{"id":74407,"date":"2022-09-18T01:00:49","date_gmt":"2022-09-18T05:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=74407"},"modified":"2022-09-17T09:55:41","modified_gmt":"2022-09-17T13:55:41","slug":"qotd-late-night-tvs-negative-impact-on-us-national-culture-aka-clown-nose-on-clown-nose-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2022\/09\/18\/qotd-late-night-tvs-negative-impact-on-us-national-culture-aka-clown-nose-on-clown-nose-off\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Late night TV&#8217;s negative impact on US national culture (aka &#8220;Clown nose on, clown nose off&#8221;)"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 15px 10px 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>I truly believe that Tim Pool is absolutely right about where the political poisoning of our National culture comes from.<\/p>\n<p>Shows like <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em>, the <em>Daily Show<\/em>, late night television &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>They take the news, spin it through a comedy filter, and present it to the masses. This presents an easily digestible, and thus easily believable, simplified and polarized view of events, that their viewers are then encouraged to apply to the news that is coming from real news sources. Anyone who objects to this is &#8220;overreacting, or doesn&#8217;t have a sense of humor&#8221; and thus is dismissed as irrelevant.<\/p>\n<p>And thus the culture of lies continues, and gets ramped up as it spreads.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s sickening.<\/p>\n<p>James Resoldier, posting to <em>MeWe<\/em>&#8216;s &#8220;Hoyt&#8217;s Huns&#8221; group, 2022-06-16. (private group, so no public URL available)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I truly believe that Tim Pool is absolutely right about where the political poisoning of our National culture comes from. Shows like Saturday Night Live, the Daily Show, late night television &#8230; They take the news, spin it through a comedy filter, and present it to the masses. This presents an easily digestible, and thus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,53,41,13],"tags":[86,1020,269,101],"class_list":["post-74407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-criticism","tag-progressives","tag-propaganda","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-jm7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74407"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76555,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74407\/revisions\/76555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}