TheBoost said:

xhonzi said:

TheBoost said:

But if you're talking a character who is a yelling, angry, hate-spewing talk radio guy, there aren't a lot of liberal types in that genre.

I guess that's my point. It's almost as if the liberal showrunners are nodding to the (presumed?) liberal audience and saying, "Man have you had enough of how wrong all of those idiot right wing radio hosts are? Amiright, folks?!?!" For a minute, it had me thinking, "Yeah, those stupid conservatives" until I realized I WAS a conservative.

But if the character is a big blowhard screaming fearmongering radio guy brewing irrational hatred, is it somehow the writers fault that is automatically assumed to be a conservative?

You saw the episode, right? He was described, in words, as being right winged. And I don't think he screamed, though he might have been a blowhard, and I suppose you could call him fearmongering... But wait, if I said "big blowhard screaming fearmongering senator guy brewing irrational hatred" or "big blowhard screaming fearmongering TV guy brewing irrational hatred" or "big blowhard screaming fearmongering newspaper guy brewing irrational hatred", would anything about their profession indicate their political preference? I mean, talk radio is sort of the domain of the right wing pundit, regardless of how much vitriol is in play.

And I have to imagine that a disproportionally large fanbase for superhero stuff is conservatives, due to the traditional values represented therein.

What traditional values exactly?

The clear distinction between right and wrong, foremost. Objective morality. The identification of good guys and bad guys. However, a lot of modern comics/superheroes are less like this. One of the things I didn't like about Spider-Man 2 was that Dr. Octopus was no longer "bad" he was just the victim of his AI controlled arms taking over his brain. Because all criminals are just victims, right? None of them are actually bad people.