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Originally Posted by mudwhistle
I've seen it for years.
It picks fun at politics, mostly Bush and Republicans.
Because the writers are mostly Liberals they have a field-day with them.
Comedy Central is Liberally biased because their ownership is biased.
Comedy Central is owned by Viacom which owns Dreamworks and Paramount which owns CBS, Bush's most ardent critic, source of Rathergate.
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Not really a revelation to say the Daily Show is mostly liberal is it?
Theyd even admit that themselves. Still for liberals they give it to the Democrats quite a bit too.
I had hopes for the 'half hour news hour', but was somewhat disappointed that it was sooooooooooo embarrassingly shit. It seemed like an attempt by the right to say 'hey we can be funny too guys!'
Here's a quote from an interesting article;
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The point of the Daily Show, especially when it launched 11 years ago under Craig Kilborn, was never to provide a liberal take on the news. It was to make fun of the news. Early Daily Show segments parodied the movie review, human interest story, in-house ranter (Back in Black) and in-studio debate (Even Stevphen) segments of crappy local and national news broadcasts. The show got more political in the Bush era, but so did, uh everything - we've had two more land wars and around 20 percent more voter turnout then we did in the latter Clinton years.
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Moreover, the Daily Show manages to be a liberal show that is not a partisan Democrat show. I doubt the right could pull off the same trick.