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Anytime someone on the left makes a few bucks, the right tries to smear them as a hypocrite. Scuba Aug 2012 #1
The right? salvorhardin Aug 2012 #2
Never heard of The Baffler or any of the people you mentioned. Still, the right smearing... Scuba Aug 2012 #3
Thomas Frank, chevalier of the old guard Right. Apparently. kenny blankenship Aug 2012 #23
Was that level of rudeness really necessary? Chemisse Aug 2012 #19
Yes they are so bad the Fox News tried to duplicate it. But the came off as very mean and southernyankeebelle Aug 2012 #4
Isn't the Baffler a type of bra favored by women who don't like their husbands? I think it is. Squinch Aug 2012 #5
This shouldn't be located in the "Good Reads" forum... phleshdef Aug 2012 #6
This IS a Good Read. zeos3 Aug 2012 #7
I think Jon Stewart is overrated flamingdem Aug 2012 #9
Kill your TV! Animal Chin Aug 2012 #8
It's been this way with humor since Saturday Night Live started in the 70s flamingdem Aug 2012 #10
It seems to have gotten worse since the 1990s and the popularity of "irony" in comedy salvorhardin Aug 2012 #12
Lately the most penetrating humor is coming from the cartoonists flamingdem Aug 2012 #15
Four pages of JoeyT Aug 2012 #11
"whining" seanpencil Aug 2012 #16
You say that those that watch aren't reading regular news? LittleGirl Aug 2012 #21
voila seanpencil Aug 2012 #13
There are reasons people are not moved to action as before flamingdem Aug 2012 #14
good point seanpencil Aug 2012 #17
During the Bush years it was hard to even stomach the nightly news Chemisse Aug 2012 #18
Interesting fasttense Aug 2012 #20
An interesting read, but DionDem Aug 2012 #22
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