Damn it could VH1's Best Week Ever lay off the god damn RW talking points!

[Melodybe]

I like a few of the comediens on there and I can guareentee that they are all registered Democrats, so what the fuck is up with them spewing RW talking points every god damn week!

Today they had their comediens repeating the Edwards is not experienced meme.

ARG!

[AndyTiedye]

1. They Have Their Orders

If they want to appear on the Republican networks, they
have to act like Republicans.

[rinsd]

3. Republican network???

Viacom's CEO donations.

http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?st=NY&last=redstone&first=sumner

http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?st=MA&last=redstone&first=sumner

Only blemish is a donation to Hatch.

Viacom's hot bed of Republican Networks include MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central and that springboard of neocon talking point, BET.

[Melodybe]

4. I know the Viacom is our only big network, but my argument is

why can't they get someone who has read a newspaper?

ARg it is like Tough Crowd without the insufferable Collin Quinn.

[jdsmith]

2. Comedians and their audiences are lazy

Even a fairly bright person like Letterman (and his writers) will settle for the memes: Gore's a liar, Clinton would rather get laid than govern, Bush is a dope. But this kind of mindless comedy does nothing but congratulate an audience on being smart or hip enough to recognize cliches--a REAL danger given not only the active negatuve rhetorical campaign of Gore = liar, but perhaps more perniciously when the comedians get us to lower our expectations of Bush by telling us constantly what a dunce he is (and not what political genius lies behind pretending to be a doofus).

[THUNDER HANDS]

5. I disagree

If anyone is paying attention, its comedians. They have to read all this crap, interpret it, then make something funny out of it.


The last thing I'd call a comedian (at least a good one) is lazy.

[jdsmith]

7. So why is Letterman, eg, still harping on Clinton's sex life?

[Killarney]

6. is Joel Stein doing it?

he's pretty funny, but he's also a right-winger. He calls himself a libertarian, but he has filled in for people on right-wing radio before. He's the Time Columnist.