I yearn for the days SNL and comedians were not political hacks in disguise.

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(03-26-2024, 12:58 AM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Again, I think you're missing the mark.  The point being made isn't that Biden should be treated with disdain, while Trump is lionized.  It's that all politicians be skewered for their shortcomings, as used to be the case, completely consistently.  None of those people (maybe a very few) really have our best interests at heart, and they should all be treated as such.



This used to be the case.  Now it's pure pandering, as you have admitted.

People want to be pandered to.  People want their political safe spaces.  It's why Jon Stewart got backlash for bashing Biden and Fox News got lambasted for saying Trump lost AZ.  If you don't tell someone what they want to hear, someone else will.

It's also possible that stuff wasn't as "fair" as we think it used to be.  I recall people saying the media was completely unfair to and played a large role in turning Dan Quayle into a laughingstock.  I'm pretty sure Letterman had the kid who was told to spell potato "POTATOE" on his show,