I watch The Daily Show and The Colbert Report religiously, and to me they comprise a perfect hour of television that helps make the shit we’re forcefed in this world everyday a little easier to swallow. I know some people who watch only The Daily Show, not caring for Colbert’s abrasive style. I know others who watch only Colbert, feeling it’s just plain funnier than The Daily Show.
I will admit that on most nights, the per minute laugh-out-loud ratio is higher on The Colbert Report than The Daily Show, but here’s why the latter is so vital to my survival. There is simply no one else who highlights the idiocy, hypocrisy and insanity of politics and media more perfectly than Jon Stewart. Aside from the fact that, with the possible exception of The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, Stewart and his writing staff present more truth than any other TV news program out there, Stewart’s delivery is second to none. He expresses my frustration and exasperation more eloquently and humorously than I could ever do myself, and I sleep a little better at night knowing that he’s there, calling out the politically powerful on their never-ending bullshit…even if his voice is lost in the din and doesn’t change anything.
Last week saw our hero of the people on a roll, as he expertly covered the inanity and failings of 24 hour news (CNN specifically)…
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…hypocritical, pro-rape Republicans…
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…the news media’s incessant attempts to simultaneously confuse and scare the shit out of Americans…
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…and the amazing ability of so many politicians to talk so much yet say so little (you’ll have to skip ahead a bit to the Baucus bill/Olympia Snowe segment).
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Alas, Jon is on vacation this week, so I’m sleeping a little less soundly and breathing a little less easily. I especially wish he were on the air so I could potentially see him tear into this douchebag. Seriously? Senator Alexander is suggesting that Obama is moving toward a Nixon-like enemies list? The examples he cited don’t even make sense in that context. Moreover, after eight years of the George W. Bush administration – with its blowhard “if you’re not with us you’re against us” rhetoric, politically motivated U.S. attorney firings and alleged refusal to award a presidential medal of freedom to Ted Kennedy because he was a liberal – a Republican can actually say with a straight face that Obama seems to be moving in an “enemies list” direction? Please come back quickly, Jon. I need your sharp wit to combat offenses like this one.
While we wait for the return of the king, I encourage you to watch the embedded clips. They’re funny cause they’re true. I love ya Jon, and I’m not afraid to say it. Keep fuckin’ that chicken.
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