{"id":1023,"date":"2006-11-20T15:12:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-20T15:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/bits\/?p=1023"},"modified":"2006-11-20T15:12:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-20T15:12:00","slug":"a-daily-show-for-conservatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/?p=1023","title":{"rendered":"A "Daily Show" for Conservatives?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Now Fox News Channel, a primary source of material for Jon Stewart
\nand Stephen Colbert, is teaming with the exec producer of “24” to try
\nits hand at a news satire show for conservatives to love<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Joel Surnow, co-creator of “24,” is shooting two half-hour pilots of
\na skein he described as ” ‘The Daily Show’ for conservatives,” due to
\nair in primetime on Saturdays in January.<\/p>\n

If successful, the show could take its place on the regular schedule,
\nadding satire to FNC’s formula of news and opinion.<\/p>\n

“The way I look at it, almost every comedy show or satire show I see
\nuses the same talking points against George W. Bush and Dick Cheney,”
\nSurnow said. “The other side hasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t been skewered in a fair and
\nbalanced way.” <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It’ll never work. Can you ever remember any type of successful and memorable political satire that was conservative? Wikipedia <\/a>or Google <\/a>it all you please, but you won’t find it. I’m pretty damn sure about that. (And if you do find it, ready that link to prove me wrong in the future. At the moment my comments are still rubbish and I haven’t made the jump to phpBB yet. )<\/p>\n

The fact is THE DAILY SHOW<\/a> and THE COLBERT REPORT<\/a> don’t limit themselves to satirizing only the conservatives. They hit all the bases. The conservatives just have more cannon fodder to choose from. that’s what happens when you put yourself out there as “holier than thou,” people are gonna find your faults. They’re gonna make fun at your expense and the jokes will stick because you dared place yourself above everyone else.<\/p>\n

If you really put your mind to this thought, “conservative” shows are their own satire, without even trying. Colbert is the only one that comes to mind currently. His show is basically everything that a conservative show generates. The pompousness. The diatribe and rhetoric. The shouting matches and truthiness. Consider what happened to Dennis Miller<\/a> when he bared his true ideas(which was a hard shift right compared to what he was selling on his HBO show). He dropped completely off the radar, at least for me he did.<\/p>\n

The main difference between Colbert and the “real” conservative shows: Colbert does his shtick in complete irony, just as Colbert intended. The others believe(at least while they’re in front of a camera) exactly what they’re saying.<\/p>\n

So, yeah. Try all you want Fox News. It won’t work. It’ll be nothing but cannon fodder for the rest of us.<\/p>\n

Delicious and wonderful cannon fodder for those of us that “get” what THE DAILY SHOW is all about.<\/p>\n

mencken<\/a>ite groonk<\/p>\n

(The article<\/a>, in its enitrety, is on Ellis’ website<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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