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And he is about to be tarred and feathered by the sloggers.
Of course: http://people-press.org/report/319/publi…
TL;DR - Daily Show/Colbert viewers are the most informed audience out there, scoring a full 20 points higher in knowledge of national and international affairs than the average. Also, people today are just as informed as they were 20 years ago.
That's rich, coming from someone too fucking lazy to look up Pramila Jayapal. Or is this a memoir?
Yeah that French intern didn't know jacque-sheet about truly being critical and condescending.
Lemme know when The Strangler gets a German intern--then we'll really get our balls nailed to the wall.
yeesh
http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=pramila+jayapal
If you're going to criticize people for being uninformed unless Jon Stewart makes a joke about it, maybe you shouldn't write statements like "a woman I have never heard of before" in reference to one of the state's leading immigration reform advocates. Dick.
You complaining about civic laziness. FUNNY!
It's all a ruse to get Slog riled up.
Big DUH!
I'm amused that Rally4Sanity and March4Fear rallies are scheduled for Ottawa and Calgary. I hope those crowds get energized by old "Talking to Americans" clips from "This Hour Has Twenty-Two Minutes."
Feel free to arrive early!
Oh, and if you're from out of town and here for the Rally To Impose Fear and Hate, don't bother paying for parking - I'm sure nobody will ticket you.
is your evidence for this? Are there plenty of apathetic hipster douche bags that watch The Daily Show? Of course. There are plenty of douche bags in any television audience, this is America. But there many informed and politically active citizens that watch The Daily Show, and this rally is helping to further increase the sense of community amongst this group. Go fuck yourself. :)
He isn't bitching about people not being civically engaged; he's bitching about people who are beneath his eminence being civically engaged, because then they'll do shit like "steal" from him. Which just goes to prove that libertarians and faux anarchists have more contempt for the common man than any other political group.
On the one hand if the slog is to have a conservative voice I would rather it be a reasonable one. On the other hand I'm guessing that a reasonable conservative would quickly give up on slog in disgust, and only a True Believer is hardened enough to stay despite the shit that will fly his or her way.
the troll is impressed
you nailed it.
and all the little piggies squealing-
even better.....
How productive is that? I'd say slightly less productive than reading a porno zine - by like 3 or 4 ounces.
Now for the fun:
@1 -- I like this guy.
@3 -- I knew someone would cite those figures. Hey guess what, a lot of Daily Show viewers are college-educated. Do they know more about the news because they watch Jon Stewart or because they have college degrees? Hmm.
@8 -- How original. "When you grow up..."
@10 -- You'll go far in life that way.
@13 -- I am eminently huggable.
@14 -- Worst=person who departs the slightest bit from the Slog commenter consensus?
@15 -- I'm writing, aren't I? That's the most valuable thing I can do. I don't believe in violence. I'm not going to be hatching any revolutions any time soon.
@24 -- On the contrary, I care a ton. I just have to be careful not to get too worked up about each and every issue or else I'd become a depressed and angry soul.
@32 -- Coming of political age in the last decade, my interaction with Stewart viewers has been primarily those of the apathetic hipster douche category. Sorry if I over-generalized.
@33 -- Contempt for the common man? I am the common man. I just don't like force initiated against peaceful people.
@36 -- So now I'm a conservative. Really? A guy who is probably to the left of all of you on ending war, torture, police brutality, and drug laws is a conservative? You need to get your mind out of the left-right paradigm and grow up a bit.
Great work all you Eastside people who have done the most to set this up!
(if they left it up to those of us in Seattle it would probably be even later)
The whiny fringe always gets steamrolled, whether in your precious anarcho-syndicalist commune or in a republican democracy. It's called LIFE.
I hope your anarchy is more considered than your writing.
Anyway, saw your correction on the verbage for the Lady you now know to be a big deal--your correction seemed a bit rich "Awesome Immigration advocate". guess you got a little smack down.
keep writin' you are good fodder for the sloggers.
we need to be entertained--it appears.
Before now TDS really hasn't been a rallying point for political activism & I’m by no means sure it will become one after this, especially since they equated Code Pink w/ the pro-torture, pro-war activists in their promotion for the rally. TDS has just been awesome at what it said it was, satire, and apathetic and nonapathetic people alike eat it up.
@44 -- And then this guy did it the wrong way. Anarcho-syndicalism, really? Just sloppy.
@47 -- And I'll give Stewart credit when he deserves it. I loved his takedown of Comedy Central in the aftermath of the South Park-Muhammad controversy last year.
@48 -- But I like the It Gets Better project. Watching Dan and Terry's video really got me.
I'm very sad for you that you didn't get the reference. Not surprising though, considering your staggering ignorance of just about everything.
The scores were based on knowledge of current events. I don't see how my degree from four years back could inform me about the world today. Hell, none of my courses described the world THEN.
And Stewart's show alone doesn't inform these people. I've got twenty or so news sources I read every day. I think Google Reader said something like 100,000 articles in the past year. We're educated, yes, but that's orthogonal to being informed.
You sound informed, but misguided.
Have fun with your mom at home tomorrow! You are a douche bag and will probably always be JUST an intern.
Enjoy your lonely life loser.
And I say give the Unpaid Intern a break. Like other commenters have said, he reminds me of myself at that age, albeit I was the Socialist version, and of course there was no internet then: we just mimeographed a lot of stuff and felt very agitprop about ourselves.
I've mellowed with age, as I'm sure he will - unless he becomes one of those angry middle-aged men who call the talk shows or gets his own cable access program, like that old man who used to drone on about how Californians shouldn't have to pay tax because California wasn't a state or something. If so, Then all bets are off.
Take away: public services are good when they're well-funded and run efficiently. Typically without the involvement of private enterprises. For another example, see what has happened on the PA turnpike since Citigroup has bought it off the state.