Posted on 03/03/2006 4:11:44 AM PST by harpu
With President Bush away . . . the news from Washington this week is close to zero. [Then] I discovered Jon Stewart seated across the table from Larry King. Mr. Stewart is the host of "The Daily Show," Comedy Central's satirical TV news program. This looked like a wave worth waiting for, and it was. The subject was Washington.
Larry King suggested to Jon Stewart that the current low ebb of the Democrats and Republicans was good for Mr. Stewart's business.
King: So, in a sense you're happy over this. Stewart: No.
King: This gives you fodder.
Mr. Stewart replied that if government "began to solve problems in a rational way rather than just a way that involved political dividends, we would be the happiest people in the world to turn our attention to idiots like, you know, media people, no offense."
King: So, you don't want it to be bad? Stewart: Did you really just ask me if I want it to be bad?
King: Yes because you--
Stewart: What are you--I have kids. What do you think? I want things to corrode to the point where we're all living in huts?
King: You don't want Medicare to fail?
Stewart: Are you insane?
Insane? Spend too much time close to politicians nowadays and suddenly that's a good question.
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Instead every issue that emerges becomes an illegitimate extension of the original "lie"--the NSA wiretaps, the Guantanamo detentions, Abu Ghraib, terrorist interrogation techniques, the Plame affair. This is a dangerous game. Raised to this level, policy becomes a super-heated moral Armageddon that makes mere politics impossible to manage. One then might ask: Do you want this government to fail? To which a tragicomic response is appropriate: Are you insane?
(Excerpt) Read more at opinionjournal.com ...
Yes a very good article indeed.
"Do you want this government to fail"?
The answer to that is that of course that the MSM and Democrats want this govt to fail and will tell any lie and manipulate facts to achieve it. It's actually a naive question. And yes, they are insane.
Is Stewie moving to the right? Or center?
adding a ping
I think Stewie just gets off on being confrontational.
No, he just doesn't want to admit it.
smirk,
act "smarter" by being flip with patriotism
kinda like strong men to defend them, but kinda put them down as "cavemen"
wouldn't know which end of a gun to shoot but would cry like little girls if somebody broke in their house..
.. and would blame "society" for criminals and "guns" for the death of a relative....
he was funny till 9-11...then I saw him tear up as he described his feelings... but after he belittles Bush, Conservatives and the "so called" war on terror....
I'm glad the little pussy lives in a nice big Blue State Target area.... say hi to allah for me John. ....oh yeah, and remember, "It's Bush's Fault"
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