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I thought it was hilarious!!
It's clearly satire, and I didn't find it at all offensive.
It's taking a direct -- and very much-needed -- hit at the stupid celebrity shows that ARE offensive. Those shows attempt to make a celebrity "trend" out of everything, and the foreign adoption issue is a favorite.
Of course, Angelina Jolie, Madonna and Meg Ryan do not a "trend" or boom make, but try telling that to the media!!!!
It was clear to me that Daily Show realizes how stupid it all is and that's why they chose to spoof it.
I have a baby boy adopted from Guatemala. And you want to know what IS offensive to the family of an adopted child? Well...
Camille blathers:
"Democrats have ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, the New York Times, Newsweek, Time and 98 percent of American humanities professors to do their bidding. But no, that's not enough -- every spark of dissent has to be extinguished with buckets of bile."
Yoohoo Camille. Guess what? It's time to actually
READ....THE....WORDS....and WATCH....THE...NEWS....
Because last I checked, ABC News has signed on Glenn Beck -- yes, right wing Arab-hating bigot extraordinaire -- as a NEWS commentator. Watch five minutes of Chris Matthews. Hell, watch CNBC except for Olbermann. Check out NBC Today Show when Lauer is slobbering all over Ann Coulter. Read the New York Times and one of its wiffle-waffley editorials about Bush.
All you have to do is have a pair of eyes, ears and brain to realize that the media is about as far from liberally biased these days as it could get. Frankly, almost all the media need a grow a big pair when it comes to their "bias." They're all a bunch of scared wusses running around basically acting as mouthpieces for the administration, and letting Bush, Cheney and company get away with whatever they want.
And you are just parroting the same old same old conservative nonsense.
Why should we expect more? And yet we do...
Big sigh...
Camille, the idea that the media is biased toward liberals is very last century, clearly debunked, and anyone who is operating in the world of reality has figured that out.
To perpetuate that worn out old lie is to act as a mouthpiece for the same conservative nonsense that we get from your beloved Fox.
Come on, Camille. Get with it, it's 2007 toots...
And come on, Salon, between the ceaseless promotion of Hillary Clinton, the regularly scheduled Obama-bashing, Debra Dickerson's blacker-than-thou-ness, and now, the return of everyone's least favorite Conservative in pseudo-liberal clothing, you are just in obvious free fall...