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Mr. Rasmussen posted this video as a comment on my MySpace profile, and I repost it here, because I'm going to comment on it:
Watch it. You might get through the whole thing. I consider it a triumph of human will that I did.
The show is called The 1/2 Hour News Hour, a lame joke that MTV beat them to about twenty years ago begins with a Mary Sue fantasy of Rush and Coulter as President and Vice President, a sight which is sure to draw pulsating, orgasmic exaltations by its conservative viewers. It was unpleasant to watch Rush mug and Coulter stagger through poorly-written dialog and unflatteringly predictable jokes ("Nancy Pelosi? How did she get this number?!"). Though I've never done it, I imagine that this is what it's like watching Sean Hannity masturbate.
The bland hosts then fart out a bagful of standard anti-Democrat jokes, and then cut to commercial with a fake ACLU advertisement. This fake ad mockingly celebrates the ACLU for pushing all the way to the Supreme Court the right for hate groups to march in public. Nobody who claims to support the Constitution would find that to be a negative thing - it's a victory for free speech, which comes in as, yes, the very First Amendment (you know, the one that comes right before the guns one).
My issue with this show has nothing to do with politics. Conservative humor can actually be very funny, when it's done by funny people. Though I do have to say that I find strident Conservatism and its frequently-lame attempts at humor to be a mui macho back-slapping sort of cruelty, the kind I used to see at junior high dodge ball games when the jock-sucking fucknards would high five each other after nailing one of the geeks.
No, my problem with the 1/2 Hour News Hour is that it just isn't funny.
Part of me thinks that partisan leather-sniffers on the right side of the aisle so desperately need constant reassurance that they'll laugh at anything that makes fun of a Democrat, even if it isn't funny. A smaller part of me hopes that even those folks will see that bad comedy is just bad, no matter what the political affiliation of its writers happens to be.
