So I’m listening to the New Penn Jillette Podcast (which hopefully will be streamed on the Adam Carolla App), and he was talking about this story
On Thursday’s edition, Tommy Smothers got very upset with Penn Jillette when Jillette uttered the name ‘The Smothers Brothers Show’ in the same sentence with ‘The Glenn Beck Show.’ “When you say ‘Glenn Beck’ and ‘The Smother Brothers’ I’m really offended,” Smothers said. “Because we never said things that were stupid and prejudicial and …”
Clearly, this was a sore spot for the very liberal Smothers, who’s always played it for laughs and rarely has shown his serious side. He just couldn’t understand why Jillette — whom he admired — would fraternize with the clearly very conservative Beck.
“You’re so intelligent and you follow this stuff and you go on there and you sit with Glenn Beck and you agree with that bull****. What the f**k happened to you on the way? Drugs?”
“I’m pissed off at you,” Smothers summed up.
Did that really happen? So Jillett, who’s a hardcore Libertarian and Atheist went on the Beck show to lend another view to an audience that may not have heard it before…and Smothers, who’s a Moonbat was pissed at him?
Seems that “Progressive” Reasoned Discourse exists even in real life!
Is it a wonder why almost all “Progressives” moderate their comments? You can’t even acknowledge that another side even exists…any wonder why?
Smothers has the perfect name for a progressive-that’s what they like to do to dissent.
The sad thing is that the same joke that got their show canceled is true today:
Punch line:
“So who’s running the country?”
“The morons…”
I can’t find a clean copy of it, but the second half of this video is that joke:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDmA7x42gxw
(Saw this on their show as a little kid way back when. A looooong time ago. I LOLed then – I shake my head in despair for our Republic now.)