Conservative Satire Is An Oxymoronic Failure
Faux News cancels the 1/2 Hour News Hour
How could people have rejected such side splitting material like this?
How could people have rejected such side splitting material like this?
posted by nolocontendere at 1:17 AM
4 Comments:
The secret to really good satire is when it is based upon reality and there is an obvious underlying message of truth that goes with it.
Since these Faux fools don't base their stuff on anything but B.S. and reality is unknown to them, it should be obvious why they fail.
Call it imitation satire, which is nothing more than heartless method-acting by nonsense script.
Nick Z.
That was really shown on TV? Just when I think Faux can't sink any lower.
Well put, Nick.
Apparently so, Lesley, I'm not certain though because I don't watch television.
To me there was a lot packed into this one clip that said volumes about the mindset of the 1/2 Hour presentation in particular and the "conservative" viewpoint in general.
Can you imagine a self important disclaimer before a Daily Show program? Then the inference that the woman whores herself, the insulting dismissal of the other woman, the obvious canned laughter, and the a priori understanding that Limbacile (unveiled with a little Superman type music) is the arbiter of correct political presentation.
Jeebus what a sick authoritarian psychomess.
A few of these are ok, most not so great. Nick, some of these parodies are actors pretending to be liberals and acting out liberal mindsets. In others, there are actors pretending to be what liberals think conservatives already are, or what they think conservatives would act like if they were in power. Some times these can be quite funny, and sometimes not. A joke told by the wrong person or the wrong timing, doesn't mean the joke wasn't based on reality, nor does it mean the joke can't be funny. I think you got it right by saying there needs to be an obvious underlying message, and many times during the show the message wasn't obvious. The ones that had an obvious message, that I understood, I thought were quite funny. Like the gun control, the 9/11 conspiricy theory, and the sexual harassment videos. If you're not understanding the reality that they are based on, get out there, expose yourself to some more of the media on both sides.
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