Wingnuts Who Watch ‘Colbert Report’ Don’t Know It’s Satire
Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
Not to be prejudiced or anything, but a short tour around the Internets pretty easily proves that conservatives don’t “get” satire or parody. Why? The answer probably has something to do with “belief in simple absolutes” and “sex shame” and “childhood brain damage,” and research from 30 years ago showed dogmatic people tend to be both dumb and unable to comprehend satire. And that’s why wingnuts don’t understand that Stephen Colbert’s Comedy Central parody of Fox News is, in fact, a comedic parody. MORE »











All the libtards who watched Paul Krugman go cross-eyed with frustration on This Week yesterday as he
THEY GOT WHAT NOW? Here’s a four-page Atlantic article about how the Web has ruined the brains of book readers and writers and now we can only deal with single-sentence blog posts. [