This is a stretch of a hypothesis, since Palin eventually appeared on his show. But Conan, round about the time Dave had his trouble, was pretty consistently joking about the ex-Governor's unwillingness to finish a term. Nothing that could - at lest to a non-political third person - come across as that mean.
Paraphrased example: Oh, Governor Palin has a book deal. Which means, of course, that she'll quit after about page 112. Now, some people (but not likely her, as she did show up on his show) probably objected to Shatner coming on and reading Levi's tweets (he only objected to reading a Twitter stream that the show didn't recognize as fake), and then reading excerpts from her book. Again, Palin appeared on the show to turn the tables on Shatner, and never objected - AFAIK - to what Conan was doing. This still seems a bit of a stretch, and from what I've read, the objections are more along the lines of Jay being a "decent, family values guy" because he'd never have a Masturbating Bear, or some such thing. It's lazy to presume a Red/Blue divide (beyond the inherent laziness of that trope) just on this, as it's a variation of Jay being a Middle America guy - another lazy equation of Middle America and 'safe' comedy. David ________________________________ From: PGage <[email protected]> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 7:29 AM, Mark J. <[email protected]> wrote: > >>And are all of the Conan-bashers on these blogs over-65 Republicans? >>After all, they seem to dominate all MSM blogs/message boards. > I am starting to read repeated reports of a Red State = Leno, Blue State = Conan divide. When, how, and why did that happen? I know Leno was an early supporter of the Republican Chief of State in CA, but Arnold is hardly your typical Red Stater, and to the extent we know anything about Leno's personal politics they lean to the left (and his wife's clearly do). Conan, OTOH is they guy who got in trouble with liberals for letting Sarah Silverman tell her hilarious "racist" Chinese joke. I am not saying the affiliations are reveres, I am just saying it seems incoherent to lay political ideology over the late night talk show feuds. I know there are tribes of people who inhabit the internet who turn everything into some kind of Obama or Palin conspiracy plot, but this seems really ridiculous. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
