I'd say "somewhat." The war in Europe was fought between the British/Americans and Germans observing most of the so-called rules of war (unrestricted submarine warfare being a huge caveat). The Pacific War, not so much. The thing to realize, however, is that both sides thought they were the master race and both sides…

The stakes have seldom been higher or the sides more divided, yet
bipartisan comedy still pretends that there’s value in standing on the
sidelines and quipping mildly about how Bill Clinton loves food and
women equally, Mitt Romney is a blow-dried, milk-drinking Mormon
flip-flopper, and Sarah Palin is an airheaded…

Obama's policies on things like that amount to Bush, but without the really stupid, counter-productive stuff. Which was more or less how Bill Clinton governed. I don't think there's much evidence that Stewart has much of a problem with that stuff.

@avclub-3a53af9e954d9043d860719e175d72fe:disqus You just can't handle the tr…..okay, you're right about that, but Taibbi's worth putting up with just for his coverage of the financial elite.

With the lack of attention they seem to give to the comics pages, newspaper editors might have not noticed that Mallard Fillmore was political and just assumed it was Shoe.

Have they ever satirized libertarians? Because it always seemed to me that they were basically just doing satire from a libertarian perspective, which happens to hit both of the major parties and/or tendencies in U.S. politics in some ways. But I haven't watched the show in years, so tell me if I'm wrong.

Yeah. The thing to me about right wing complaints about "political correctness" isn't that they're always without merit, it's that right wingers themselves are as politically correct as a faculty senate meeting, just about different things.

Typically, this isn't how change has happened in U.S. history.

I don't buy this idea. Say what you will about the tenets of American conservatism, but at least it's an ethos. Abortion should be illegal, taxes should be lower on the rich, we should start more wars, a gun in every pot, or whatever. Especially the anti abortion brigade have very definite policy preferences.

That's at least two layers, then. And Sir Mix-a-lot himself predicted that white boys would shout, ie cover his song.

Naw. This one is still funny because it's Baby Got Back which is a kinda funny tongue in cheek (see what I did there?) song to begin with and because Coulton is nerdier than the average.

@avclub-3a964157d2661371723992a5bbe09992:disqus So, I can assume you're John Landgraff, right?

Convicted felons mostly understand that Ride With the Devil is most underrated movie of the 90s and richly deserved it's Criterion release a couple years ago.

I would like to have seen (a Rollerball remake after church in) Montana.

PBS can also give you the gift of your seeing your elderly church lady grandmother laugh at all the gay jokes and general innuendo on its formerly endless reruns of Are You Being Served?

@avclub-54a2076b0dac5ce5c66169c12d3c55d5:disqus I'm not sure how much of this Lord Fellowes knows or doesn't know, but in the late 19th and early 20th centuries British agriculture apparently became a lot less profitable so your giant landed estate raised a lot less money from renting out your land to tenants to farm.…

If the family had ruled Westeros, Ned Stark would never be able to figure out the Cosby's genetics and Queen Claire would have gotten away with the whole thing.

He really didn't pursue her so ardently, though? She chased after him and he kept trying to put her off, at least for awhile.

In America, we say everything is crookeder with Michael Rooker.

McGovern in real life lives in England most of the time and is married to a British director, so that mismash might be her real accent at this point.