I don't know about you, but I've found that, for whatever reason, conservatives have a harder time being genuinely funny than liberals do. (I agree with people like Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert very very little, but I can acknowledge that they are very good at what they do, which is poke fun.) And I think that's unfortunate.
One conservative, however, who is way too funny to "only" have a blog is Iowahawk. I give you Exhibit A.
One conservative, however, who is way too funny to "only" have a blog is Iowahawk. I give you Exhibit A.
posted by Matt | 11:05 AM
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I actually couldn't disagree with you more. The true liberal is worried and panicked over everything. They're hypersensitive about all possible things. Conservatism is quite the opposite.
I think I may have misspoken. I do think that liberals in general have thinner skins than conservatives do. (And I do not think, as many others do, that our current president has "a good sense of humor". He has the thinnest skin of all.) I guess what I meant was that, if we narrow our population down to those whose job it is to be funny, and in particular be funny about politics, I think the liberals--purely on the comedy scale--are more successful.
Yeah--I'll certainly agree that liberals seem more successful in the mass media when it comes to entertainment.
But I've got to wonder. Look who runs the major media outlets? I'm not discounting the talent of comedians w/ liberal leanings...but I wonder if a right-leaning comedian would get a shot? I do not believe they would--for precisely the reasons that you cite. Liberalism couldn't handle it.
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