Comments on: Daily Show on the Gender Card

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 03:39:00 +0000

Only goes to show that the worse the general state of things, the better the satire…

By: Dave Raithel

Dave Raithel — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 17:17:00 +0000

In a Banana Republic, I expect that the repressed are kept in their place through force and brutality; the most well off keep what they have because they own the monopoly on coercion and the effective threat to harm those who challenge them. The episode illustrates the extent to which the abused in America are the agents of their own repression. No one who valued intellectual integrity and had not internalized their own repression would tolerate such blatant contradictions and double standards. People who willingly go to Fox News and endure Rove and Morris and O’Rielly – three stooges who ought not be accepted in polite society but instead treated like pariahs – are their own victims.

But yeah, it is pretty hilarious, almost surreal – the “real news” channel is the parody, and the parody news is the reality.

By: Matt Dubuque

Matt Dubuque — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 02:31:00 +0000

But Ralph, what else would you expect from a Banana Republic?

Matt Dubuque

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 01:43:00 +0000

How is it that the Daily Show is seemingly held to a higher standard than the "Main Street Media" (papers and magazine and other such fancy and supposedley well informed sources of acceptable information).

The Daily Show is comedy and it says a lot that a standard is applied here that is not applied to the newspaper, whose job ought to be critical analysis, but seemingly, and over the last eight years has only been able to be another spokesperson for a government without any critical reflection.

A sad state of affairs.

Ralph

By: Dean

Dean — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 01:22:00 +0000

Cool. Hypocricy Galore!

Shall we replace the Republicant Elephant with a Hippo (just for this election only)?

BTW, news just broke out that Fannie Mae and F-Mac are taken over by government.

By: Richmond Rambler

Richmond Rambler — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 23:48:00 +0000

Thank god for the Daily Show. Most satisfying to watch someone hoisted by his own petard.

To quote Hannah and Her Sisters:

If Jesus came back, and saw what's going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing up.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:36:00 +0000

In all fairness, it was the AIP itself that bragged about Sarah Palin being a former member. Later they went through their old member rolls and had an “oops” moment.

By: Peripheral Visionary

Peripheral Visionary — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:04:00 +0000

Sarah Palin was not a member of the Independence Party, her husband was. More lies and insinuations, courtesy of the internet.

And the rancor over her belonging to a controversial church is rich stuff; just like complaints over the thinness of her resume. It’s like the ending scene in “Fight Club”, where Edward Norton hits himself every time he hits Brad Pitt.

By: mock turtle

mock turtle — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:02:00 +0000

does reporting this constitute gender bias???

it appears that sarah palin was a member of the alaska independence party, which advocated secession from the united states of america.

sarah palin addressed the alaska independence party earlier this year, in her capacity as governor, wishing them well !!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z…h? v=ZwvPNXYrIyI

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:29:00 +0000

Roger Simon’s article “Why the Media should apologize” is fantastic and can be viewed here: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/13143.html

“Blame the Media” is the oldest game in the book. As you can see, there is much that you should blame the media for, but not quite in the way the McCain campaign would have us believe…