Oh, FFS. Do these morons really believe this?
John Oliver, Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart may have saved us from a Republican Senate http://t.co/reMeZaxPku pic.twitter.com/z6Xk3y8Yfr
— Salon (@Salon) October 30, 2014
Apparently so. An excerpt:
We do know, though, that satire resonates with millennials and that it has been an ongoing and effective source of critique for GOP messaging. Satire has shown us that Republicans don’t get millennials or women or citizens of color, and that GOP candidates disparage science, homosexuals, and 47% of the population. It’s worth remembering that Stewart used his first Texas show to remind viewers that Ebola panic was more about fear than about reason and then he went on to interview Davis in a segment that underscored that this election is all about turnout. And that is the same message he was spreading four years ago on the National Mall. Will fear win? Or will sanity? So if millennials turn out this November, we’ll be thanking satire for its productive use of cynicism and its reasonable use of irony.
Good luck with this, libs. Now let’s take a gander at what others think:
@Salon Fine, but even Stewart has admitted that the Rally to restore sanity was a bad idea.
— Frinco (@VictorZapat1) October 30, 2014
@Salon nope
— Sharia Law enforcer ? (@BasedKashiBar) October 30, 2014
.@Salon @RobProvince Too bad satire can only feed and house a talented few while the millennials… http://t.co/kaxxtUCHEv
— Lem (@Lemang01) October 30, 2014
Wow @Salon, desperate for content? A page full of Stewart, Colbert, Oliver, O'Reilly – really?
— sjcarl (@sjcarl) October 30, 2014
And we’ll leave it with this:
Serious question: how much of a cut do John Stewart and John Oliver get from Vox, Salon, and others?
— Ben Smith (@BenSmithDC) October 27, 2014
A good question.
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