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As Jon Stewart winds down his 19-year stint as host of Comedy Central's The Daily Show, he and Stephen Colbert sit at the peak of American punditry despite their left-leaning view of life, the universe and everything.
In an era of diffused voices and divided politics, they are well known, widely admired, and speak to Americans in ways that no one else does, according to a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll.
This poll tracks 10 different pundits. Split evenly between conservative and liberal. It is also worth noting that four of the five on the liberal side are comedians, while none of the conservative pundits are trained to tell jokes.
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(Score: 2) by GungnirSniper on Monday May 11 2015, @06:23PM
"One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results." - Milton Friedman
Back when Obamacare was being debated, the left didn't frame the debate as something that would work, but that those that opposed it were heartless, merciless beasts. It was the right that had principled stances, such as the right not to buy insurance, or the comatose doctrine of limited powers.
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(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Monday May 11 2015, @06:32PM
Back when Obamacare was being debated...
But wait, according to jmorris the right's pundits don't use slogans! How is it possible that people refer to the Affordable Care Acts by such a name?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Joe Desertrat on Monday May 11 2015, @06:35PM
It was the right that had principled stances, such as the right not to buy insurance, or the comatose doctrine of limited powers.
The only "principles" involved were that Obama must not look good, that no government programs should prove better than private industry (might put to lie the "it's better to privatize" myth) and that nothing even remotely like socialism should succeed. Any other principles such as those you mention are immediately cast aside when it benefits the interests of those on the right.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Monday May 11 2015, @06:48PM
The only "principles" involved were that Obama must not look good,
jmorris is trying to be funny! It is the only possible explanation. This is the point of the FA: conservatives are incapable of humor, the best they can do is be racist, they mistake making fun of others for being funny. jmorris is an excellent example of this. Too bad about Bill O'Reilly.
(Score: 5, Informative) by snick on Monday May 11 2015, @06:36PM
So ... that whole Death Panels thing ... We're just dropping that down the memory hole?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 11 2015, @10:37PM
The actual Left (not the Dems who are a tiny bit less Wrong-Wing) recognized Obamacare as Romneycare rehashed.
It was|is a giant giveaway to the most inefficient insurance corporations on the planet and actual Lefties didn't|don't want any part of it.
What an actual Lefty wanted was for Bill Clinton to have started ratcheting down the age of eligibility for Medicare[1] by 5 years with each Congressional session.
If such an effort had been sustained, by now every American would be 100 percent covered from birth by a single public system, the way they do it in the Advanced Countries.
[1] The most cost-effective heath insurance program in the USA.
-- gewg_