Adam's Ideas

I saw this poster downtown today and I absolutely love it!

Despite the fact that Colbert is on the Comedy Channel, conservative Colbert viewers don’t realize that the show is comedy. WIthout a doubt the show is satire, and is similar comedy to that of The Daily Show (which, isn’t a real news show). Oh The Irony Satire:

This study investigated biased message processing of political satire in The Colbert Report and the influence of political ideology on perceptions of Stephen Colbert. Results indicate that political ideology influences biased processing of ambiguous political messages and source in late-night comedy. Using data from an experiment (N = 332), we found that individual-level political ideology significantly predicted perceptions of Colbert’s political ideology. Additionally, there was no significant difference between the groups in thinking Colbert was funny, but conservatives were more likely to report that Colbert only pretends to be joking and genuinely meant what he said while liberals were more likely to report that Colbert used satire and was not serious when offering political statements. Conservatism also significantly predicted perceptions that Colbert disliked liberalism. Finally, a post hoc analysis revealed that perceptions of Colbert’s political opinions fully mediated the relationship between political ideology and individual-level opinion.

Thanks Huffy!

There’s a party in Sweden’s pants and you’re invited!

All you bike haters out there can suck a tank of gas! Wait you, you do if you drive a car. Using this handy bicycle MPG calculator I discovered that I get 638 MPG! What do you get?

The Top Gear dudes managed to get a car to do 84 MPG, for $7000 and go 0-60 in 7 seconds. Perhaps they should lend a helping hand to GM and Chrysler.