Matt Yglesias reviews The Daily Show’s take on the crisis Wednesday night.
Comedy Central vs. CNBC nicely captures the cultural battle inside the American elite between “creative class” types and the business manager types. Both sides think the other side is composed of idiots, but their side is mistaken.
March 6th, 2009 at 4:54 pm
but no mention of how slanted to the left MSNBC (the obama channel) is,which is owned also by GE.
For the life of me, I don’t see how anyone thinks this guy (Jon Stewart)is funny, or at a minimum worth watching
March 6th, 2009 at 8:10 pm
Spoken by someone who probably watches Fox and loves Rush Limbaugh.
March 6th, 2009 at 10:44 pm
Mike,
I don’t listen to a lot of radio or watch a lot of tv, I don’t have the time. But if you’re asking me if I’d choose Fox over MSNBC then, yes you’re right; they may be tilted to the right, but they don’t fawn over a candidate (I’m remembering the chills up my leg comment).
I am more of a Libertarian, which means I don’t always agree with Rush on social issues, but when he talks about the economy or taxes I usually agree with him. So I wouldn’t say I “love” him, but I’d pick him over olberman or franken any day.
March 7th, 2009 at 5:08 pm
MSNBC and Fox are equally appalling, I’m a CNBC fan and a Comedy Central fan however.
Can someone tell me when optimism became a bad thing? Should we all just sit around and commiserate. Imagine if they did that after Pearl Harbor? Etc, etc…
March 8th, 2009 at 3:04 am
Jim H. – You are old and/or have no sense of humor.
Mike P. – You’re on target.
Hayden Fisher – You need to read Candide.
All – Is Yglesias part of the pundit elite?
March 9th, 2009 at 6:26 pm
I don’t know. Looks like CNBC got owned.