Are you arguing one of them wasn't a real conservative? Or one of them was more of a real conservative than the other? Are you arguing Trump, the most atypical figure in the history of American politics, is a good model to emulate in order to win future elections?

Never thought of that way, but I like that idea.

This sort of article does nothing to inform anyone of anything, nor are we bereft of websites or other means of staying informed. All it does is share the message "We don't like Trump and the other Republicans" so people can self-congratulatorily share in the "yeah, I don't like Trump or the other Republicans,…

"Useless phrases" being whatever you disagree with. Virtue signalling is a thing. It's irrelevant whether you're willing to acknowledge that or not.

Then don't read. Look elsewhere.

"Anything I don't believe in is meaningless, so I have no respect for it." Every post you ever wrote, ever.

You can get that at Salon. The AV Club is virtue-signalling now, and I thought the writers were smarter than that.

Largely, but "we" didn't do it. I doubt more than a minuscule percentage of readers here voted for Trump. So "we" don't deserve to be punished with these articles. It's like the puritan days where everyone had to flagellate themselves because Adam and Eve sinned.

As long as they insist on writing them, I'm going to insist on claiming it's a bad editorial decision.

Depends on whether registered Democrats actually nominate progressives, rather than people who strategize "If people vote for conservatives, and I act like a conservative, I'll win the election!" In a choice between a pretend conservative and a real conservative, voters will go for the real conservative every time. If…

Did anyone on this site elect him? Then why do we have to suffer though articles like this? The AV Club is going through a weird hairshirt phase.

Remind me of my age. Just entertaining a little self-deprecating humor, no actual problem with your comment. I was 30 at the time…

Is not even this too political for a site dedicated to entertainment news? *sigh*

"I was 4 when this interview aired then."

Mostly agree, but MacFarlane has gone to great lengths to distance himself from Brian, who over the years has "evolved" into an intolerable value-signalling jerk and a pretentious but talentless writer to boot.

Er, you seem to have a similar problem reading him as you claim others do. Why are so many people with agenda politics so humorless?

"This ain't your father's form of hype." Now said viewer likely is a father.

I think he looks adorably young. So wide-eyed and kinda earnest seeming. He is not that way now. Oh, aging, you leave no one unscathed (says guy in his late 40's).

The DVD commentary is actually a bad idea, and I'm glad David Lynch doesn't do them. Is commentary on Citizen Kane or Psycho or something helpful if we want to dig into the academic or film criticism side of movie viewing? Sure. But most movies don't rate that.

You've teased us before with the notion that you'd to do an article on Coreyography. When are we going to get to that?