Glenn Beck Slaps Up Keith Olbermann

Olbermann insists his staff communicate with him via a mailbox outside his office?

Huh. It's good to be the king of bottom-dwelling partisan newscasts.

Allah drops a theory regarding the 1/2 Hour Comedy Hour there. He suggests that conservatives would like the show more if it were either funnier or more savage in cutting up liberals.

Or, of course, both at the same time, though I imagine that's a tricky thing to manage.

So it's a balancing act -- good-natured ribbing vs. savage attacks with less humor value but a whole lot of red-meat catharsis. If that's the case (and it just might be), it's hard to "objectively" pan the show, as it's attempting to find the sweet spot for a broad audience, and any particular person's idea of the sweet spot may be very different from the average.

Maybe that's the case. Though stuff like "B.O." magazine is neither funny nor a cutting attack.

posted by Ace at 02:12 PM

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