What a Straw Man argument. Comedy Central never said it was “hip,” or “edgy.” It’s been pretty middle-of-the-road. Even HBO is more edgy.
You want hip or edgy on Basic Cable, you have to go to VH1 or MTV, some of their “reality” shows.
As far as Comedy Central saying “Cut the Prophet Mohamed in a Bear Suit”: those of us who actually watch it and are familiar with it expected nothing less than capitulation. They ARE a business concern foremost, after all.
Methinks the National Review doesn’t watch much Comedy Central, except for maybe “Larry the Cable Guy” specials.
not many columnists better at using wit to drive home a point..........
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Hence, Bill Clinton energetically on the stump, summoning all his elder statesman’s dignity (please, no giggling) in the cause of comparing tea partiers to Timothy McVeigh. Oh, c’mon, they’ve got everything in common. They both want to reduce the size of government, the late Mr. McVeigh through the use of fertilizer bombs, the tea partiers through control of federal spending, but these are mere nuanced differences of means, not ends.
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For a long time, tea partiers were racists. Everybody knows that when you say “I’m becoming very concerned about unsustainable levels of federal spending,” that’s old Jim Crow code for “Let’s get up a lynching party and teach that uppity Negro a lesson.”
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“Please. Behead me last. And don’t use the rusty scimitar where you have to saw away for 20 minutes to find the spinal column . . . ”
We all know ‘those horrible, faulted for all evils ever perpetrated since time began’ Christians don’t behead; I guess they wouldn’t be a concern to business either.
Nonsense.
You are missing Steyn’s point. His point is that the polls show that Stewart / Comedy Central have captured the hip and edgy market for “those who list TV as their news source”. VH1 and MTV do not have news programs so they are irrelevant in this discussion. Date My Mom and Parental Control may be “hip”, but they aren’t a source for news.
The same executives who pay Stewart (and others) a lot o money to be hip and edgy with current events, could have been real hip with this current event. But they got scared.