Conservative stand-up comedian Evan Sayet says there is “no doubt” his fellow comics have taken it easy on President Barack Obama.
“They’ve even admitted it themselves,” he told The Daily Caller.
“Liberals don’t want to make fun of Obama because they feel that it will weaken him if they honestly point out his foibles and his shortcomings. The narrative is that Obama is sort of a god (in fact, Evan Thomas of Newsweek said exactly that.) Gods don’t have any flaws. Thus, if they point out a single flaw, they are entirely destroying the narrative.”
Sayet, who has written for shows like “Politically Correct with Bill Maher” and “Win Ben Stein’s Money,” argues that conservatives are not as sensitive about their leaders.
“Conservatives don’t think of their leaders as ‘messiahs’ (or mythical knights in the fictional kingdom of Camelot) and thus, poking fun at them is not sacrilegious,” he said. “To the modern liberal who looks to their leaders the way small children look to their parents, making fun of Obama is simply beyond them.”
In his new book, “The KinderGarden of Eden: How The Modern Liberal Thinks And Why He’s Convinced That Ignorance Is Bliss,” Sayet strays from the humorous to explore why what he calls “Modern Liberals” support the policies they do.
“Modern Liberalism is a utopian ideology that is predicated on the notion that, since mankind lost paradise when Adam and Eve ate from the apple of knowledge, then mankind can return to paradise if only we’d all just ‘regurgitate the apple’ and give up all knowledge of right and wrong,” Sayet told TheDC.
“The notion is that, if we can eliminate the quest for what I call ‘the better,’ then there’d be nothing for people to disagree about. If people didn’t disagree about things, then they wouldn’t fight and, if they didn’t fight, then of course they’d never go to war. Peace on Earth — in fact, paradise — can be achieved, they’re convinced, if only they could eliminate the quest for the better.”
“This is the environment that is found in kindergarten, where every child’s finger painting is declared ‘beautiful,’ and every child is declared special (but none more special than any other), and where every child gets a cookie, but no child gets two,” he said. “Modern liberalism is predicated on the notion that, if we could just retard the child’s moral and intellectual growth at a level prior to his having begun to learn about the better, then paradise will reign.”
and obviously unable to be rebutted by Obama's loyal flock herein
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“Conservatives don’t think of their leaders as ‘messiahs’ (or mythical knights in the fictional kingdom of Camelot) and thus, poking fun at them is not sacrilegious,” he said. “To the modern liberal who looks to their leaders the way small children look to their parents, making fun of Obama is simply beyond them.”
Yes, who can forget all of those conservative comedians trashing Ronald Reagan...
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MeDotOrg wrote: Yes, who can forget all of those conservative comedians trashing Ronald Reagan...
There are virtually no funny conservative comedians. The only one's that spring to mind are people like P.J. O'Rourke and Dave Barry, and they are conservative in the libertarian sense. A funny WND style conservative? Virtually unheard of. I can't think of a single example. Explicitly conservative comedy is generally atrocious. That, in of itself, is a really fascinating thing. I've read speculation as to why that is, but I'm not sure we honestly know. Remember Fox's attempt to answer The Daily Show with The Half Hour News Hour?
As far as comedians often treating Obama with kid-gloves, that's clearly the case. I would suggest that simply isn't a conscious effort to not hurt Obama's political mission, but rather that comedians just work at coming up with material that is funny to them and its easier to write sharper jokes about one's political enemies than one's political friends.
bcspace wrote:“Conservatives don’t think of their leaders as ‘messiahs’ (or mythical knights in the fictional kingdom of Camelot) and thus, poking fun at them is not sacrilegious,” he said. “To the modern liberal who looks to their leaders the way small children look to their parents, making fun of Obama is simply beyond them.”
That was a particularly strange assertion. First, I can think of many more examples of liberals making fun of conservative leaders than the reverse, though it's hard to know how much of that is simply the fact that virtually all comedians are liberal.