Which Side Are You On? Team Fear or Team Reason?

Brilliant stuff.

Well, Micheal, maybe we should turn the question on it’s head and ask you what team you think you’ve been on?
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Less filling.
Tastes great.
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It’s been going on for centuries.

Any wonder these guys are leading our only sane national political discourse and are the most trusted names in the news business?

Really. Stewart and Colbert are two of the few people out there that are calling the media and politicians out for the games they play. This may cross the line and go past satire but it’s badly needed.

It would be even more encouraging if they form national movements, the Fear Party and the Reason Party, and are nominated to run for President. Satire aside, I am serious.

I’m thinking Team Fear will have the better costumes.

“Satire aside, I am serious.”
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I think their rallies are partially a statement on the (hopefully) temporary death of satire at the hands of the right wing and their media enablers. The reason they’re the most trusted is because they seem to be the only people who care about explaining the important truth. Comedians.

Whose audience has the biggest collection of kooks, dupes, freaks, fools and idiots: Colburt’s, Stewart’s or Bill Maher’s?

Flox’s.

Any wonder these guys are leading our liberal agenda, and only insane people attempt to use them as a format for national political discourse? They are the most understood and trusted names in the news business by psychotic Schizophrenics who have taken over the Democrat Party.

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There fixed it for ya!!

“They are the most understood and trusted names in the news business by psychotic Schizophrenics who have taken over the Democrat Party.”
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One of the few blessings of idiocy is never knowing just how stupid you are.

A new study by the Pew Research Study shows that viewers of the Daily Show and the Colbert Report have the highest knowledge of national and international affairs, while Fox News viewers rank nearly dead last…
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The results about Fox News echo findings of previous surveys. In 2003, University of Maryland researchers studied the public’s belief in three false claims — that Iraq possessed WMD, that Iraq was involved in 9/11, and that there was international support for the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
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The researchers stated, “The extent of Americans’ misperceptions vary significantly depending on their source of news. Those who receive most of their news from Fox News are more likely than average to have misperceptions.” Fox News viewers were “three times more likely than the next nearest network to hold all three misperceptions.”

http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=319

thanks, newfreedumb, for proving their point.

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ron paul.

Palin’s.

Problem is, it’s a lot easier to get crazies to show up to an event. Though I can at least give Stewart credit for trying.

Whichever group is most apoplectic at Comedy Central’s political influence.
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Remember, Charlie Chaplin was a Nazi… I mean, c’mon, the mustache before even Hitler had it.

Just remember Mr Scherer: They’re laughing at you, not with you.

“psychotic Schizophrenics”
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“Schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterized by a disintegration of the process of thinking and of emotional responsiveness. It most commonly manifests as auditory hallucinations, paranoid or bizarre delusions, or disorganized speech and thinking, and it is accompanied by significant social or occupational dysfunction.”
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Now that’s irony!

God.

colbert is our twain. stewart is only our mencken.

yeah, stupid dupes don’t even know that saddam was behind 9/11 and our vast international alliance found the WMDs to prove it!

Did Rusty — who’s been proven to post under multiple personalities here — actually denounce someone else as “schizophrenic”? Really?!

Hard to say, textee. What shows do you watch?

Stewart and Colbert never cease to impress. Yet, the irony of their impact & success being almost solely the result of the poor levels of civility and respect for knowledge in our culture does not go unnoticed.
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I’m glad they’re here, but I wish they didn’t have to be.

I’m still waiting for the 24 hour comedy news station…

More on topic, I kind of want to go to this (obv for team reasonable). Part of me feels its important. Admittedly, it is a small portion that may have taken up residence somewhere around my small toe. The rest of me just thinks it would be entertaining.

But, it’s a good 7 hour drive. And hotels being what they are…

Absolutely agreed!
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Yes, I do take on our wingnuts, but, that is in hope that they will post less often or go back to the mental wards they belong in.
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As for reasonable and well informed conservatives – the few left out there – I’d be happy to have coffee with them and exchange ideas.

The lead up to their announcements of the gathering was brilliant marketing. The event is brilliant marketing.
Nevertheless, they are serious about the point they are making.
I am looking forward to their promotion of the event.
Stewart and Colbert are not only great saterists, they are compassionate participants in the community.
Colbert has quietly raised money for classrooms, students, wounded vets, etc. Stewart visits wounded vets on a regular basis. No horn tooting like the Beckster.
Now if the traditional media could just figure out what distain they are held in and take the satire seriously.

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apr: Dunno if you read reddit.com, but the redditors have been trying to get Colbert to hold a “Restoring Truthiness” rally for the better part of a month. (Their goal had been to stage the event on 10/10/10, which is 42 in binary and, of course, the answer to life, the universe and everything.)
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It looks like they’ve succeeded and gotten a 2-fer! (albeit on the 30th of October).
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Re: Traditional Media. My guess is that the MSM will ignore the event even if +250K people show up. They’re still PO’d that Colbert rubbed their noses in the sh!t at the WHCD in 2006, and will do all they can to downplay the event, IMHO.

Patrick,

How’d you make out during that storm last night? I know Queens was hit pretty hard. Though I was stuck on the LIE for hours, the storm itself didn’t really impact us on LI too much.

I agree. They will still be in denial.
I’ll check out reddit.

” Though I was stuck on the LIE for hours, the storm itself didn’t really impact us on LI too much.”
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I work from home and ordered in.
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In my neighborhood there aren’t too many trees to fall down or anything, so, I just heard the sound of rain pounding against my AC.
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I was thinking that it was the night before last, but, with all of the power lines, also, underground, nothing short of a natural disaster impact me right now.

Exiled, you drive into the city?
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When I was a cabbie, that was what I did for a living, but, I have the LIRR right here and, if I miss it (mid day or on weekends) the subway is less than half a mile.
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Unless I was a millionaire or if it came with the job I would never park in the city except for once in a blue moon and with a reason good enough to justify the cost of parking.

I am absolutely convinced that Stewart, at least, despises his role in society not because he doesn’t want to do it but because he believes he shouldn’t have to. How many times has he made that sort of appeal on his show?