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Why do democrats get satirised less on TV?

There's no question that there are many liberals and Democrats that are pretty ridiculous.

BUT

The party establishment doesn't hold itself up as "the moral majority". The party isn't OPENLY AND PROUDLY anti-intellectual, anti-education, anti-science, and anti-journalism.

When a party openly derides the institutions that we rely on for fact and understanding in our society, it will find that it's members sometimes come out looking a little sillier than members of a party who defer to those institutions in their areas of expertise. Throw in the hypocracy which accompanies politicians claiming to have the moral high ground and then showing the same moral failings as everyone else, and the comedy writes itself.

But beyond that, isn't biting comedy kind of a game of the young? And the young are more likely to be liberal. Seems to me that plays a larger role in what is essentially a business decusion by the networks regarding which content to produce.




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I like Dara. But he's absolutely wrong that people don't wait a long time to deal with health issues.

I've had patients show up weeks after they went blind in an eye. You feel terrible bacuse it's something that could have been treated much better if we'd gotten to it earlier.

So, yes it makes for a good comedy routine. But it's important to get even that basic info out there, and if even one person takes it to heart that otherwise wouldn't have? Then it was well worth doing.
 
There's no question that there are many liberals and Democrats that are pretty ridiculous.

BUT

The party establishment doesn't hold itself up as "the moral majority". The party isn't OPENLY AND PROUDLY anti-intellectual, anti-education, anti-science, and anti-journalism.

Well spoken.

However, now that Allen West has blown the lid off the Communist conspiracy in Congress, I'm sure we'll be seeing the Democrats get theirs....

:shifty:
 
Both parties suck, but more democrats seek jobs in the entertainment industry, therefore there are more democrat writers, therefore republicans get satirized more often.

Yeah, yeah, yeah "there is no liberal media conspiracy, dammit!"

Whatever. That's not what I'm saying. It's just that it's a simple fact there are more of them in the media & entertainment industry.
 
Conversations like this always sound like 12 year olds on the playground to me.

"MY party/candidate is PERFECT, and YOURS is full of FAIL!!"

"No, MYYY party/candidate is BETTER than perfect, and YOURS is full of POOP!!"

Come on, people. They're all equally crap, just in different ways.
 
I mean not news show. Tv series and other comedy.

Why is that? Conservatives dont like satire? Dems cant laugh on themselves? There arent enough libertarian comedians?

I am sad about the Goode family failing.

It's primarily due to the fact that it's Republican primary time, & the media is flooded with their candidates & supporters

There's times when Democrats earn plenty of ridicule, probably not quite as much as this new crop of Tea Party fanatics, who are more publicly brazen & unapologetic about their moronic political agenda as the Democrats are about theirs, & even previous generations of Republicans were

All politicians are whores, & all of them have agendas that no one should be taking seriously, imho, but right now the Tea Party has a corner on the market of stupid political gaffs. Can't possibly last forever
 
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