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Well, Jon Stewart ignored Bernie Goldberg on his show tonight, but apparently Goldberg wasn't done whining to Bill-O about his treatment by Stewart on The Daily Show. He doubled down with pissing and moaning about how mean some commenters were on his blog and at least O'Reilly pointed out that this happens on all sides.

Bill-O also thinks that a comedy show is the "key component of left wing TV". So I guess a comedian ranks right up there with that mythical "left wing media" they keep harping about that doesn't exist. Ed Schultz, Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow do not a "left wing media" make and Keith's not some flaming liberal.

When MSNBC's lineup for the day consists of something along the line of Sam Seder, Randi Rhodes, Mike Malloy, Alan Colmes, David Shuster who they just booted, Nicole Sandler, Laura Flanders, Thom Hartmann, Cenk Uygur, Amy Goodman, Welton Gaddy, Mike Papantonio, Ted Kennedy Jr. and Ron Reagan Jr., along with Schultz, Olbermann and Maddow, then tell me there's an actual "liberal" television network out there.

Apparently the two of them are very upset that there is a lack of right wing comedians out there. I would imagine that might have something to do with conservative brains not recognizing satire. Case in point -- Colbert Study: Conservatives Don't Know He's Joking:

Last week, Stephen Colbert revisited a segment he had done on Florida Representative Bill Posey, who sponsored a bill that "would require future presidential candidates to provide a copy of their original birth certificate," in order to put insane rumors of President Barack Obama's birthplace to bed.

Colbert thought a similar measure should be taken to end the whisperings that Posey was a human-alligator hybrid. Posey, in response to Colbert, said, "I expected there would be some civil debate about it, but it wasn't civil...There is no reason to say that I'm the illegitimate grandson of an alligator." And one wondered, "Does Posey not realize that Colbert is not speaking in earnest? His reaction seems uniquely stupid!"

Stupid, yes. But apparently it's not unique at all, according to a study from The Ohio State University, which proves, with math and stuff, that lots of conservatives seem to not understand the intrinsic, underlying joke of The Colbert Report.

Here's Bill-O and Goldberg with their little cry-fest about how mean the commenters at his site were and bemoaning the lack of conservative comedians. Those damn liberal Hollywood elites keeping all of those not-funny nonexistent right comedians from having their chance to break out onto the scene! Damn them!...lol.

Hey guys, I'll give you a hint about what happens to comedians who used to be funny until they became flaming right wingers (or in Jackson's case, until she outed herself as one and started going to tea bag rallies). They end up being someone named Dennis Miller who isn't doing comedy tours any more, but O'Reilly's show, or this wingnut, Victoria Jackson. It's just amazing that no one finds them funny these days, isn't it?

I did actually used to like Dennis Miller back in the day when he had his series on HBO and he just strikes me as nothing but a shallow, angry shell of a man who no longer has anything of substance to say when I watch him these days. After he let 9-11 fry his brain and Bill Clinton was no longer around to beat up on day after day he's digressed to humor that the average 9th grader can relate to.

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Ron Reagan Jr. and Joan Walsh on Hardball reminding Chris Matthews that reality seems to have a liberal bias. As they both point out, once again, the Villagers were wrong, and the "loony left," as the media likes to dismiss any of us as, were right.

I disagree with both of them on one point, though. There is nothing "honorable" about what Tom Ridge is doing. He didn't quit and speak up when he was first asked to do this. And now that he's got a book to sell, suddenly he's feeding the public some half truths about what went on to gin up some interest in it.

Glenn Greenwald and Marcy Wheeler have had a bit of an interesting exchange with The Atlantic's Marc Ambinder over his reaction to Ridge's latest revelation that are well worth the read on the topic of how the Villagers treat the left.

Greenwald: Fringe leftist losers: wrong even when they're right:

Just as is still commonly said about opponents of the Iraq War (even though they were right, they were still wrong and unSerious because their motives were bad), Ambinder acknowledges that Bush critics were right that the terror alerts were being manipulated for political ends (he has no choice but to acknowledge that now that Ridge admits it), but still says journalists like himself were right to scorn such critics "because these folks based their assumption on gut hatred for President Bush, and not on any evaluation of the raw intelligence." As always: even when the dirty leftist hippies are proven right, they're still Shrill, unSerious Losers who every decent person and "journalist" scorns.

Wheeler: Ambinder: Sorry I Was So Stupid, But I Was Right To Be Stupid:

Mark Ambinder takes the opportunity of Ridge's confirmation that the terror alerts were one big political game to claim he was justified in believing that we DFHers were wrong about the alerts--and in doing so, demonstrates what is so wrong with so much of Village journalism.

Be sure to check out the rest of both posts if you haven't already. Reagan and Walsh should read them as well if they haven't. By showing such deference to Ridge they're simply feeding into the narrative they're attempting to beat back here.