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Al Franken is not enteraining because his leftist beliefs make his audience the butt of his so called jokes. People who are the butt of jokes rarely find them funny.

I think that is an important point which needs amplification. If indeed Republicans are the party of the people, the people will not find "jokes" funny if Republicans are the butts. But a joke about government is a different thing. Or, as Rush's shtick is, a joke about the arrogance of journalism's pretensions to virtue.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

O’Sullivan’s First Law" states that "All organizations that are not actually right-wing will over time become left-wing."

And although O'Sullivan himself gives some examples as a lame "proof," his law is demonstrably true. My proof follows:

1. Journalism is negative (if it bleeds, it leads)
2. Journalism is superficial (because of deadline pressure)
3. Journalism is arrogant (in claiming the virtue of objectivity, and also in its belief that "you never get into an argument with someone who buys ink by the truckload").
4. Journalism is cowardly (in that each journalist fears all the others - taking the "you never get into an argument with someone who buys ink by the truckload" warning to heart when journalism in general needs to be opposed by a courageous voice.
5. It follows that journalism is cynical and bullying.

6. It follows that any organization or individual such as a SCOTUS justice - which is courageous and principled will be labeled "right wing" - or, perhaps, "out of the mainstream." Anyone who lacks courage and principle will be pulled to conformity with the left wing by the flattery and derision of journalism - and be praised as "moderate' and "mainstream" (and, before they ran the word into the ground, "liberal").