Is there a conservative leaning late night show like “The Late Show with Colbert”?
Jay Leno is a relatively “pro conservative” comedian. I have no idea if his replacement Jimmy Fallon is or isn't since I don't really enjoy watching him; I tried but I just can't watch him. The GOP’s Love Affair With Jay LenoFrankly, most comedians like Jon Stuart et al are pretty politically neutral. They don't shy away from making fun of either party. Jon mocked many a democrat when they did stupid things too. He was also more than willing to have conservatives on the show as guests. If they didn't lie about things that they had said on tape and could actually support their claims in a rational conversation their interviews would go quite well. I remember being impressed with a few conservatives who went on his show.Nightly comedians are by necessity opportunistic. Think about it, they have 8 hrs to write a funny script, put together graphics, shoot it (at a fixed time with a studio audience), edit it, get it on air, and do it again the next day…Maybe the better question to ask is why so many “conservatives” seem to make themselves such easy targets of opportunity compared to “liberals”?I mean the liberals are not organized. They are so easy to out maneuver. Conservatives just keep making hilarious unforced errors. I assume it's because they are pushing one agenda in public to appeal to the crowd and another contradictory agenda based on “conservative purity;” which always sounded pretty pseudo-nazi-ish to me… Quick prove your conservative purity! Let's see your voting history for 3 generations because I head someone in your family was a member of the ACLU!
What does conservatives' humor look like? Is there a conservative equivalent of Jon Stewart or Trevor Noah?
That’s a great question. The answer illustrates both the main difference between the two ideals of US conservatism versus US Liberalism.I often wondered why it is that the airwaves, cable, and media in general is full of Right Wing blowhards preaching the conservative gospel, but there is no Liberal equivalent. The answer to this question is the same as the answer to the question you posed.Essentially, our minds are just plain wired differently. The Liberal would for example, reject the constant media reinforcement of Liberal ideals that the conservatives seem to be unable to live without. Like religion, conservatism must be constantly bellowed from every source to keep the conservative constantly repeating the Right Wing mantra, or reality will seep in to their consciousnesses and they will begin to see that the real world is actually nothing like the fiction that Limbaugh, Hannity, Alex Jones, and the rest, constantly convince them of. In order to get people to believe a lie, or to believe in a doctrine that is diametrically in conflict with human reality, it must be repeated over and over and over, and the targets of this repetition must be simultaneously convinced to reject any information that conflicts with the indoctrination.Same with humor. The Liberal mind is much more open to abstraction and much more flexible. The conservative simply wants to be told what to believe, and has neither the capacity or the will for openness or flexibility in thinking. This is a product of the evolution of conservative dialogue from what it was a generation ago, to what it is today.In the 1960s, the face of conservatism in the media were people like William F Buckley. Buckley was a brilliant speaker, debater, writer, and wit. One might not necessarily agree with him, but he was logical, entertaining, and most of all, the pinnacle of civility. By contrast, today’s so called “conservative” is defined by the likes of Limbaugh and Alex Jones. The ideals are defined by prejudice, ignorance, fear and hate.And in the context of rage, anger, ignorance, and hatred, there is little room for humor.