The tone of televised political editorial has reached pulpit-pounding, evangelical proportions. All that smoke from the fire and brimstone is beginning to burn the eyes and ears of the viewers.
While the words challenge George Carlin’s “7 Dirty Words You Can’t Say On Television” for vocabulary, the syntax is addressing many hot-button issues in ways the good old ‘traditional’ media could never have dreamed of. And it appears it’s all happening on cable.
MSNBC has Keith Olbermann every weekday evening, while Comedy Central’s dynamic duo of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert book-end the political topics of the day four nights a week.
Tonight, HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher” in a live broadcast to the east coast (tape delayed elsewhere), delivered what I believe to be the single biggest political, and politically incorrect, salvo I’ve ever heard anyone utter. Offered without comment.
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