It turns out there is such a thing as a "South Park Republican" after all. The animated series, created by irreverent Republicans Trey Parker and Matt Stone, is the cable fave for self-described GOP participants in a Nielsen IAG survey. While Democratic eyes were on The Colbert Report and working men shows like Deadliest Catch and Ax Men, the bipartisan favorite was The Cleaner, a episodic drama about a really cute recovering druggie who helps others get clean, kinda Magnum I.V. meets Touched by an Addict.
The GOP viewers were also fond of the quiz show Cash Cab; Battle 360 about the "real" Enterprise (the destroyer, not the starship); Dr Who; and oddly, the pro-tort legal drama Damages. But the absolute weirdest favorite cable show of Republicans? Rock of Love, starring Poison frontman and former hair band god Bret Michaels stumbling through a house of strippers and assorted other buxom fame whores women looking for a meal ticket a relationship. Because, really that’s what small town American values are all about…
Meanwhile, the Dems showed their East Coast liberal elitism by tuning into VH1’s other romance show I Love NY .





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The Doctor!?
I am outraged. The Doctor is the most lefty show on TV! Turn Left was brilliant, all about the importance of the most overlooked temp.
He never uses a weapon.
Ever.
Who looks at a screwdriver and says- “This could be more Sonic.”
Sigh. I suppose it’s the same mouthbreathing idiocy that makes them think Stephen Colbert is really a conservative.
I agree. The Doctor? Pulease.
The wealthy Repubs watch CNBC 24/7…the poor Repubs watch Trading Spouses and home makeover shows…oh yeah and the 700 Club. What a strange party they are…Seems that the rich Repubs use the poor Repubs as loyal subjects to create their wealth and then they pretend that they are one and the same with stupid Rovian racist one-liners to divide and conquer….here you have super wealthy John McCain trying to pretend that he is like Joe the Plumber…oops, I think he must have meant the other plumber, his friend, Gordon Liddy the Plumber… Oh yeah, and McCain watches ESPN all the time and hogs the remote…per Mrs. McTrollop.
This reminds me of Randy Newman’s comment that his philosophy of life was driving down the highway in a 57 Chevy convertible with a good looking redhead. As he said, he never said his philosophy was deep just that it was his.
lol
doctor who must be oppositional reaearch for these thugs. I’m frankly a bit surprised ghost whisperer and stargate don’t make their list of faves
I’m going crazy sitting in an airport listening to the PA system announce “the department of homeland security has raised the threat level to orange….” once every minute on the minute… hasn’t it be yellow for years.
Hmmmm.
Bugga, bugga time…must be an election coming up…
Wow, kiddos, John Shadegg’s credit card found in a dem headquarter’s office.
Watergate revisited?
Aha!
Throw this back at McSame ASAP:
” Oct. 21 (Bloomberg) — Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said the U.S. may be vulnerable to a terrorist attack during the next six months, with violent groups more likely to try to take advantage of a new president and administration.
“Any period of transition creates a greater vulnerability, meaning there’s more likelihood of distraction,” Chertoff said in an interview. “You have to be concerned it will create an operational opportunity for terrorists.”
He said that would be true whether Democrat Barack Obama or Republican John McCain is elected president on Nov. 4. That comment undercuts McCain’s argument that the U.S. would be more in danger of an attack if Obama, 47, wins.”
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/…..refer=home
Oh, my, my.
Then…there is always this…it’s even semi on topic…:
“London (ANI): The X Factor was put on terror alert after Islamist militant leader Omar Bakri claimed that it was an anti-Muslim show, because it had released a charity single for injured British troops. Bakri, 50, also hit out at Muslims who gave out or wore the Help For Heroes wristbands, or who were selling the show’s charity single Hero, scheduled for release on October 27.
After the ranting, anti-terror cops were in talks with the show’s producers to boost security at Fountain Studios in Wembley, North London, where the X Factor is filmed. “Producers have spoken to CID and anti-terrorism officers about the potential threat level, it’s being taken very seriously,” the Sun quoted a source as saying.”
http://entertainment.oneindia……11008.html
I’m well to the left of Barack Obama, as is my wife, and we often enjoy “South Park”. I think it’s more accurate to call the creators libertarians than Republicans. And I guess we’re more willing to laugh at ourselves than many folks are: we have a two-Prius household, and we laughed our heads off at their “Toyhonda Pious” episode, where too many hybrids filled up the town of South Park with “smug”.
They’ve taken plenty of good shots at the religious right, and unlike most conservatives they are often funny, though usually in poor taste. What else is Cartman, their main target, than the typical Young Republican?
And yes, they are often selfish jerks, like many libertarians.
Um…wow. South Park is a Repub sanctuary?
Not so.
See, this is what happens when you just read the tubes.
Ha Ha Ha.
I won’t say get a life.
South Park is sort of like Colbert…you have to “get” the joke. Repubs never get the joke.
Wait a second. I like Cash Cab, Dr. Who, and South Park. This means I have to vote for Sarah Palin?
BTW, the premise of Cash Cab is that you answer questions of increasing difficulty until you either reach your destination or miss three in a row, in which case they toss you out of the cab. Palin would be walking in a block.
In that case, I sure do want Sarah in charge. Give it up, Chertoff.
I keep wondering what will happen in the next two weeks…
It’s weird. It’s as if the Neocons are throwing McCain under the bus…heh.
Breaking (not kidding): From KO – RNC spent $150,000 on clothes and accessories for Palin and family. Neiman Marcus, etc.
Sarah has so far gotten $150,000 in clothing from the R party.
It’s some kind of communistic redistribution of RNC wealth.
Wow. Heavy.
Wouldn’t you, if you were there boss? I mean, they are kind of creepy people, don’t you thing?
I owe you a drink. Spanish wine? Hold out your glass.
which only goes to prove the adage: You can dress them up but you can’t take them out…
If only.
Before (well “after” Palin was in the pageant), but before the nomination, she always wore clothes from hunting catalogs or something…NorthFace, etc., lots of fuzzy jackets and flat shoes and mucklucs, and she prided herself in dressing down. She never dressed like the $%&(^%*^$ they have her dressed as today. These RNC people have turned her into a woman who all of the Puke guys lust over (and Mika B too)….
She has no pride…she allowed them to create a nothing out of what little she already was.
Well, maybe the deal was, “Sarah, if you run, no matter what happens, you get to keep all the stuff we bought you and the kids.” sounds like a deal, right?
chertoff is still in charge of that
misbegotten excuse of a federal agency? he’s ben quiet of late. I thought they left it at permaorange cause they forgot about their own system!
Probably right. I wonder if she’ll have a job if they lose.
Too busy rounding up people and sticking them in prisons.
Jane upstairs!
New Poll: McCain’s Biggest Mistake Is Picking Palin
She’s got some threads, for sure.
Yeah, but John Edwards or Bill Clinton or some Democrat got a haircut or something.
what about touched by an uncle?
Or the liberal elites turned the TV off several years ago, and never turned it back on…
plus i would add that team america: world police, the film by parker and stone, is one of the funniest movies ever made. i laughed my ass off at that flick.
so really, the political agenda of either the artist or the audience (especially in tv, if i can use the words “tv” and “artist” in the same sentence) are almost irrelevant to the end point, which is usually, are ya having fun?
I loved BASEketball by parker/stone. I could not breathe for laughing so hard near the end when the guy was dress up as a pineapple… And the montage of fake decline-and-fall-of-the-NFL clips, including the elaborate dances (including a post-touchdown “River Dance.”)
Just one nit to pick about an absolutely grotesque show … Battle 360 about the “real” Enterprise (the destroyer, not the starship)
The ship is known as the Big “E” and it’s an aircraft carrier, and the show was bought and paid for by Entreprise rent-a-car and it is in no way to be considered anything other than a godawful commercial.
aircraft carrier–ooops!–that’s why I always sucked at the game Battleship. I almost called it a boat when writing the post;I am just not a sea worthy siren!