Posted on 09/16/2017 3:11:00 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Once upon a time Red State types were just like their Blue State brethren.
They settled in for the night by watching Jay, Conan, Dave, or Jimmy. A few monologue jokes later, and they were off to dreamland with a grin on their faces.
That was then, and by "then" we mean roughly five years ago. Today, some of the late-night faces have changed. Jay became Jimmy (Fallon). Dave gave way to Stephen (Colbert). And new talent like Trevor Noah, Jim Jefferies, and Chelsea Handler entered the arena.
The entire tenor of late night changed, too. What was once a comic free-for-all where stars gathered to hawk their product became yet another cog in the Left-Wing Propaganda Machine.
Sure, some product hawking still goes on. A few monologue jokes make you smile. But seemingly every night, on nearly every show, there's an angry comment, a rant or simply a vulgar turn of phrase aimed directly at the GOP.
Remember the oral sex joke Colbert told about President Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin? Or, more recently, how Jimmy Kimmel cracked that Sen. Ted Cruz pleasures himself to the thought of poor people lacking health care.
Comedy Central's Jefferies once called First Lady Melania Trump both "wooden" and a "dirty girl."
Late night went from Johnny Carson mocking himself for a lousy gag to comedians trafficking in the most offensive ways to insult politicians they hate (GOP members and their "co-conspirators").
And the hate flows freely on most late-night shows, with "The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon" being a notable exception. "Conan" over at TBS often sticks to the late-night script, too.
Matters will only get worse when progressive comic Sarah Silverman enters the fray.
Which begs the question: are there any right-of-center souls sticking around to watch it? If so ... why?
None of this means conservatives should wall themselves off from criticism. Nor should we adopt the pose struck by some Trump Train passengers, whose skins are as thin as our commander in chief's. It's just that watching shows that rigorously insult one worldview while giving the other a pass isn't entertaining for those in the crosshairs. So why watch it when the modern content revolution is in full swing? Endure the umpteenth time Colbert demands Trump resign, or watch one of Netflix's killer shows like "Ozark"?
Not a tough call.
What's most amazing is that no one in Hollywood is stepping up to address the sizable imbalance. Years ago, Roger Ailes looked at the TV news landscape and realized an alternative voice was in order. His Fox News didn't just rock cable television. The channel owned it.
Hahah!! I just posted it. Just a charming ballet—and if you watch the whole ballet, quite a challenge for the Prima.
Thank you both. That was really cute, also the “Waltz of the Hours.”
If Conservatives were true to their convictions, especially those who claim Christ as their Savior, they wouldn’t watch much of what is on TV. They wouldn’t go to most movies, or listen to most secular music either. Thing promoting evil will not be in in His Kingdom. If someone is planning on being in His Kingdom eternally they might as well get use to being without the world’s entertainment, which is often in essence just hell’s propaganda soaked in entertainment, as to get us to swallow it.
Every lasting pleasure is at the right hand of God. We won’t need their sorry attempts at entertainment to be happier than we can be imagine.
Beautifully said, thank you.
I put that badly. I SHOULD have said I don't know why we PAY to have local channels on our DIRECTV because we don't ever watch them.
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