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This is the third time we've mentioned South Park, so we apologize if you're getting tired of it. Given that we've watched the show fewer than a dozen times, we're surprised by the number of posts, too.

Anyway, here's a fine article about South Park and other comedians who are taking shots at the Left. It has a neo-conservative/libertarian slant to it and parts of it bother us, but overall, it's heartening. It even has the exact transcript of the South Park scene we summarized last Sunday. A few excerpts:

Some conservatives have excoriated South Park for its incredible vulgarity - the show opens with a mock warning saying it is so offensive it "should not be viewed by anyone." But those critics should pay closer attention to what South Park gleefully skewers. As the show's co-creator Matt Stone sums it up, "I hate conservatives, but I really [expletive] hate liberals."

Mr. Stone and his fellow thirtysomething colleague, Trey Parker, portray both abortion and sex-change operations in ways Robert Bork would endorse wholeheartedly - but do so in one of the most offensively vulgar half-hours in television history. Now that's subversive.

Conservatives do not escape the show's satirical sword - phony patriots and Mel Gibson have been among those slashed. But the deepest thrust of the program's politics is pretty clear. Mr. Parker and Mr. Stone have made their show the most hostile to liberalism in television history.

Someone else who speaks his mind, left-wing indoctrinators be damned, is Dennis Miller - Saturday Night Live alum, five-time Emmy winner, stand-up comic and host of CNBC's Dennis Miller. After 9-11, Mr. Miller surprisingly came out as a vocal Republican sympathizer - one of precious few in the entertainment industry.

[Dennis Miller on racial profiling]: "As for what many are calling racial profiling in the aftermath of Sept. 11, well, get ready to be [ticked] off, you ACLU-[expletive]-morons, we're dealing with a massive threat and limited manpower, so you want them to check everybody out equally? Sure, fine, OK, but let's at least compromise and put the Swedish dwarf a little further down the list than the Iraqi explosives expert carrying a Belgian passport with more eraser marks on it than Kid Rock's trig final."

[T]hanks in part to the emergence of new media (such as cable television) that have given writers and producers who don't fit the elite media mold a chance to offer their wares, the liberal monopoly has shattered. A post-liberal, or anti-liberal, counterculture is beginning to form.