To some extent this thread reveals the stock right wing approach to comedy - high-school level derision of people for your own amusement and to get your fellow c-students to snigger. As practiced by professional media comedians Limbaugh and O'Reilly. We knew these buttheads in high school - they don't grow up or get serious and someone or something eventually kicks their asses - usually life itself. Look at the Fox guys. Addiction and sexual harassment issues - like permanent 12-year-olds. As they age they get bitter when the humor wears off and they can't escape the realization that the joke's on them for wasting their own life in struggling to make others feel as bad they do. But they earn their self-loathing.
Then you got the real comedians, who manage to swing wide, Stewart, Colbert, Chris Rock, Lewis Black and the SNL folks who take on everyone, all the Clintons and the variety of Bushes we've had to deal with.
The difference is, the good comedians point out the absurdity of our situation, but the Limbaughs and O'Reilly's and now our friend Grant struggle to make the real discourse more cartoon-land than anything else. They can only thrive in cartoon discourse.
DS
