P word. Get some!

By the way, I have never actually heard a reporter say the “disastrous Iraq war.” I think that is mostly the voices in your own head.

Excellent point. In fact, the criticism of liberals, which would be portrayed as balance or fairness here, is often from the further left (they aren’t leftist enough0

And excuse me, but Congress is totally Dmeocratic. The purse sytrings of the country. Why isn’t the Daily Show all over Democrats like Murtha and Pelosi and Barney frank. Why?.

What do you think the quotes are for?

I understand the liberal bias very well…

Liberal funny men — their numbers are legion — make fun of conservatives’ beliefs, their lifestyle, their appearance, all is fair game.

But when the occasional — excuse me, I mean extremely rare — joke about a liberal is told, it is never about their ideology. It is never about the disparity between their actions and their words.

No, indeed! It’s about their looks, or some superficial quality.

Conservatives who make fun of liberals are never appreciated by liberals as funny, because being a liberal is serious business.

They’re making the world a better place to live. Nothing funny about that.

They’re ending war and poverty, and making sure everyone gets free health care and higher wages. Nothing funny about that.

Like the Blues Brothers, they’re on a mission from God!

As the saying goes, apparently reality has a liberal bias.

To a degree, this is the essence of conservatism. When conservatism gravitates to its natural, stodgy small-c “conservative” state, they’re not funny and vaguely mockable. When conservatives try to be funny and hip, then they become a hilarious farce. Not so much “funny ha-ha” but more “falling-down-the-stairs funny.”

If they just tried to stay stodgy, then yeah, “making fun of the conservative square” would get dull after a while. But as Zython points out, conservatives seem to insist on producing new hilarious material that makes laughing and ridiculing conservatives funny in new and different ways day after day.

That and your politicians lie bald-faced to the camera contradicting exactly what you said the day before, giving the Daily Show great clips. So I’d stop that if I were you.

Or it would be, were it not for you guys constantly giving us fresh material.

Dugger, per usual, is spot on here. The Iraq War is objectively totally awesome, and no amount of [non-Fox] MSM bull-jive will ever change that. If only those MSMs (like the NYTimes and WaPo), who have always hated this awesome war, would just start reporting the good things happening over there (clap louder or leave the country!!)…

Because a) the news (note: not the same as “comedy programmes”) are terrified of displaying anything resembling Liberal Bias because of all the crybabies on the right, and b) the Republicans are the ones in charge, stupid.

“we” being the entire population of the duggerverse which, as the last six years have shown, bears only a nodding acquaintance with what most of us humans call “reality”

It has nothing to do with “conservatives not being funny” (though, in general, I think that is more true than not), it has to do with finding the truth where it lies. In a system entirely run by one party, it is kinda hard to pick on the people who control nothing. Which is fundamentally the same reason why conservatives aren’t funny, and why the Daily SHow trumps so much of MSM journalism (which is only “liberally biased” in the fevered imaginations of the Freeperati).

I think it was H.L. Mencken who said the purpose of journalism is to “comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.” Most right wing comics and journalists alike seem to turn this completely around, focusing on how best to tell those on the top that they’re great and they deserve what they have, and the schlubs at the bottom deserve to be where they are, the lazy slackers.

Further, as Paul Krugman has observed, the ridiculous obsession with “balance” has led far too many journos and pundits, when talking to 2 experts about the shape of the earth, one saying it’s round and the other flat, to title the story “Shape of the Earth: Opinions Differ”. Sorry, no, one opinion is objectively right and the other wrong, and it isn’t “bias” to say so.

The Daily Show is an admittedly liberal show, but as I’ve pointed out before, when Dems deserve they get it as good as Cons do (ask the Clintons, Al Gore, John Kerry or Howard Dean among others if the Daily Show lampooned them or not), and the show is better for it. Nobody wants to watch a hack show that exists only to prop up one side (see The Half Hour News Hour) because that violates the first law of comedy: be funny.

We all “know” that “conservatives aren’t funny” which means that all comics can ridicule conservatives with impunity. As dugger points out, that makes for a dull show, after a while.

For instance, the report speaks of the disastrous Iraq war – as if that is a given. If you argue all wars are disastrous -fine-, but how is Iraq more disastrous than Vietnam, WWII etc.

My ‘solution’: half left/half right. Each calls it like they see it.