Reply #42: Nepotism

[Alcibiades]

Also serves to fuel the incompetence of the right, in comedy as in everything else. TDS has funny material because it is free to hire the best writers in the business. The entire right-wing media universe, however, is not based on talent but on nepotism. It has been seen how staffing at FEMA, for Iraq Reconstruction, for the White House has been based on a network of drinking buddies, frat brothers and co-religionists. Remarkably, mush of business, especially right-wing business, operates the same way. Merit need not apply--what matters is who you know. I would be shocked to find that Fox is not staffing its show with a legion of frat boys, Bob Jones alums, Ivy Leaguers, former congressional interns & the children of rightwingers.

Their fall will also be hastened by the fact that they fail to understand what hard work it is to be funny, day in day out. Like most elites, they imagine that they could do useful work, but will be shocked to find that connections fail to make their product any better. (I am using elite here in its correct sense, of course, not the one manufactured by the right).