Hola Libtards and Rethugs! Sunday night I was watching the
Emmys when the category for best writing for a variety show came up. As each of
the shows like “The Daily Show” and “The Colbert Report” and Jimmy Kimmel reeled
off their looooooooooooooong list of writers I noticed something interesting.
Basically the intros went like this “White Guy” “White Guy” White Guy” “White
Guy” “White Woman” “White Guy” “White Guy” and finally “White Guy.”
Sheeeeeeeeeeeit …. IWS Radio has more diversity in ONE
correspondent than Colbert has on his whole freaking staff. (There was a woman
up there somewhere with them but she isn’t in this pic. The second time they
went up, there was a second woman, but I suspect they just grabbed her out the
audience so they would look more diverse. They would have grabbed a black
and/or Latino too IF THEY COULD HAVE FOUND ONE IN THAT AUDIENCE.)
I was struck by the lack of diversity on these writing
staffs especially given the liberal bent of these shows and how much they love
to lecture others about diversity. So, I Tweeted “Funny how the ‘lecture
everyone else about diversity’ shows can’t find any black, Latino and only one
woman writer.” Or something close to that.
Well, turns out that some far left-wing extremist partisan
was trolling twitter and decided to respond to me: “I wasn’t aware that these
businesses that produce those shows were liberal to any degree. You’re
evidence?”
Oooooooooo … She nailed me! Wow! I was knocked on my heels
for minute there. We all know that no “business” is ever anything but evil and
conservative. I guess she was trying to imply that the corporations that own
the networks that these shows are on are conservative so the shows are also? Or
maybe she was ignoring the leftward lean of the shows and talking about the
parent companies only? Or maybe she considers anything to the right of Chris
Hays to be “conservative?” We’ll never know because she never elaborated.
So, I hit back with “The Daily Show and Colbert Report are
raging right-wing shows? I had no idea.”
ZIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING!
It was at this point that she realized she was completely
wrong so she did what everyone in that situation does. She got personal and ignored
my original point by telling me “You do appear to be out of ideas!” HAAAAAAA!! Wooo this chick is almost more
than I can handle!
Okay, so it was apparent to me that this was going to go
nowhere and I had found yet another person who isn’t interesting in any real
discussion if it challenges her “My side is pure and perfect and always right”
world view. I decided to try, just once to see if she would address the lack of
diversity issue I had tweeted about. After another exchange where she once
again resorted to name calling I asked her “Are you bothered by the lack of black, Latino and women writers on these HUGE
staffs or are you so partisan that you can never criticize your … uh … OUR (I
am for the most part Team Blue) side?”
Her sad little response was “Oh, you make it too easy.” This
is what people say when they agree with you but can’t admit it. They pretend to
be sooooo intellectually superior that they can’t even be bothered to answer.
See there’s Colbert’s token female writer! I told you she
was there somewhere.
The obvious truth is that YES she is bothered by the lack of
diversity on these writing staffs. She can’t admit it though because if she
does she would be acknowledging that her side isn’t as pure and perfect as she
pretends it is. She’s not alone either. Democrats suddenly are totally in favor
of all kinds of stuff they used to be opposed to. From support of the surveillance
state to ignoring lack of diversity to support for launching an unnecessary,
unprovoked war of choice with Syria, extreme partisans like this Twitter Troll
have decided to copy the republicans by refusing to ever admit that maybe, just
possibly, someone on their side might be even the slightest bit wrong about
anything EVER!
This is why we can’t have nice things America.
4 comments:
Matt-Man: The world needs more mavericks!
Jay
Mike: He's the one who writes the funny stuff.
Jay
People have too much time on their hands and not enough good ideas of what to do with it.
A few years back, I read a book by Al Franken. he talked about how he used an intern to watch episodes of "Hannity and Colmes" and count the number of words Hannity said per episode versus how many words Colmes said.
It didn't seem to be a very good use of, you know.... time?
People who are controlled by a chip on their shoulder aren't very interesting to talk to.
Katy: There are a lot of people with entirely too much time on their hands. Also, a lot of people who are completely obsessed with politics who need some hobbies!
Jay
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