Stupor PAC

I don't watch much commercial TV, hardly any, really. So when I planted myself in front of the tube last night to watch the final Colbert show I was assaulted by a string of insultingly idiotic political ads! All Republican, of course.

I blissfully rediscovered the mute button.

I think you would agree that it would be much better for the mental health of this country if political campaigns just took those millions of dollars designed for advertising and go door-to-door handing out hundred dollar bills and asking people to vote for their preferred candidate.

This is illegal, of course, but the alternative is to quietly accept the fact that people who consume televised media are literally being brainwashed by this stream of almost unending political noise. You may think it's harmless but if you say the word "laptop" in your commercial often enough, with ominously discordant music in the background, you can convince people that Hillary Clinton is sucking the blood of babies in the basement of a Chuck E. Cheese.

Too many victims of this doctrinal assault see this ballyhoo as just another ad, no different than one for pimple cream or boner pills. The more accurate description is "coercive persuasion" and it drills far deeper into their simian skulls than they realize.

8647.

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Last night Colbert had his band play licensed music, supposedly without approval, so that CBS would get sued later. Hilarious, but if he was serious he should have had the band play "Hotel California".

IYKYK.

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There were any number of multi-level insinuations and ironies in the ending of Colbert's Late Show.

Colbert had an Englishman, Paul McCartney, cut the power to an avenue of First Amendment expression as a means of protest against a mad "king" who wants to helm a new theocracy at a time in which this country is celebrating 250 years as a Democracy.

Icing one the cake: The final shot in which Colbert's dog is considering pissing on the remains of CBS' folly, and his master essentially telling the animal "It's not worth your time."

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Long before comedian Dennis Miller morphed into a right-wing turd he had a talk show that, well, wasn't connecting with its audience, so it was canned. Everyone was glad that it was ending, including Miller, who found that headlining a talk show was not exactly his forte'.

The one memorable thing about his show was its last episode.

As it neared its end a searchlight from above played around the stage, the sound of a helicopter grew louder with each second and a strong wind was playing havoc with anything not nailed down. Suddenly a rope ladder uncoiled from above, which Miller grabbed and frantically climbed until he was out of camera. The helicopter sounds faded as the credits rolled.

Miller had escaped his prison.

Best ending ever.

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Technical note: I altered the text in the first panel to make the logic of this cartoon work better. The alien formerly asked "Why do your politicians waste so much money on brainwashing?"

- Lefty