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[Pico and ME]

Originally Posted by jinx

I prefer Louis CK to any of the above.
Funny how politically polarizing Stewart the comedian is.

My new favorite is Greg Warren. I just saw him in Indy at the Bob and Tom Comedy All Star Tour. He does a really funny bit about 1 star people in 4 star hotels.

Jinx, my point is that I find that I don't care for right-wing comedians...I find them arrogant...I really hate Dennis Miller. (Actually his style comes off as hateful to me) So it just makes me wonder if that is why you dont like Stewarts political humor, because its not your politics.

eta: I use to like Dennis Miller.

[jinx]

Originally Posted by Pico and ME

Jinx, my point is that I find that I don't care for right-wing comedians...I find them arrogant...I really hate Dennis Miller. (Actually his style comes off as hateful to me) So it just makes me wonder if that is why you dont like Stewarts political humor, because its not your politics.

What are my politics? As far as I know, I've got some from both sides...
Really, I just don't like infotainment in general. Takes the funny out of it for me. I say "arrogant" because as much as conservative like to be told they are morally correct, liberals like to be told they are smarter than conservatives. I just see the Daily Show as catering to that.

[morethanpretty]

Originally Posted by jinx

What are my politics? As far as I know, I've got some from both sides...
Really, I just don't like infotainment in general. Takes the funny out of it for me. I say "arrogant" because as much as conservative like to be told they are morally correct, liberals like to be told they are smarter than conservatives. I just see the Daily Show as catering to that.

The Daily Show makes fun of BOTH sides of the aisle. How is it catering to liberals if its makes fun of them?

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by morethanpretty

The Daily Show makes fun of BOTH sides of the aisle. How is it catering to liberals if its makes fun of them?

I understand what you mean. Then again, I'm iberal.

[Shawnee123]

Originally Posted by Spexxvet

I understand what you mean. Then again, I'm iberal.

You're iberian?

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by Shawnee123

You're iberian?

iberal. It's being Liberal without the

[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by morethanpretty

The Daily Show makes fun of BOTH sides of the aisle. How is it catering to liberals if its makes fun of them?

They made a union rep try to crawl out of his skin last night. The union had hired non-union temp workers at minimum wage with no benefits and low hours to picket Wal-Mart's lack of unions and benefits, and their hour cutbacks.

[footfootfoot]

Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

They made a union rep try to crawl out of his skin last night. The union had hired non-union temp workers at minimum wage with no benefits and low hours to picket Wal-Mart's lack of unions and benefits, and their hour cutbacks.

How did I miss that?

[Pico and ME]

Originally Posted by jinx

What are my politics? As far as I know, I've got some from both sides...
Really, I just don't like infotainment in general. Takes the funny out of it for me. I say "arrogant" because as much as conservative like to be told they are morally correct, liberals like to be told they are smarter than conservatives. I just see the Daily Show as catering to that.

I figured it was the elitist liberal business. I cant deny your point, there. I guess then, most of the moderates and independents who like watching the show are really closet liberals.

[classicman]

Originally Posted by jinx

liberals like to think they are smarter than conservatives. I just see the Daily Show as catering to that.

Fixed that for ya, and I agree.

I'm still pondering on how watching a dog play in the snow is political and comparable to this at all. My conclusion thus far is FAIL.

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by classicman

Fixed that for ya, and I agree.

I'm still pondering on how watching a dog play in the snow is political and comparable to this at all. My conclusion thus far is FAIL.

Smart people are more likely to be Liberals than conservatives.

The short answer: Kanazawa's paper shows that more-intelligent people are more likely to say they are liberal. They are also less likely to say they go to religious services. These aren't entirely new findings; last year, for example, a British team found that kids with higher intelligence scores were more likely to grow into adults who vote for Liberal Democrats, even after the researchers controlled for socioeconomics.

[Spexxvet]

Here's another study

Analyses of large representative samples, from both the United States and the United Kingdom, confirm this prediction. In both countries, more intelligent children are more likely to grow up to be liberals than less intelligent children. For example, among the American sample, those who identify themselves as “very liberal” in early adulthood have a mean childhood IQ of 106.4, whereas those who identify themselves as “very conservative” in early adulthood have a mean childhood IQ of 94.8.


Even though past studies show that women are more liberal than men, and blacks are more liberal than whites, the effect of childhood intelligence on adult political ideology is twice as large as the effect of either sex or race. So it appears that, as the Hypothesis predicts, more intelligent individuals are more likely to espouse the value of liberalism than less intelligent individuals, possibly because liberalism is evolutionarily novel and conservatism is evolutionarily familiar.

[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by classicman

I'm still pondering on how watching a dog play in the snow is political

Who said it was?

and comparable to this at all.

Jinx originally said Stewart's arrogance was displayed by making fun of people doing stupid things, which is the premise of AFV. It only came later that the arrogance is actually in liberal people making fun of conservatives doing stupid things, which added politics rather than just style into the equation, and explains why Limbaugh doesn't get saddled with arrogance as well as outrage.

[classicman]

Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

Who said it was? ~irrelevant~

You entered it into the discussion.

Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

Do you also view "America's Funniest Home Videos" as arrogant?

That show has NOTHING to do with politics nor those that were being discussed (Stewart & Limbaugh)
Enjoy your game of semantics.

[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by classicman

You entered it into the discussion.

I never said it was political. I said that it was comparable, in the context that Jinx had set up as her objection to Stewart. Which is why the "who said it was?" was addressed explicitly to the "political", and I addressed the "comparable" separately.

And then you deleted that explanation as irrelevant, repeated the false implication that I had said AFV was political, and complained about semantics.