I think the blatancy is part of the ploy. The media trusts in their ability to sell so much that they have moved up a phase to selling obvious shit as a form of demoralization. The comedian in question may just be a washed up nobody who's long stopped trying very hard, but the producers and writers are rolling with that, I think.
Less cynically, this is a knock-on effect of 2008 - present politics: mask fully dropped. Comedy used to be funny because the writers and comedians used to pretend to be for everybody. That pretense tempered their blithering idiocy to the point it was actually a consumable product. It also, as you point out, made their ever-present propaganda actually somewhat effective since it was designed to convince rather than berate.
Can he not even make his blatant propaganda funny though, so people don't realize it's propaganda?
That's what he and Jon Stewart used to do; they were masters at it. This is just sad.
There's no need for the mask any more. You masters know you won't do shit.
It's simpler than that. People who disagree with what he says don't watch anymore and he doesn't care because he has fuck you money.
He's just saying fuck you to the proles instead of the elites.
I think the blatancy is part of the ploy. The media trusts in their ability to sell so much that they have moved up a phase to selling obvious shit as a form of demoralization. The comedian in question may just be a washed up nobody who's long stopped trying very hard, but the producers and writers are rolling with that, I think.
Less cynically, this is a knock-on effect of 2008 - present politics: mask fully dropped. Comedy used to be funny because the writers and comedians used to pretend to be for everybody. That pretense tempered their blithering idiocy to the point it was actually a consumable product. It also, as you point out, made their ever-present propaganda actually somewhat effective since it was designed to convince rather than berate.
Their writers were masters at it.
Colbert is a retard.
Ah, yep, “I used to fall for it”; damn I hate being right.