality check. |
The problem isn't that he's blasting the republicans. Its that people consider it a reliable news source. |
You think so therefore it is huh? Well, pretty much all my friends and I watch Stewart and all of us are republicans and have voted republican since we could vote. But this plays right into my point of people getting but hurt everytime there is a crack against republicans. What's funny is that a lot of people who get all up in arms and start saying that a show is crap haven't watched it in YEARS or EVER. You THOUGHT wrong. |
Fair enough. I really don't know the dynamics of the viewers of the show but if I had to take a guess I would say the majority would be between 16-25 years of age. Most of the younger people (disregarding those who post here her In the end I do think most voters relieze that it is indeed at farce and that they do get their political info from a better source then those shows. Although if they don't there are far worse alternatives. Hell at least the Daily show blasts hippies. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP26f3BYdWI |
Any regular viewer of The Daily Show knows that it is a comedy program loosely based on making fun of current events in the news. |
My BIL and the rest of his stoner friends use it as their only news source. I don't know how many times I've heard "but I saw on the daily show..." come out of their mouths.
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Hey, there are dumbasses all over. Not much you can do about that. |
A classic! Both shows are met to be parodies of the news, they are comedies. Yes, both are liberals, but even they know that they left have gone too far! |
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John Stewart pwning CNN's Crossfire hosts. This is still the funniest 14 minutes of television I've ever watched. |