Limbaugh v StewartFollow

Are you trying to hurt my feelings? If so, you're succeeding.

Fortunately my feelings regenerate at twice the speed of a normal man.

You're funnier than the dwarfs on those TLC shows if that helps.

I tend to hold grudges.

In your tiny, tiny hands?

He does report the news. He reports the news as filtered to sheltered xenophobes. It's a market niche that someone else would fill were he not there. He's not there to teach something new, that would be diametrically opposed to his audiences wishes. He's there to (Mis)interpret the news, and fit it in to an established narrative so the viewership can feel safe and secure in their prejudices in a world in which that stability is being assaulted from every angle. It's typically beneficial for these people to be assuaged rather than directly assaulted, as it's better they burn out like a candle than a Molotov. He's a security blanket for those who have lost it.

Considering your Man Seeking Man profile, I can safely say I'm glad I'm below your standards for masculinity.

No clue how satirical this was (don't listen to Limbaugh, so no clue), but there is a semi-point with regard to the Left and seeing skin first and foremost. I was struck this week by a statement Obama made where he said how much the kidnapped girls had in common with his daughters. And I recalled him saying more or less the same sort of thing about Treyvon Martin (comparing him to a hypothetical son he might have had). And in both cases, my immediate response was that, no, other than skin color, these kids have nothing in common with your children, real or hypothetical.

Which does certainly support the theory that at least some people on the Left seem to weigh skin color more than other factors, like say poverty, culture, language, etc. I'm reasonably certain, for example, that there's millions of poor white folks who's children have more in common with Treyvon Martin than any son Obama might have raised. Yet he has this odd need to claim some kind of special connection based apparently solely on skin color. So maybe there's something to that?

Aww, the Man For Man can't even find anyone to talk to so he's talking to himself.

That was Michelle Obama and the comparisons she made had nothing to do with skin color:

You can argue that the Obama girls' risk in going to school -- even before their father was involved in politics -- isn't really comparable to the risk of a girl in Nigeria but the thrust of it was pretty obviously "We're parents as well and know what it's like to be invested in your children".

But I suppose getting both the person and the message wrong counts as a good reason as any to start crying about how the president is playing some race card and babbling on some half-assed screed about "the Left" and yadda yadda. Here's something I've learned about "the Right": They would rather cry about "the Left" than read a fucking article and get some basic facts correct. My post is my cite.

Maybe they both liked Skittles?