You confuse disdain with ignoring

SDAI-Tech1 — 9/10/2005 12:15:23 AM (archived)

I don't ignore them. The ability to tap and guide folks into the lowest common denominator is a skill.

Daily kos blog does that all the time. It guides hate and attempts to harness it. Fortunately, hate isn't intelligent enough to be harnessed coherently and so Kos and others find they are mostly wasting their time.

Comedians are the pacifiers. They are used to channel emotion and guide it to a "safe" outlet. In laughter they can induce release of pent-up emotions, and at the same time diminish the observers' thinking processes into one-liners and jokes.

The late shows are the opiate of the people.

They serve a purpose. Just like religion, they offer pacification and over-simplification of a complex world.

When one looks at the backgrounds of the comedians one realizes they aren't qualified to discuss almost anything intelligently - so it shouldn't come as any surprise when they don't.

Voice of the people? Nah, comedians are just another time-waster vying for folks attention so as to command advertising revenues. By using the f-word Stewart and his ilk line their wallets doing the only thing they are skilled enough to do.

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Synchronized rhetoric: "the blame game" - Robert - 9/9/2005 3:47:30 AM
- Chertoff didn't think it "possible" - Lindy - 9/13/2005 4:09:40 AM
- re: Synchronized rhetoric: "the blame game" - gbaikie - 9/9/2005 9:32:08 PM
  - re: Synchronized rhetoric: "the blame game" - Robert - 9/10/2005 12:25:39 AM
    - re: Synchronized rhetoric: "the blame game" - gbaikie - 9/10/2005 2:02:05 AM
      - "the buck stops here" - Robert - 9/11/2005 8:11:55 PM
        
        re: "the buck stops here" - Scott Evil - 9/13/2005 3:05:14 PM
        
        re: "the buck stops here" - gbaikie - 9/13/2005 9:35:01 PM
        
        re: "the buck stops here" - gbaikie - 9/12/2005 1:41:27 AM
        
        re: "the buck stops here" - Robert - 9/12/2005 3:36:13 PM
        
        Safety - Tom Brosz - 9/13/2005 1:47:11 AM
        
        re: "the buck stops here" - gbaikie - 9/12/2005 10:15:07 PM
- "the blame game"? C'mon that's your, Bowser's & Don's theme song! (n/t) - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/9/2005 7:45:43 AM
  - Blame blame bo blame, banana fanna foe flame, fee fi mo maim (n/t) - Fox - 9/14/2005 2:05:41 PM
    - Hate trait, bu bu but bait too late, oh well, hate satiate. (n/t) - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/15/2005 5:25:03 AM
      - Pass the Buck, buck, bo buck...oops. Never mind. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 9/15/2005 6:22:33 AM
        
        I don't think the left award points for coherency. We're down by -2 ;-) (n/t) - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/15/2005 7:57:22 AM
        
        It helps to know the original song -- Tom did. (Score: one all) (n/t) - Fox - 9/15/2005 3:41:22 PM
        
        You mean it's a geezer thing? Dang! I hate it when I miss a temporal joke! (n/t) - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/15/2005 8:43:35 PM
        
        Yeah, it's a geezer thing (1965) - Fox - 9/15/2005 11:59:07 PM
        
        Oh Chr--t! It's from Daily KOS! - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/15/2005 10:16:08 PM
        
        Noooooo..... - Mary Anne - 9/16/2005 11:50:48 AM
        
        Oh, yeah, Kos. Most likely "Patient Zero" for Bush Derangement Syndrome. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 9/15/2005 11:23:02 PM
- BTW, I just figured something out... - Tom Brosz - 9/9/2005 4:44:33 AM
  - re: BTW, I just figured something out... - Robert - 9/9/2005 3:48:43 PM
- re: Synchronized rhetoric: "the blame game" - Tom Brosz - 9/9/2005 4:22:24 AM
  - calling attention to a f***-up is not "getting political"... - alcaray - 9/9/2005 5:06:14 PM
  - re: Synchronized rhetoric: "the blame game" - Robert - 9/9/2005 3:44:43 PM
    - LOL! - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/9/2005 11:17:28 PM
      - re: LOL! - Robert - 9/9/2005 11:48:45 PM
        
        You confuse disdain with ignoring - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/10/2005 12:15:23 AM
        
        No, I understand that you disdain the voice of the people - Robert - 9/10/2005 1:07:37 AM
        
        One other tiny point: - Mary Anne - 9/10/2005 4:31:54 AM
        
        Where to begin? - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/10/2005 2:15:59 AM
        
        I guess that you're then willing to stipulate that the far left is the reading public? - Mary Anne - 9/10/2005 4:53:51 AM
        
        The left has more readers, statistically. - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/10/2005 9:11:21 AM
        
        How fascinating! - Mary Anne - 9/10/2005 10:57:17 AM
        
        I know! - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/11/2005 12:31:24 AM
        
        This makes no sense. - Mary Anne - 9/11/2005 12:56:12 AM
        
        Publishing - Tom Brosz - 9/10/2005 5:00:59 PM
        
        So true! - Mary Anne - 9/10/2005 5:17:03 PM
        
        Or, to put it simply, remember that "chagrin" contains a grin (n/t) - Robert - 9/10/2005 1:18:38 AM
    - re: Synchronized rhetoric: "the blame game" - Tom Brosz - 9/9/2005 5:11:33 PM
      - One down... - Robert - 9/9/2005 6:41:19 PM
        
        re: One down... - Tom Brosz - 9/9/2005 7:05:45 PM

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