Having a hard time really knowing who to trust in politics anymore

[abaris]

I wouldn't rely solely on it, but my point was that comedy shows like that actually do a better job at reporting facts than the major news networks.

They might take a liberal viewpoint on the facts, but it's like Jon Stewart said.  "Reality has a liberal bias."

It's not so much the liberal bias. I can laugh and appreciate a lot of things Maher brings into his show. But on the other hand he's also a knife between his teeth anti theist. And that's not a route I'm willing to take, even in comedy.

My point is, most have an agenda. The difference between Maher and - to take the other, not comedy related extreme - Breitbart, is one very important fact. Maher still uses news sources to base his interpretation on them. He's selective of course, but the base is still news. Breitbart and cronies mainly quote other bloggers on the right end of the spectrum and sell the opinion of a single blogger as fact. It's glaringly obvious when they do some piece on my extended neighbourhood, since it's easy to find out where there information originated - which in most cases, as I said - is a single blog. And it's also pretty easy to find out what's really behind the supposed incident. If it was important enough to interest mainstream it was in our media anyway. In that case it's always blown out of proportion - often times already by the original blogger or later on by the boys of Breitbart.