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		<title>PajamasTV, For People Who Find &#8216;Hannity&#8217; Too Intellectually Taxing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:54:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Weigel</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alexis de Tocqueville]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Klavan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Remember when Samuel &#8220;Joe the Plumber&#8221; Wurzelbacher <a href="http://washingtonindependent.com/29165/joe-the-whiner">reported on the stimulus package</a> for the semi-obscure Web video site PajamasTV and was denied access to parts of the Capitol? He wasn&#8217;t happy about that:</p>
<blockquote><p>Unfortunately I was explained to that (sic) right now PJTV.com is considered more opinionated than hard</p></blockquote><p> <a href="http://washingtonindependent.com/45529/pajamas-tv-for-people-who-find-hannity-too-intellectually-taxing" class="read_more">More...</a></p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Remember when Samuel &#8220;Joe the Plumber&#8221; Wurzelbacher <a href="http://washingtonindependent.com/29165/joe-the-whiner">reported on the stimulus package</a> for the semi-obscure Web video site PajamasTV and was denied access to parts of the Capitol? He wasn&#8217;t happy about that:</p>
<blockquote><p>Unfortunately I was explained to that (sic) right now PJTV.com is considered more opinionated than hard news. And that kind of put me off.</p></blockquote>
<p>PajamasTV still exists, and it&#8217;s running the <a href="http://www.pjtv.com/video/Klavan_on_culture/___Why_Are_Conservatives_So_Mean%3F/1949/;jsessionid=abcB--oa-aeMq9fC8xNgs">third installment of a series</a> called &#8220;Klavan on the Culture,&#8221; in which mystery author Andrew Klavan stalks around a green screen and mutters imitation-witty things about liberalism.</p>
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<p>This episode, ostensibly directed at college graduates, is perhaps the most confusing. Klavan&#8217;s audience consists of in-the-tank conservatives, not college students, so he lays on the mockery:</p>
<blockquote><p>Well, college grads, the answers lie in a book you&#8217;ve never read, called &#8220;Democracy in America,&#8221; by Alexis de Tocqueville. To put this in terms you can understand, Alexis de Tocqueville was some French guy who lived way back in history days, before Lara Croft&#8217;s breasts jiggled when you jumped her up and down in &#8220;Tomb Raider.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Back before those damned kids kicked their foot-ball onto Klavan&#8217;s lawn! Seriously, there are high schools that teach Tocqueville, and few high school students draw Klavan&#8217;s lesson that Tocqueville was afraid of a future welfare state. Klavan splashes together a clip from President Obama&#8217;s inaugural address with a clip from the film &#8220;300,&#8221; in which the giant, well-oiled Emperor Xerxes offers a treasonous Spartan prostitutes and money if he joins up with the Persians.</p>
<blockquote><p>OK, one of those was the big, creepy Persian guy from &#8220;300.&#8221; But it&#8217;s kind of hard to tell them apart. And no, not just because both have dark skin and are narcissistic metrosexuals. It&#8217;s because they&#8217;re both offering the same tyranny of animal pleasures, complete safety, and dehumanizing loss of free will, that Tocqueville predicted so long ago.</p></blockquote>
<p>It&#8217;s really hard to understand why PJTV is considered more opinionated than hard news.</p>
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