No Love For South Park
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I haven’t read a word in any of my daily blogs today about South Park, which is weird. Not too long ago, every conservative blogger in the world was constantly harping about the “creeping Sharia watch.” (Liberal bloggers ignored the whole thing.) Anything even remotely related to a Muslim forcing prehistoric Islamic laws on the rest of us was major, major news. So last night South Park, the only show I’ve seen that even comes close to touching this subject, runs the first of a two-part parody about the Cartoon Jihad and nothing? Nothing? Nobody wondering if there’ll be a fatwa against Matt and Trey? No requests for people to write in support of Viacom or Comedy Central? Is there suddenly some kind of vast right-wing conspiracy against South Park? Or is this yet another example of the media and blogosphere picking the news it wants us to hear?
UPDATE (3:30 PM): Oh, now that I’ve drawn attention to it, Andrew Sullivan jumps on the bandwagon and says a couple of words: South Park Last Night. Let the record show that he did not post until 2:55:39 PM, almost 17 hours after the episode began, and 43 minutes after I posted. Sheesh, that’s even worse than Bush talking about the levies the day after Katrina! Who’s running this blogosphere anyway??
UPDATE (3:40 PM): Blogspot ate my original post!! Curse you Blogspot! Well, you’ll just have to take my word for the fact that I originally posted this at 2:12 PM. I swear, if it weren’t for the free insertion into Google searches, I’d dropkick Blogspot in 2 seconds.
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