MarsAtlas said:
No. What I'm saying it that the "equal opportunity offender" line is some class-A doublespeak for the capitalistic comedian. Its having your cake and eating it too. They want to apologize for anybody who was offended and wants them to keep watching the show without looking like they caved in on any given issue and lose face for going back on what they said because it upset somebody. That is dishonesty, and furthermore they think that we'll believe it. Its really not hard to understand a distaste for being lied to.
Pardon my french but that's just cynical bullshit. "Equal opportunity offender" means "if you're offended you're not special, next week it'll be someone else and someone else the week after that."
I personally don't tell rape jokes, because I don't think I'm funny enough to make them work. That doesn't mean I'm against the telling of rape jokes though, I still believe that when it comes to comedy, nothing is off limits. In the same way just because they haven't made fun of Sandy Hook doesn't mean make them hypocrites or dishonest.
You're imagining an apology (although a false one) where there isn't one, you're imagining a concern for their audience straying where there isn't one. You are pushing false motivations onto a very simple concept that almost every comedian agrees with.
FriedRicer said:
All I got was:
1.SP say they target everyone.
2.They don't.
3.They only say that so we don't call them bias.
4.They do this to avoid backlash.
5.This is artistic cowardice.(C/D?)
It's not true though is it. They say that nothing is off limits, not that they target everyone. To target everyone would require them to put out thousands of episodes a day until the end of time. Tis a silly expectation and one they have never claimed to meet.
The only way you could call them artistic cowards is if you know there are subjects they wont touch because they personally think they are sacred, which you don't, so you can't.
Hell I even remember reading in an interview them saying something along the lines of "we hate Conservatives, but we REALLY hate Democrats." That doesn't seem like the kind of thing a person who doesn't want to be called biased would say.