I suppose that could be. If Bill Maher were doing it, I would think it’s pure rage about something, disguised by a devlish grin and calculated vitriol.
My brother had a Mao shirt on and accused the opponent of Obama as a terrorist, torturer or something extreme like that. I wasn’t sure if I should laugh or point it out. That’s education in universities these days for ya. For people like P.T. Myers to say he uses reason is like N. Korea calling itself a Democratic People’s Republic. Springer pretends to be reasonable, though he at least surrounds himself with camp, as opposed to pseudo-intellectuals in atheist-factories AKA most universities.