The Conservative Cat

The blanket coverage of London terrorism is a terrible blow to Nancy Grace, Arubans, meteorologists, shark specialists, sexual predator experts, Tom Cruise, creationists, anti-sodomites and all other culture warriors and whackball fear-mongers who until now have owned the media. Just when watching the news was finally beginning to feel the way it did in the summer of 2001 -- terrifying, and yet inconsequential -- the media have forced us to go cold-turkey on crapola. One can only hope that this subsides soon. There will be much to say about Jennifer Garner's pregnancy. Journalistic integrity demands that it once again be given the attention it deserves.

That's the whole article, by the way.

Here, once again, you have a liberal attempting to mix humor and politics and failing miserably. Mr. Kaplan's diatribe doesn't teach anything new, and doesn't cause us to look at something a new way. (In that respect, it's identical to the Jann Wenner piece.) This is the problem with the Huffington Post: nonsense is still nonsense even if the person writing it used to work for Norman Lear.

Oddly enough, if you were to ask a conservative blogger to name Wednesday's big news story, the answer wouldn't have anything to do with Aruba or Jennifer Garner. It would be The Kelo vs. New London decision, the Supreme Court vacancy, and the G8 response to poverty in Africa.

It's tempting to say that liberals simply can't be funny because they take current events too seriously, but the truth is far different from that. In order to work properly, humor has to connect with the audience. If you think the audience is beneath you, the connection is a lot harder to make. Seen from that point of view, a light-hearted celebrity political blog is almost a guaranteed recipe for failure.

I hope Arianna's investors aren't too upset when they figure that out.

Respectfully submitted,

Ferdinand T. Cat