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On Sexism. Censorship, Free Speech and Politics: Jon Stewart's Porcine Humor
I'm all for free speech, but I'm also for family values. Expressing free speech that's controversial on subscription adult cable, at a private club, on subscription radio, basically anywhere that isn't readily available to the children of its target, for example, is fine with me. Last I heard, Comedy Central was available to anyone who has a platform of cable channels.
Apparently Andrew Sullivan thinks this is a riot - the beginning of a "rich late-night comedy political season". I wish I thought so, too. I used to enjoy Stewart and Colbert, and did not think of Stewart as a partisan pig prior to now. Let's watch along with Sullivan, Stewart and "Samantha Bee" as they coin a new phrase in relation to the Palin as McCain's Vice Presidential nominee: Proud Vagina-American. I'd love to see what the Obama campaign's reaction would have been to Comedy Central referring to him as a Proud Penile-American.
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I have always considered
I have always considered Andrew Sullivan respectable enough, and I was horrified to see the other day that he had used his Atlantic column to repeat the slander about the birth of Trig Bristol. A publication the caliber of the Atlantic should be ashamed.
Pretty simple really
Stewart et al argue that woman who support Hillary do so for reasons other than that she's a woman so they will not support Palin simply because she's a woman.
What's so hard about that? We're offended by the language?!?