That’s Gotta Hurt
By Mitch Berg
Obama has apparently lost the Roseanne Barr vote.
Libtalker Stephanie “Like Laura Ingraham, But Lefty And Not Very Good” Miller asked Barr what she thought of the latest Obama speech:
BARR: I don’t at all. I just don’t at all. If you want to know what I think, go to read my blog, rosanneworld.com. And I don’t at all. Basically his speech, his you know joke of a speech.MILLER: Why?
BARR: Huh? Because it’s just Bush Doc… continuing, Bush Doctine with absolutely no change at all. It’s very frightening.
MILLER: How do you figure? I thought the tone was completely different.
BARR: He said nothing.
MILLER: He said nothing?
BARR: He said absolutely nothing. No, he didn’t.
MILLER: What were you hoping for?
BARR: I was hoping for you know some change.
He’s not radical enough!
June 11th, 2009 at 10:17 am
Actually, your opinion of Miller is purely that and nothing more. Miller is FAR FAR funnier and more entertaining than Ingram, and frankly, far less skin-deep on subject matter. She’s not the expert someone like Medved is on issues (that he cares about), and she doesn’t talk to that level, but she certainly is better than the paper-thin Ingram.
In short, you don’t like her because she’s a lefty – I do like her and don’t like Ingram, and your comparison is nothing more/less than partisan invective (as is mine).
June 11th, 2009 at 10:27 am
Peev, that’s Ingraham, not Ingram. And since Mitch has made it quite clear that he does not like Glen Beck on the radio, your paper-thin accusation of partisanship is, well, easily shredded.
But Mitch can do that better than me.
June 11th, 2009 at 10:46 am
I’m sure she’s just the super duper deepest personality ever, penigma. I mean, you simply must be an intellectual heavy hitter to even think of interviewing Roseanne Barr.
June 11th, 2009 at 11:48 am
Actually, your opinion of Miller is purely that and nothing more.
No. I actually did a laboratory experiment to empirically determine which was better.
I sat 100 volunteers in a chair, hooked up to sensors that measured their brain waves (especially in their humor centers), physical reactions (“smile” muscle movement) and brain chemistry (releases of seratonin, adrenaline, dopamine and others) and had them listen to Miller, Ingraham, and a control program (usually “Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me”) in staggered order, and measured their responses.
Ingraham generated 55% more “positive” physical and chemical changes than Miller, after controlling for stated political bias in the test participants. Miller fared well excpet in seratonin, where the drop in output during her show mimicked the behavior of mild clinical depression.
The results and raw data were peer-reviewed over the past six months by the board of review of the American Political Psychology Association. The study is upcoming in the July issue of the Proceedings of the APPA.
So my statement is, in fact, backed with the full weight of empirical evidence.
OF COURSE it’s an opinion.
June 11th, 2009 at 11:50 am
Kerm,
What you said. There are plenty of conservative hosts I disdain; indeed, I don’t care much for Ingraham’s call-handling or interviewing. But she’s got 200-odd stations, and I’ve got one. There you have it.
Troy,
I would TOTALLY book Barr for an interview. Not for big insights, naturally; she’s such a trainwreck, it’d be fun to go for the ride.
June 11th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
Yeah, Laura sucks at interviews. She lets her emotions take control and can’t stop herself from talking over someone who has pissed her off.
OTOH, her production values are first class, and the overall presentation is excellent.
June 11th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
Actually, your opinion of Miller is purely that and nothing more.
A blogger with an opinion? Fancy that!
June 11th, 2009 at 12:19 pm
Ingraham must be doing something right because Stephie essentially ripped off her tagline.
Since about 2001-02, Laura’s slogan has been “Your Healthy Radio Addiction.”
Then in about ’06, they started promoting Miller’s show as ““Real, wickedly funny and so addictive that the Surgeon General recommends Rush not listen.”
Hey Peev, great to see you’ve crawled out from under your rock. Were you ducking Rep. Bachmann again??
June 11th, 2009 at 12:43 pm
No… no!!!
Not only does Peeve refute Mitch’s opinion with an opinion (not to mention, slap Mitch for having an opinion)… but we learn that Mitch Berg wants to ride Rosanne Barr!!!
Argh!
June 11th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
Game misconduct: Badda.
June 11th, 2009 at 1:30 pm
Wow. Even Angryclown thought that joke was too easy.
June 11th, 2009 at 1:31 pm
Were you ducking Rep. Bachmann again??
Hah!
June 11th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
Oh the humanity, Mitch, just buy a moped.
June 11th, 2009 at 1:42 pm
I grant you, Mitch, it was low hanging fruit.
😉
June 11th, 2009 at 2:07 pm
[Waiting for Peev to post a point by point criticism of the methodology Mitch used in his experiment.]
June 11th, 2009 at 3:44 pm
He’ll get to that LF just as soon as his Nobel scientist neighbor tells him how to conduct it.
June 11th, 2009 at 4:07 pm
Careful, Nerdbert… he’ll get his lawyer neighbor to sue you.
June 11th, 2009 at 8:17 pm
There are people who I have never met, but for some reason that I’m at a loss to explain, I’m sure smell bad.
Cher is one, and Stephanie Miller is another…..stale cheese and halitosis.
June 11th, 2009 at 8:25 pm
Maybe teh Peevee’s other neighbor, Madame Rochas, can set them up with a personal fragrance to offset the stench.
June 12th, 2009 at 2:52 pm
Carrie Prejean is at liberty, fired from her job as Miss California.
She’d be about as uninteresting as Roseanne, but at least more currently of interest.