relax.

I am a reader who stumbled onto your blog. I have less of an axe to grind than you. I assumed people form blogs because they want readers and I did not understand your point.

If your point was that Fox should not have canceled the show because it had good ratings, I agree with you. If your point was that Fox should not have canceled the show because you liked it, I agree with you.

I referred to Hot Air because many, many people thought the show was awful. I watched it three times and thought it was the most amateurish and strident show I had seen. The two African guys explaining how Blacks were the actual Jewish People on Cable had more interesting ideas and more open-mindedness.

Allow me to say one more thing: I didn’t accuse you of anything. I like blogs, especially the individual blogs like yours. I was commenting.

Can’t I have a fucking opinion without someone thinking that it’s fueled by some hardcore right-wing website? And I’m pretty sure that the Half Hour News Hour just ran the course of its 15 episodes that were scheduled and that FOX chose not to pick it up…which isn’t surprising because FOX executives are notoriously stupid (canceling Family Guy and Futurama?).

If the Media-bashed Fox’s other shows would Fox take THEM off the air?

Let us assume that Half Hour News Hour is a great show and is a ratings success; if it gets taken off the air, blame Fox News for being cowards.

I assume you read Hot Air and other Conservative sites: Half Hour News Hour is embarrassing to people who support its politics.

Sorry, but I put no faith in the report you cited simply because the Democracy Corps have Carville (Democrat), Greenberg (Democrat) and Shrum (Democrat) as their founders. They also list op-eds from Begalia (Democrat) and Friedman (Democrat) on their page. Just because they self-cite themselves as “independent” doesn’t make it so. Just like President Bush calling himself a good representation of the Republican Party doesn’t make it so (as the polls glaringly show us).

After having gone through masters-level statistics and getting into many fights with many professors, they all admitted (in front of the classes) that statistics can be and ARE frequently manipulated by think-tanks. Hey, someone has to pay the bills for these think-tanks and those funds come mostly in the form of grants and donations so these organizations must pump out what their money sources want to hear.

And even as political affiliation does form in one’s 20’s – it usually chances two and three times over the course of a person’s life. If that wasn’t so, then we’d all be Federalists (or more likely Democratic-Republicans since they dominated the early 1800’s). So is there a silent majority out there? Of course. Not everyone goes around with a picket sign or a cause. In fact, the a minority of the public goes around letting everyone know what they think. Most of us just kind of look at those people and either wonder how they pay the bills when they’re picketing during the day or say, “He makes a good point,” or “Wow. What an idiot.”

Like I said before – this silent majority is not Democrat or Republican. We’re something else (I like to call it “normal”).

As I see it they have just about lost 2008 in the presidential race and I predict congress will further slide toward the D’s.

Where I disagree is on the “silent majority” part. Political affiliation typically forms in one’s 20’s and many in that report I cited are Dems at about 50% in their 20’s so I think it is a lost cause for your party.

Of course, this silent majority (as I feel it) is neither Democrat or Republican. As I say time and time again, we’re all waiting for the 3rd party to come out and take over!

The problem is that those in power tend to not be funny. Limbaugh stopped being funny in 1995. I Should know I listened to him since 1987 when he began in NYC. As for the liberal bias of comedy central, yes they are to the left but remember they skewer the left when they deserve it unlike Faux News programs. As for liberal bias in general… to quote the great Stephen Colbert “Reality has a well known liberal bias.”

As for your leanings I am surprised you still think of yourself as a republican. They are a largely discredited lot and will lose heavily in 2008. For that matter a generation has been lost to the dems due to this administrations policies and those who have blindly followed them.

http://democracycorps.com/reports/analyses/Democracy_Corps_July_27_2007_Youth_Memo.pdf