re: #132 Killgore Trout

Rachel Maddow and Glenn Beck are not equivalent. Every time you say this, it’s like declaring yourself incapable of making any sort of comparison in any way. It’s like saying that both Obama and Ron Paul are equivalent because they’re both politicians who came from outside the mainstream. Or another other ridiculously inapt comparison.

You’ve never really settled on whether you think that Maddow doesn’t actually have the politics she espoused, or not. I mean, that’s kind of central to your conspiracy theory about her just being a character, right? Because if she does believe in the stuff she and her team are producing, then she’s not a character, she’s just got a public persona, which is different.

And even if someone is a character— like Stephen Colbert, a real character— it doesn’t mean you can’t actually get good information from them. So not only is the comparison about what they are inapt, but you’re obviously, fatuously overlooking the difference in the quality of reporting on each show. You claim that you want a good media, but— despite Maddow’s pieces being well-researched and opposition speakers given civil and polite time to speak— you shit all over it.

Again and again: Playing stupid has the side effect of actually making you look stupid. Do it over and over, and people are going to conclude you actually are stupid.