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Originally Posted by dippin
Maybe I should have qualified my statement as "make fun in a funny way." You have to be unbelievably partisan to think that Obama lends itself to the same sort of mockery that Bush "Fool me once" did. Maybe you think that "Obama the magic negro" or pictures of watermelons and fried chicken in the white house are funny as hell, but whatever shortcomings Obama might have, he simply does not put his foot in his mouth as often as his predecessor.
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You must be unbelievably partisan to think that there is nothing about Obama to mock other than his racial background. I'd think a good satirist could come up with plenty to say about Obama's associations with terrorists and black nationalists, for example.
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Originally Posted by dippin
And you simply ignored every other point made. While he is clearly a liberal, Stewart has made fun of several top democrats, most notably John Kerry. Hell, he first gained notoriety making fun of Clinton (which is another one who is easy to make fun of).
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I never said he didn't make fun of liberals. I said he wasn't nearly as critical of them as he is of conservatives.
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Originally Posted by dippin
There was very little that was "political grilling" in Cramer's interview, if you actually watched. Very little was related, if at all, to policy or politics. It was mostly about poor journalism and unethical practices of reporters. And a lot of it was funny, and it was all in a context in which Cramer had been made fun of in previous programs, defended himself in other media, and then was asked in to debate that.
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The poor journalistic practices were directly related to politics/economics, in this case. I'm assuming that a TV personality who lied or screwed up commentary about video games or football wouldn't have been taken to task by Stewart.
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Originally Posted by dippin
Finally, I find it funny when republicans start with this sort of "affirmative action for conservatives in the entertainment media" rants. Apparently the free market isn't efficient there, and producers should keep giving Ben Stein, Dennis Miller and the makers of "An American Carol" more money they will never see again.
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I'm not a Republican, thank you.