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pepperbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-14-06 12:45 AM
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The double standards piss me off.
Edited on Wed Jun-14-06 12:52 AM by pepperbear
I just caught the 1AM Daily Show w/ Li’l Kenny M. and I must say, Jon gave one of the greatest smack downs in the shows history, yet he was polite and allowed the man to speak.

Bill Maher has RW’ers on all the time and even shushes the audience to give them real time. This leads me to wonder how come a “study" came out recently that claimed watching the Daily Show or the Corbert Report might make young people more cynical towards politics (like that's a bad thing):


http://www.ecu.edu/cs-admin/news/inthenews/archives/2005/12/052206johnsteward.cfm


While Swill O’Reilly and Handjobitty and the like have left wing guests on their show simply so they can talk over them and shout them down.

Go figure.

:shrug: :shrug: :shrug:


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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-14-06 12:47 AM
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1. Go figure why anyone with a brain would tune into the
last two you mentioned, but they do.
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WCGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-14-06 12:48 AM
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2. Cause nobody that is "young" watches O'Reilly and H&C....
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RagingInMiami Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-14-06 12:49 AM
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3. Because Maher and Stewart are honest
How can you not be cynical about politics when you are confronted with the truth?

Save the flag-waving, God bless America, freedom is on the march talk for the college republicans who buy into all that bullshit.

Let's educate the rest of them.
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-14-06 12:51 AM
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4. Fuckwads like the sound of their own voices. Narcissistic.
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987654321 Donating Member (341 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-14-06 12:52 AM
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5. I don't get it either.
Edited on Wed Jun-14-06 12:53 AM by 987654321
I also don't get why leaders on the left even go on those stupid shows just to get belittled and disrespected. Sometimes I wonder if they like getting abused or something. Why the hell any elected Democratic office holder would ever go on any show on Fox fake news is beyond me.

Not only do those right wing shows foster cynicism, but they fuel hate as well.

And by way, Handjobitty is quite the name!

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