Nice Work If You Can Get It

See if you can follow this. It's the left-wing (Although the term "state-run media" is amusingly stupid too.) media claiming that Hollywood/New York telebision comedy leftists are BHO's "comedy base."

Is President Obama in trouble with his late-night comedy base?

Here questions must be asked: "Read more? Is this enough for the rubes? Could it be any stupider or more mockable? How will we feel about it after we take off our sneakers & socks?" (Not any more decisive, that's how. Lighting a Camel©, however, inspires us to jump in. The explanation of "comedy base" may be better than the phrase alone.)

Well, no. (There's a big damn surprise. When the typist's opening line is a shorter, don't bother yourself.) Once we reach, if not facts, at least quotes from people who are not pro typist Mark Leibovich, & are identified as partisan, the air is let out of his balloon.

“There have been some clear shots coming across the bow from the comic left,” observed Ric Keller, a former Republican congressman from Florida who once wrote jokes for Jeb Bush, the former governor.

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Jeff Nussbaum, a Democratic speech and joke writer, disagrees that late-night comedy is a leading indicator of a cultural zeitgeist. “To use an economic term, it is more of a lagging indicator,” he said, something that responds to perceptions that are already entrenched. In practical terms, President Obama has now been in office almost nine months, Mr. Nussbaum said, and “comedians now have a greater body of work to go after, for better or worse.”

The Democrat somewhat connected to reality & fact. The Republican, a world of blather & metaphor. Heh indeed. (Or: Selective editing or quote choice by the minions of the state, to make Republicans look foolish?) "Comic left?" The bastards have politicized humor!

Here the typist undercuts (We like understatement, ourself.) his headline & first sentence by quoting someone w/ pesky ol' facts, essentially admitting that the "Trouble in the base?" thing would never have been written if not for last wk.'s Saturday Night Live opening & a Daily Show bit.

By and large, the bulk of late-night barbs directed at the president remain glancing at best. “The jokes are still largely about things like how the media lionizes Obama, or what the opposition is saying about him,” said Bob Lichter, of George Mason University’s Center for Media and Public Affairs, who has been tracking themes in late-night humor since 1988.

(Whooo! We'd work a gig like that for room, board & cigarette money.)

The eventual point of our essay being that one can't read a piece of objectively trifling (or vice versa) fluff like this w/o typing "Hey, it's piffle!!"