The Reign of Right-Wing Primetime

Yahoo ^ | Wednesday, November 10, 2010, 11:59 AM | James Hibberd, Hollywood Reporter via Reuters

[Mandingo Conservative]

The Reign of Right-Wing Primetime

Moreover, if you're a liberal viewer in a major city (which typically correlates with higher education) and you have such titles as "Mad Men" and "Dexter" to watch each week, are you going to also be interested in seeing a paint-by-numbers crime procedural on broadcast or a laugh-track-boosted sitcom? On the scripted side, at least, the explosion of complex dramas on cable may have ceded some of the broadcast ground to what one might label Republican tastes.

[VADoc1980]

Of the "Republican" ones I've seen:

Glenn Beck - Like it

Modern Family - Like it

American Idol - Like the auditions in the beginning, hate the actual singers later in the season

Survivor - Hate it

Dancing with the Stars - Hate it

Desperate Housewives - Love it, wife got me hooked.

The Bachelor - Hate it

How I Met Your Mother - Like it

Two and a Half Men - Like it

As you can see from this list, my three hates are all reality shows. I don't hate all reality shows, just the really popular network ones. I love shows like Deadliest Catch, Man vs. Food and Man vs. Wild.

Now, of the "Democrat" ones I've seen:

Countdown with Keith Olbermann - Hate it

Brothers & Sisters - Hate it

Law & Order SVU - Love it

I'm kinda surprised that Law & Order SVU isn't more popular among conservatives. I know they take shots at conservatives like they did in tonight's episode (talking about militia groups stockpiling guns because they fear confiscation), but I think that compared to a lot of the crap on tv, it's pretty good.

I'm also surprised that Family Guy isn't on the list. I suspected South Park wouldn't be because it's on cable, but I guess Family Guy's ratings are worse than I thought. I really like it.

[VADoc1980]

Weeds is actually a pretty entertaining show. And unlike Cheech and Chong, you don’t have to be high to enjoy the humor.

[Oztrich Boy]

Basically they just list according to the popularity with either group, but also give the show to side with the highest score.

Which sometimes rates in absudity eg The Good Wife is a "Democrat show" (9th most popular) even though it is the Sixth most popular show with Republicans!

[Question Liberal Authority]

It seems to be a poorly conducted study, specifically designed to provide fodder for an article that would show how superior liberal elites are than knuckle-dragging conservatives.

What really seems odd is the shows which are NOT on the list, at all. Beck is by far #1 among conservatives, but no other political show is even ranked? Olbermann is by far #1 with liberals, but no other political show is even ranked? Absolutely zero sports related shows? No Mythbusters? Nothing from PBS? No South Park or The Daily Show or The Colbert Report?

[wardaddy]

nothing wrong with good moonshine

nice copper vat and tubing

and most importantly...silver solder

RIP

[wardaddy]

I confess to have enjoyed Hank Moody’s antics ...with my wife...she wears the same clothes as Hank’s sorta wife

but it does make me wince...some of the comments

but about the daughter:

she is the show’s conscience...her parent’s the foil

unfortunately while traditional family life has about evaporated in white trash, lower black and other segments of our populace...it has also gone under in the arty educated broken home class too

I’m not sure how you’d describe it...post modern jaded absurdity...and the women are not too bad at least to look at...that hippie chick fling of Moody’s was a doll

today...most creative folks in media are from broken homes, or homosexual or women with a bitchy axe to grind

and it shows....very rare is a show that avoids this

even Boardwalk Empire which I’ve been watching with Scorsese, Wahlberg, Patten and Winter from Sopranos at the creative end has all this garbage in it about social commentary and this is a period piece....ad nauseum about race and women’s issues and Warren Harding corruption etc...

Creative types aside from being from marginal backgrounds are often uninformed and left leaning...it’s always been this way...it’s just the studios and network bosses with an eye on the bottom line used to keep their snarky asses in check

[Lazlo in PA]

I watch these shows too but because of the train wreck factor. There is absolutely no redeeming value to either of them and the plots are manufactured to get the writers pats on the back from moral relativists.

Weeds: Silas has a sexual crush on Nancy, his mom.

Californication: Hank sleeps with an underage girl Mia who is his ex-wifes fiances daughter. Hanks buddy/agent has an S/M affair with his secretary.

Not much intellectualism going on here. Mostly soft core porn.

[wardaddy]

true..it’s not redeeming but Moody did not know who the girl was when she threw herself at him....which women seem to do with him nonstop

it would take quite a man to resist the opportunities thrown his way

the series is chock full of bad morality

myself...i never lived outside of marriage with a woman with children around...unless...a few times in an affair when I was 24 and she had a 14 month old and I was in and gone after he went to bed and before he got up...in another room down the hall...the dad had left mom for another woman and she was pretty poor in the self image dept...we still talk on occasion now 30 years later...she teaches school in Lugano.....married a Frenchman..man my daddy instincts were lame then...odd considering how many kids later now...I will have been raising kids to majority 40 years when my youngest reaches legal adulthood.

today...no one blinks at lovers in the home with kid around...i really detest that

it’s just dirty for mommy to be upstairs knocking boots with a man other than dad...especially for little boys and the same for another woman shacking in the house

we have crumbled indeed..even as I confess to enjoying a few of the “train wrecks”

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

I confess. I liked ‘Damages’ and just started watching, and like, ‘Mad Men’. They didn’t list the late lamented ‘24’.

[wardaddy]

i was ok with Mad Men once or twice but when they did the picnic trash scene I knew then I was not in Kansas anymore

I was alive then and while yes we did not have road crews picking up trash all the time, picnic areas did have trash cans and folks did not toss trash pell mell on a whim everywhere

that and the de rigeur homosexual angle and I knew I was once again with urban Gen X and Y writings....always preaching to us how bad we used to be ...it gets tiresome

I do think married men like the main protagonist did cheat more then...men under 45 today are either not married or more dominated by the woman than my group(b1950s) where cheating is admittedly more common and in my dad's age group...b1930s...even more so...most men in my dad's social group...rich white southern men....cheated..when I grew up

i don't....too many kids and my wife doesn't deserve it...if she did I might..course I'm getting a mite long in the tooth

this thing is sort of a paradox...very immoral times but I think younger men may cheat less for some odd reasons actually...but I think women cheat at a higher rate than did my mom's generation

[nomad]

Well I pick and choose what I watch and don`t believe all I hear and see,either way (for the critical thinking)there`s always the channel changer and the on/off switch.So,as a sovereign citizen,(for now) I suggest you watch what you wish and I do the same,yes?