So, A Liberal Walks into a Bar...

Browsing the blogs lately I came upon already-in-progress plans to create a conservative 'Daily Show' type program on the Fox network (duh):

Fox News Channel might air two episodes of a “Daily Show”-like program with a decidedly nonliberal bent on Saturday nights in late January, with the possibility that it could become a weekly show for the channel.

The half-hour show is executive produced by “24’s” Joel Surnow and Manny Cota and creator Ned Rice, who previously wrote for “Politically Incorrect” and “Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson” through This Just In Prods. It would take aim at what Surnow calls “the sacred cows of the left” that don’t get made as much fun of by other comedy shows. “It’s a satirical news format that would play more to the Fox News audience than the Michael Moore channel,” Surnow said. “It would tip more right as ‘The Daily Show’ tips left.”

I think is is going to fail. Why? Forgive me for making a sweeping generalization: conservatives aren't funny. Certainly there are exceptions. Jackie Mason, for one. Certain episodes of South Park. On the whole, however, when one wants to laugh the scale tilts heavily to the left. Even coming up with five right-wing comedians is a challenge. I can't get far without having to add Dennis Miller, and he's about as funny as Mikhail Glinka giving math lessons to Friedrich Nietzsche aboard the Andrea Doria.

Perhaps I should say: conservative attempts at humor are not usually successful, though there are plenty of conservatives who have excellent senses of humor.

Consider: recent forays into field of humor have not been terribly successful. The most prominent right-wing comic strip, Mallard Fillmore a.k.a. Gipper the Talking Points Duck, drawn by a man so thin-skinned and contemptuous of his readers' intelligence that he thought they would be fooled by a parody of his strip in America: the Book. Naturally, he struck back by implying that Jon Stewart has a thing for underage drunk boys. For me, it was easy to tell the real Mallard from the fake because Stewart's version was funny.

Of course, I could be wrong. Maybe this new show will be witty and insightful and make everyone laugh at their own foibles. But, the odds are against them.

Morning in America

A good night for the Dems.

In Ohio, Virginia, and Montana, it looks like incumbent Republican senators were beaten, though in VA and MT it was very close.

In Massachusetts Deval Patrick was swept into office in a landslide.

In Tennessee, a flurry of ads suggesting that Harold Ford Jr. was out to steal all the white women proved sufficient to sink his campaign.

In Pennsylvania, man-on-dog dead-baby-kissing creepmeister Rick Santorum lost big time. Good riddance.

All told, the Democrats gained at least 28 House seats and 6 senate seats (with Independents). Small majorities, but majorities nonetheless.

Also signficant: not a single Democratic incumbent lost. Not n the House, Senate, or the Governorships. Not one.

Awesome.

It's also fun to cruise the conservative blogs and find new perjorative terms for Democrats. So far I've found Dumbocrats, DemocRats, Democraps, Dimmocrats, Dim-o-cracks, etc. Let me know if you find others.

P.S. Daniel Ortega won in Nicarauga. Let the false comparisons begin!

P.P.S. Britney Spears is getting divorced.

P.P.P.S. Donald Rumsfeld resigned. Fancy that.