Kansas Crimson

HouseDivided wrote: ↑Sun Apr 26, 2020 1:13 pm

ousdahl wrote: ↑Sun Apr 26, 2020 12:59 pm “The Left has their own way. They have created a culture where it is no longer safe to joke about, much less laugh about, almost anything.“

Seriously?

You realize the left has a de facto monopoly on humor, right?

The right has...Dennis Miller? And I’m not even sure he’s funny.

I have seen multiple interviews with comedians across the spectrum who complain about how hard it is to come up with jokes that won’t get them blacklisted. If it isn’t lampooning straight, White, Christian, conservative males, it’s not okay. I see the difference from ten years ago when I showed humorous video clips in my classes to today. Ten years ago, kids were laughing and suggesting other ones that I could use; today, they sit in near silence, looking at each other out of the corners of their eyes for some indication that laughing won’t make them guilty of thought crime. It is truly sad.

Cornered market on funny? My rendition of late-night “comedy”:

Trevor Noah: Donald Trump is fat, orange, and stupid.
Jimmy Fallon: Donald Trump is stupid, fat, and orange.
Jimmy Kimmel: Donald Trump is orange, stupid, and fat.
Bill Maher: Donald Trump is a stupid, orange, fat f*ck.

Gold, Jerry; gold, I tell ya!

jeepinjayhawk wrote: ↑Sun Apr 26, 2020 1:13 pm Yes, conservatives have become more and more mean, and even more so after Dear Leader was elected.

It is all working out exactly the way that they intended.

zsn wrote: ↑Sun Apr 26, 2020 11:50 am

ousdahl wrote: ↑Sun Apr 26, 2020 11:21 am is there any way to measure which side is angrier? Or rather, which side uses anger as some sort of mechanism?

when my dad asks what my beef is with Fox News, I reply that I like my news to be reported without shouting about it.

compare the tone and temperament on Fox News to, say, NPR.

It irks me to no end, and I am highly offended by the notion that there is an impression that NPR "belongs to a side". Fox clearly does. MSNBC's commentary section clearly has a trend. NPR on the other hand is about as objective as one could get. Just because more people with a liberal point of view listen to NPR does not automatically make the news outlet biased. This is a giant trap that the CONServatives have laid out and one that liberals are only too eager to fall into.

This is in regard to content. However, no one can match Fox News for the tone and temperament - when was the last time any other news outlet was cheerleading an armed mob?

IllinoisJayhawk wrote: ↑Sun Apr 26, 2020 2:31 pm

jeepinjayhawk wrote: ↑Sun Apr 26, 2020 1:13 pm Yes, conservatives have become more and more mean, and even more so after Dear Leader was elected.

It is all working out exactly the way that they intended.

Sure seems like that statement applies to many on the left too....

zsn wrote: ↑Sun Apr 26, 2020 4:08 pm

IllinoisJayhawk wrote: ↑Sun Apr 26, 2020 2:31 pm

jeepinjayhawk wrote: ↑Sun Apr 26, 2020 1:13 pm Yes, conservatives have become more and more mean, and even more so after Dear Leader was elected.

It is all working out exactly the way that they intended.

Sure seems like that statement applies to many on the left too....

Until you can show me evidence, even on a 20% basis, of armed liberal masses simultaneously assembling in multiple cities (and threatening public health) you can take your "both sides" argument and shove it.

BOTH SIDES DON'T DO IT. PERIOD. END OF ARGUMENT.

Feral wrote: ↑Sun Apr 26, 2020 3:58 pm

zsn wrote: ↑Sun Apr 26, 2020 11:50 am

ousdahl wrote: ↑Sun Apr 26, 2020 11:21 am is there any way to measure which side is angrier? Or rather, which side uses anger as some sort of mechanism?

when my dad asks what my beef is with Fox News, I reply that I like my news to be reported without shouting about it.

compare the tone and temperament on Fox News to, say, NPR.

It irks me to no end, and I am highly offended by the notion that there is an impression that NPR "belongs to a side". Fox clearly does. MSNBC's commentary section clearly has a trend. NPR on the other hand is about as objective as one could get. Just because more people with a liberal point of view listen to NPR does not automatically make the news outlet biased. This is a giant trap that the CONServatives have laid out and one that liberals are only too eager to fall into.

This is in regard to content. However, no one can match Fox News for the tone and temperament - when was the last time any other news outlet was cheerleading an armed mob?

Everyone knows that the news has a liberal bias.

IllinoisJayhawk wrote: ↑Sun Apr 26, 2020 5:45 pm

Feral wrote: ↑Sun Apr 26, 2020 3:58 pm

zsn wrote: ↑Sun Apr 26, 2020 11:50 am

It irks me to no end, and I am highly offended by the notion that there is an impression that NPR "belongs to a side". Fox clearly does. MSNBC's commentary section clearly has a trend. NPR on the other hand is about as objective as one could get. Just because more people with a liberal point of view listen to NPR does not automatically make the news outlet biased. This is a giant trap that the CONServatives have laid out and one that liberals are only too eager to fall into.

This is in regard to content. However, no one can match Fox News for the tone and temperament - when was the last time any other news outlet was cheerleading an armed mob?

Everyone knows that the news has a liberal bias.

CNN is almost as bad as FOX these last handful of years.

Grandma wrote: ↑Mon Apr 27, 2020 8:12 am Mr. Obvious here. CNN and FOX are not simply reporting the news and are catering to their audience/s.
They both suck in terms of "reporting" "news". They both are excellent in what they set out to do.