I have some optimism here. Maher was particularly foul until finally there were protests against him. And much the same with Keith Olbermann. Combined with their typical greed and demands they place on their network, and obnoxiousness in private as well as public, it just becomes easier to “shuffle them to the back”.
Olbermann would be lucky to be reading the farm report in Podunk right now, for minimum wage and no improv permitted. People have to pay to see Maher, bundled as a “no choice” if they want the good HBO programming.
But since Comedy Central is a Viacom product, much of the pressure should be directed at them as well as their majority stock holder, National Amusements, and its owner, Sumner Redstone.
Redstone is a political pragmatist, for example, publicly supporting W. Bush, but then giving money to John Kerry.
Stewart and the left are always comfortable demonizing Christians while they avoid any utterance contemptuous of the ROP. If a person competent in image manipulation were to create stills of Stewart broadcasts, substituting ROP hate for the usual Christian hate, the resulting images would propagate across the web. Once the Stewart parodies were released into the wild, who’s to say what would be the resulting response from ROP adherents worldwide?
Serious Jewish leaders need to sit him down and explain to him that about the only place on Earth left where Jews are welcomed is North America. And that it is probably not a good idea to foul THIS nest.
When I was young, my Dad told me that most guys became real friendly after they got a taste of their own blood. He did tell me that there are some guys who like pain, and watch out for them. I think old Jon likes pain. Ignore him like that cat turd on the side of the road that he is.
Even the premise of the joke is unfunny. Vagina Manger? What does that even mean?
The audience applauded because a sign told them to do so. Most were probably applauding while saying, “WTF?”
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