Posted on 06/16/2019 6:06:01 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
Clickbait.
That is the only possible explanation for Politico putting this headline on one of their articles on Saturday: "How Trump Turned Liberal Comedians Conservative." When the reader sees that there is almost no way they can resist finding out how liberal comedians became conservative due to Trump which was the premise of the title on the story by Joanna Weiss.
Naturally, this thesis comes from a professor, Dannagal Young at the University of Delaware, who claims that liberals, like Jon Stewart in his Comedy Central heyday, are "playful, subversive, at once cynical and weirdly optimistic." Liberals under Trump, by contrast, are alarmed at a threat, which is conservative. "Social science research has shown that liberals and conservatives are (on average) wired differently, with social and cultural conservatives personally more attuned to danger, worried about intruders, primed to protect an establishment under threat." So now liberal comedy is humorless....like conservatives?
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
And when Smith answers "Liberal," the electric pain needle keeps rising until he finally answers "conservative."
Seems to be a warning shot to any liberal comedians doubting the cause.
Weiss...deliberately disingenuous... nah. That fruit is just hanging too low.
Imagine if somehow Colbert or Samantha Bee got hold of the reckoning list. Wonder how they would react seeing their names near the top.
So now liberal comedy is humorless....like conservatives?
There is no moral equivalency between leftard humor and conservatives. The emotional foundation of leftard humor is hatred and anger. The emotional foundation of conservatism is fear.
The durability of Conservatism has depended, to a great extent,
on it being a disposition rather than a philosophy.
What marks Conservatives out, across the generations,
and whatever the environment they operate in,
is an attitude of mind rather than an adherence to dogma.
And that disposition
- skeptical, cautious, pragmatic, sensitive to the local and the particular
- has been politically successful because it has been in tune with human nature.
Michael Gove
.” Liberals under Trump, by contrast, are alarmed at a threat, which is conservative. “Social science research has shown that liberals and conservatives are (on average) wired differently, with social and cultural conservatives personally more attuned to danger, worried about intruders, primed to protect an establishment under threat.”
.
Absolute, perfect, categorical Bullcr@p.
Leftist comedians are trying to conserve the examples of all-consuming state power shown us by 20th Century dictatorships, at any rate.
It meant conservative comedically, not politically.
Perhaps comedians are threatened by the liberal PC agenda. PC politics has killed comedy, and their craft and trade is threatened.
I watched the anniversary edition of “Laugh In” the other day
Putrid with political anger, definitely not funny
Sad really
Two lions are busily eating a clown when one turned to the other and said, “Does this taste funny to you?”
Check out nick depalo he’s got their number
Some have. Likely not whom the writer cites.
Most have because of the censorship and mob hits on them for telling a joke.
Social science research - Oxymoron!
Well, I can only speak for myself, but it describes me pretty well.
...comes from a professor, Dannagal Young at the University of Delaware, who claims that liberals, like Jon Stewart in his Comedy Central heyday, are "playful, subversive, at once cynical and weirdly optimistic."
Nope. He was always just as big a humorless a-hole as Maher.
Like duh...
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