Arlen, You Ignorant Slut

So this morning on NPR news there's a segment about Corporation for Public Broadcasting's Kenneth "I'm Right-Wing to Show PBS/NPR Has No Political Bias" Tomlinson and Senator Arlen "Why Didn't I Do More to Get Him Un-Elected When I Lived in Pennsylvania" Specter. At one point Specter suggests Tomlinson debate long-time PBS icon Bill Moyers, who, of course, is a liberal with horns and a tail. Tomlinson surprisingly says he would. Then Specter says, "If you two did that, maybe it should be on Saturday Night Live."

Did I mention I didn't do enough to get Specter un-elected when I suffered my time in Pennsylvania? (At least I left before the dawning of the age of Santorum.)

Meanwhile over at Campus Progress there's this exchange between a writer and Stephen Colbert from The Daily Show:

CP: It seems like some comedians don’t want to touch political comedy. Why?
SC: Well, you have to have a passionate opinion; otherwise you sound false. You end up telling the audience jokes they’ve already heard. The example I think of when I was just starting out was Ted Kennedy drinking jokes. Like, "Ted Kennedy—‘nuff said." That’s not a joke—that’s a flippant cynical dismissal of someone in politics. It inures the audience to feeling or thought so it’s not satire.

'Nuff said, indeed.