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Looks like I'n unclear on the concept, too.
Posted on 05/05/2005 3:06:28 PM PDT by the anti-liberal
Ann Coulter Vs. Jon Stewart- a new 'The Daily Show' a liberal dash of anti-liberal
The Daily Show was interesting during the Iraq war and was a great means for much needed relief during that tense and stressful period, but once the war was over and Jon and his wacky staff turned their attention toward politics, well, will someone please whisper into Jon's ear “hey, psst, your liberal is showing..”? Many young people look to The Daily Show to learn about recent events and what they get is an earful of out-of-context liberally slanted (slanted?- steeped!) humor about the President, Sec. Of State, Bolton and whatever happens to be in the news- hey, they're a fake news show!
What's become increasingly clear to me, is that the liberal media, aka MSM, has way too many weapons of mass indoctrination and distraction at their disposal. Sure, we have Fox News- they strive to be 'balanced', which means they try to give as much equal time to liberals as possible, but given the liberal tendency toward hyperbole at the expense of factual debate, and how easily viewers are-unfortunately-moved by such senseless, emotive hyperbole, this is giving the libs more than they deserve. I'm not advocating that FNC should stop giving equal air-time, as liberal commentators and such tend to be their own worst enemy.
But we only have FNC and a handful of conservative radio shows. This is a gun-fight, and everyday we're showing up with a boy-scout knife. The liberal media and their ilk are destroying our country, our values have become hopelessly eroded and self-responsibility is nowhere to be seen. Are we leading the world by example? Is this the example we want to give to the world? There have been complaints of corruption in the US handling of billions of dollars in Iraq- are we teaching them our “values” (what values?)? Are we teaching them self-responsibility (responsibility? What's that?)? Are we leading by example? The liberal movement is eating away at our country like a cancer, do we want to spread this to the rest of the world? I'm sick of schools teaching kindergardeners about gay lifestyle as if it were normal, I'm sick of the permissiveness that has lead to a total lack of self-responsibility and self-control- why do you suppose there are so many rapes, robberies and violent crime? No boundaries have been set on social behavior- do what you want, whatever feels good.
I want to come to this fight for our nation's-- for our civilization's--, sanity- for our soul, for our future, with nothing less than a .50 cal. six barrel gattling gun manned by the most highly trained gunner at our disposal.
This is why I'm advocating the creation of a media outlet specifically for the purpose of defeating the liberal agenda, and I think a fake news show a la 'The Daily Show' would be a strong first step. Mercilessly make fun of the antics of these “flaming liberals”- show, in no uncertain terms, how ridiculous their actions truly are and how damaging to our social fabric their agenda is. They like to be 'in your face', well it's about time we got in theirs.
I think someone like Ann Coulter would make an ideal fake 'news anchor', not only is her wit sharp, but she's a woman. I truly can't think of anything more agitating to the liberal mind then to be the butt of a sharp, witty woman's jokes. The deeper the barbs, the better- and Ann does not pull her punches.
You may counter that there's not enough of an audience for a conservative comedy show. We have all of the 'red states'. While this may be so, I still might suggest a subtle strategy—do not bill the show as being 'anti-liberal', rather, sneak-in in disguise. If this strategy were taken we couldn't use Ann Coulter- doesn't mean we can't bring her in once a solid fan base has been established...
I would love to hear your thoughts on this, especially those of you who have familiarity with the television industry.
While I'm here on my soap-box—while we're at it, why don't we create our own Hollywood and let the crazy liberals keep theirs. Fight fire with fire.
Whoops.
Looks like I'n unclear on the concept, too.
So quick name five or six funny republicans. Comedy Central tried something similar with Tough Crowd and it mostly failed miserably.
Yeah.. well, that was Collin Quinn's fault, he was embarrassing. The format also had a lot to do with it, which is why I like the 'fake news' format. Are only the liberals capable of humor? I don't buy that. I mean, them liberals practically do it to themselves- how hard can it be???
I think it's at least worth a shot...
I simply want to get folks engaged in that direction- this is a public opinion war, do we want to win or do we? The Daily Show thing is just one idea, I'm sure others can come up with other ideas... then it's a matter of actually putting something together, something that will reach the mainstream in direct competition to the 'liberal media'. I wasn't necessarily speaking of Comedy Central, I'm not quite that optimistic!!
Tough Crowd failed because they had a panel format like Bill Maher used to have. As a result, the show always had a lot of libs on it and he'd get muddled. It was a disaster.
Dennis Miller has experience in "fake" news
have Dennis do an hour-long weekend update type show. That would get picked up quickly!
Jonah Goldberg, Laura Ingraham, Dennis Miller, John Derbyshire, Mike S. Adams, Matt Labash, Jonathan Last, Rob Long, Catherine Seipp, Doug Giles, Florence King, Meghan Cox Gurdon, Mark Steyn, and yes, of course, Ann Coulter.
That's just off the top of my head. I'm sure I missed many more names.
I think the liberal msm is going to be around for a while,and they still have a lot of influence,but just look what the internet has done to the msm monopoly on news.I think another conservative cable channel would be good.Some news and commentaryI think 60minutes type investigative reports from a conservative view point would be effective.Maybe documentaries on stuff like illegal immigration,crime,liberal bias in the msm.I think there's enough demand for something like this.I like Fox,but some more variety would be nice.
I think you may be on to something here. Your idea needs some tuning but it's a good one.
First, you make the assumption that the only ones that would watch Ann Coulter are conservatives. I think liberals would tune in in droves. They HATE her. They would tune in every day at 11:00 EDT for their daily "thirty minutes hate" to paraphrase Orwell. They are obsessed with hating her. The demand for televisions would probably go through the roof with all the bricks they would throw through their telescreens.
Also, the nets make a big mistake by assuming young people are by nature liberal. Young people are by nature adventurous, and idealistic. They may not consider the long term consequences of their actions the way us older types who've been burned a little more do, but they ACT. They like to live on the edge and they smell bull shi-ite a mile away. That's why a lot of the liberal indoctrination in the schools goes in one ear and out the other. Think about when you were in school. Remember how lame the teachers and administrators were? That wasn't your young imagination, they ARE idiots!
Fake news shows are a little passe. I would like to see her in a role something like what Dennis Miller did on CNBC. Only, for some reason, he was low key and subdued, and his show was a bore. You have to make sure Ann is slinging flaming arrows night after night -- something the morning talk shows HAVE to cover the next day.
I don't even know if she should have guests. Her problem on talk shows is they always put some loud mouth lying liberal out there who talks over her and spits out lies faster than she can refute them. That is why she deserves to have a forum where she can discuss her ideas without interruption from morons.
I think it's a great idea. Don't know if she'd like it though, or want to work as hard as you'd have to work to do a daily show. That's a lot of material to have to prepare. Lots of pressure.
Ann? What say you?
What if you had a show, hosted by somebody like Ann, who could deliver a really good rant, then introduce somebody like Mark Levin or Zell Miller who could do the B block, maybe host and guest together for the C block, and for the trailer, hell, I don't know, you have 23 minutes to fill. But a conservative rant show instead of the endless "equal time" crap would be a welcome relief from the dark night of cable news.
I agree Ann can deliver a seriously good rant! She has a standing guest spot every Wednesday on a radio show in LA hosted by Al Rantel. She's just perfect in the "guest" medium. But I once heard her guest host the show while Al was on vacation, and while I liked it (I think Ann is hilarious even when she's only performing at half her usually caliber) I could tell that she was not as comfortable in the part.
As far as I'm concerned the funniest conservative entertainment out there is Laura Ingraham's radio show. But Laura herself admits that it doesn't translate well to television. But I swear, just doing a live feed of her broadcasting her show would probably be hilarious (though perhaps unwittingly so!).
Whatever it is, it has to be something new. It can't be just "the conservative version" of the Bill Maher Show or the Daily Show. The Daily Show was somewhat unique and that's what made it initially interesting. First off, you'd have to distinguish it from other conservative host political shows (Hannity & Colmes, et al) by calling it primarily a political entertainment show.
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