Can 30 Rock Save The Republican Party? • Here is an essay from Slate called "I Want To GOP To There" about 30 Rock's conservative politics. Sure. Although, the counterpoint is that somebody put too many farts in this engine, it's about to EXPLODE.
Posted at 1:15 PM in Everyone's A Critic
Tags: 30 Rock | Politics
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Uh. OK. Well, first let's address what this movie did well, like the disappointed parents we are (or at least that I am), recognizing that the negative feedback won't be useful or constructive if it isn't preceded by something positive....
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wow. talk about missing the point.
Score = 4
Hell no. I fuckin sure hope the GOP doesn't really on some crazy, unfunny show to try to reconnect with us. That is not what we want GOP. That is not what we want!
Score = -20
lol irony
Score = 1
After all his musing on how Liz Lemon's eternally adolescent behavior somehow makes her "liberal," the author conveniently ignores the fact that we just survived eight years of George W. Bush.
Also the author doesn't quite understand that with humor, sometimes it's about making fun of ourselves, EVEN AT THE EXPENSE OF OUR POLITICAL WORLDVIEW.
Score = 2
understood, yes-- and mourned AT THE EXPENSE OF THE FUNNY
Score = 0
Also, the show is about a huge corporation, so yeah, I imagine having the more conservative viewpoint "win" the arguments is... how do you say... realistic?
Score = 3
Slate published a counter-intuitive and unsubstantiated essay? You don't say.
Score = 5