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ToxicSlurpee posted:I'm pretty sure that's happened more than once but if memory serves THE time that everybody talks about happened on Crossfire. The premise of that show was they had a conservative host and a liberal host and they would invite two people on the show of opposing opinions to verbally duke it out. This generally went exactly as well as you'd expect but on a special edition they invited John Stewart on alone apparently with the intent on destroying him thanks to how much he makes fun of and criticizes the GOP. Along the lines of that: A few years ago didn't some pundits bring up the his old post-9/11 episode where he got a bit emotional during a monologue and started just trying to insult and humiliate him for his response to the events?
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kik2dagroin posted:Within the first 10 minutes of Limbaugh's show today he Again? You sure he wasn't just playing a rerun? 
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'd Obama by saying that the first thing Hitler did was create universal healthcare. Because you and I know that is totally what Obamacare is 
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Feb 20, 2014 18:51
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All this talk of conservative comics and no mention of the Crown Prince of Bullshit Jeff Dunham? Half of his incredibly stale routine is dealing with the Muslim Terrorist Puppet with frequent interludes about his lament for God being taken out of classrooms and poo poo like this. I remember loving his stuff when I was like 10 (A JALAPENO ON A STICK!?) - but I'm sure his safe-and-sound no swearing / dirty jokes routine keeps angry old conservatives in the audience with their unaware grandchildren. Anyway, I'm late the derail on this one but gently caress Jeff Dunham and his lovely, hateful comedy routines.
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robotsinmyhead posted:All this talk of conservative comics and no mention of the Crown Prince of Bullshit Jeff Dunham? Half of his incredibly stale routine is dealing with the Muslim Terrorist Puppet with frequent interludes about his lament for God being taken out of classrooms and poo poo like this. Well, according to Gabriel Iglesias, Arabs eat that up as they take it as satire.
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Feb 20, 2014 19:20
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deoju posted:I haven't seen every MST3K but I can't remember hearing a single joke that made me think the guy had a strong conservative streak. If anything the shows general irreverence seemed pretty anti-establishment left-ish to me. So I was surprised to hear he leaned pretty far to the right.
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Feb 20, 2014 20:12
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Guilty Spork posted:RiffTrax will occasionally take a crack at the likes of Al Gore (who deserves it in a lot of ways). The only explicitly conservative gag they did that actually pissed me off was in the Starship Troopers riff while the camera was pointed at some dead bugs they said something along the lines of, "All ready to become another Obama voter!" Most of the time their humor is pretty much apolitical though, and when they do go after politicians it's more friendly ribbing rather than, you know, repeating lies told on talk radio. Mike did that lame War on Christmas song on MST3k: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MioTYWrsVHQ quote:Tom: But if you prefer to eat Indian food on Christmas Day "All cultures are valid"  
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robotsinmyhead posted:All this talk of conservative comics and no mention of the Crown Prince of Bullshit Jeff Dunham? Because the original derail was about funny comedians who happened to be conservative.
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Feb 20, 2014 20:34
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The sentiment is bad but it was a sentiment that was way less understood pre 9/11. It's like Lovecraft's anti-semitism, it's not laudable in any way but it's not like he was doing it after we found the concentration camps. I say this as someone who is well aware that I'm probably going to make my grandkids cringe by calling things gay and using fag as a pejorative. I'm Seattle liberal as gently caress but sometimes you can't help but reflect your times' bad aspects.
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Feb 20, 2014 20:42
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And now, here's a recording of a man very slowly sliding his head up his own butthole. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sx1s91AhTNQ
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comes along bort posted:Because the original derail was about funny comedians who happened to be conservative. And the creator of the blue collar comedy tour very clearly said that he doesn't consider Jeff Dunham a comedian.
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Dan Bongino really is the most boring and stupid fill-in host that gets used by everyone. He has this weird manic gleeful tone and is constantly trolling for people to call in and disagree with him, but he's just got nothing.
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KittenofDoom posted:And, like a conservative, hit shitheadery has pushed him out of mainstream entertainment into a free podcast and the occasional appearance on The O'Reilly Factor. Carolla's downhill slide started when he got away from the improv that he had been honing for most of his career. When he went of to do The Man Show the entire concept and most of the scripted stuff was from ideas he had come up with while doing Love Line. And when he had squeezed everything he could out of previous decade of improv on Love Line, he was left with nothing but complaining about the taxes on his now stagnant/declining income. In the end, he mistook his quick wit and humor to make funny banter with troubled kids calling a radio show with some sort of true comedic genius, and now he is bitter that everything he touched afterwards didn't turn to gold. And, is it just me, or does it seem like those that complain about personal taxes the most are either just bad at business or otherwise peaked in terms of income? Carollo is basically done unless he can find a new call in show, or another gig doing prank phone calls, so the only way he can take home more money is by paying less taxes. I've met plenty of small business owners who are just bad business people or in a tapped out market who complain bitterly about taxes. But those that are good at running and growing a business seem to complain more about pain-in-the-rear end clients or suppliers then about the taxes they pay.
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Feb 20, 2014 21:22
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Having to pay a large amount of income taxes is a problem I wish I had.
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Radish posted:Having to pay a large amount of income taxes is a problem I wish I had. Yeah, I'd personally love it if I had to cut the IRS a check for a cool million.
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pd187 posted:Mike did that lame War on Christmas song on MST3k: This isn't a War on Christmas song, it's just a "ha ha, multicultural Christmas would be silly" song.
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Phone posted:Yeah, I'd personally love it if I had to cut the IRS a check for a cool million. Especially if my accountants had gotten that down to a 11% tax rate.
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Feb 20, 2014 21:32
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"Oh hey, it's been a while since I checked in on Prager University. There's a video about feminism, that's sure to be entertaining" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR9FHKKbMZo&t=252s sluuuuuuuutttts! (linking this back to the conservative comedian thing, Adam Carrola does quite a few videos for them)
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PeterWeller posted:This isn't a War on Christmas song, it's just a "ha ha, multicultural Christmas would be silly" song. 
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Given Mike Nelson's lack of history of saying or supporting terrible things, I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. Dude seems to be an older style conservative who I would not agree with but could live with.
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It's February and I don't really want to think about this much, in fact 2013 was pretty quiet for War On Christmas stuff in my personal experience, but drat if this isn't a thing that doesn't need to be a thing. When was it decided for us that happy holidays was offensive again? I seem to recall this being a Fox-funded venture of some kind. It first started popping up within my consciousness on Daily Show bits from 10 years ago. Has it been so long? I don't remember this being such an issue when I was a kid in the 90s, but then, I was a kid, so what did I know? (The answer is nothing.)
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Feb 20, 2014 21:58
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WoodrowSkillson posted:Given Mike Nelson's lack of history of saying or supporting terrible things, I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. Dude seems to be an older style conservative who I would not agree with but could live with. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/1145333/posts quote:Q33 (Forrest): Have you seen The Passion of the Christ? If so, what did you think?
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Freerepublic: Bastion of journalistic integrity.
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TURN IT OFF! posted:Freerepublic: Bastion of journalistic integrity. It's a link, you moron. The original page is gone but here it is on archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20041030083320/http://tom-servo.home.mindspring.com/special-events_interview_mike-nelson-2-main.html quote:Q39 (Forrest): What’s the most overrated movie all time (let me take a guess, Titanic or Gangs of New York, right)?
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I'm pretty sure the guys that voice the robots aren't conservatives, so I don't think the song was meant to be political.
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pd187 posted:It's a link, you moron. The original page is gone but here it is on archive.org: random fansites from the nineties: bastions of journalistic integrity. edit: accurate portrayal of Mikes political views, totes true guys https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnrwbTgVuOw
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Lycus posted:I'm pretty sure the guys that voice the robots aren't conservatives, so I don't think the song was meant to be political. I'm not sure about Kevin or Bill (or the earlier robot voice guys), but from his Twitter Frank Conniff (TV's Frank) is a total flaming liberal.
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Feb 20, 2014 22:36
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beatlegs posted:I hate to say it but I've found in my personal experience that the only difference between rear end in a top hat conservatives and "polite conservatives" is that the latter are just smarter about keeping their mouths shut.
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Mike Nelson might be the only person on Earth to watch Mitchell and say to himself "There is a god, and he loves me."
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Snoggle posted:Mike Nelson might be the only person on Earth to watch Mitchell and say to himself "There is a god, and he loves me." Mitchell was Joel's last show. 
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TURN IT OFF! posted:random fansites from the nineties: bastions of journalistic integrity. Is the Minneapolis Star-Tribune good enough for you? https://web.archive.org/web/20050603081950/http://www.startribune.com/stories/563/5423773.html quote:Demonizing the other side EDIT: I dunno if you think the Lincoln Heights Literary Society is better than an MST3k fansite, but there's also this: http://liheliso.com/Interviews/MikeNelson030704.html quote:LS: What place does religion have in our lives? Can you be moral without belief in God? Thomas13206 fucked around with this message at 23:51 on Feb 20, 2014 |
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Oh god, the "Howard Dean scream". A guy yelled the word "yeah" joyously one time to a celebrating crowd and it disqualified him for president because, like,
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True, but let's not make it about his policy ideas or leadership skills, let's make it about yelling "yeah" so we can roll our eyes at the mentally unbalanced liberal crazyman.
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Listening to Mark Levin on the way home and he and some law professor from California were having masturbatory fantasies about a ballot initiative to break California into 6 separate states. Given that its California and that the ballot initiative is being sponsored and funded by a venture capital billionaire, Tim Draper, I don't doubt that they will get the signatures they need to get it on the ballot. At that point, the law professor was saying that it would be a done deal if the initiative passed and that even if Congress doesn't approve it, the proposed legislation is written in such a way that California will still have to function as 6 separate states until the bill is passed or the time for passage lapses. The initiative is written in such a way that it would be win if they win and even a win if they loose situation. So how scared should we be that California will put at least 10 new Republican Senators into Congress?
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