[pissant]

Is a light bulb flickering in Jon Stewart's thick skull finally?

[marty60]

Well even an alcholic sobers up sometime.

[dead]

What I argue is that the Bush administration fell hostage to the superpower myth, believing that because we're the most powerful nation on earth, we were all-powerful, could bend the world to our will and not have to worry about the rest of the world.

So her book is built on the premise that Bush believes that our country is all-powerful.

An idiotic initial assumption leads inevitably to a pointless and idiotic conclusion.

[Cowboy Bob]

Its funny. Just the other day I was wondering what happened to Jon Stewart. Before the election, he was everywhere. Now he's all but forgotten.

Jon Steward has been host of the Daily Show since before the 2000 election, but last fall you'd think he was a fresh, newly discovered talent.

I guess we won't hear much of him again until 2008.

[ClearCase_guy]

we're the most powerful nation on earth, we were all-powerful, could bend the world to our will and not have to worry about the rest of the world.

What a bozo. Free elections means that people can decide for themselves. None of this "bend the world to our will" garbage.

Afghanistan, Iraq, Egypt, Lebanon ... the Left really hates to see freedom move forward. They really think Bush is bad for helping it progress.

[OldFriend]

The entire online article is well worth the read.

[dead]

Taranto is right. Stewart did unwittingly manage to mug her in that interview. He forced her to discuss all the reasons history has already proved her just-released book to be worthless.

"Stuck in the back in the discount rack like another can of beans."

[Drew68]

Is a light bulb flickering in Jon Stewart's thick skull finally?

Stewart is an admitted liberal democrat who will begrudgingly concede that amazing world events are taking place under the Bush administration. I give him props for his candor.

It was interesting to watch Soderberg squirm as Stewart alluded to the fact that current events in the Middle East pretty much demolished the premise of her book.

I like Jon Stewart. He is an honest liberal. I watch The Daily Show every morning before work and rarely does a half hour pass where I am not in stitches during at least one joke.

[McGavin999]

What the Arab world is starting to understand is that America is not a nation of lucky rich people, they are finally starting to figure out is that we are human beings, just like them, who work DARNED HARD for what we have. Believe it or not that's a shock to them.

They interviewed one of the Iraqis who came over to have his hand replaced and he told the interviewer that he has never seen such hard working people, and people who are so happy working!

[cyncooper]

MSNBC uses Soderburg as one of their experts on a variety of topics and I have noted before her propensity to undermine the Bush administration (no surprise, as I knew her background).

Good for Stewart to even question his presumptions and to be aware of what is going on in Lebanon.

Soderburg dismissed it as not related to Iraq and pointedly ignores the Inaugural Speech (speaking of which, anyone heard from Peggy Noonan lately about her "Bush over-reached" critique?).

[Congressman Billybob]

Glad I read this. Jon Stewart was subtle, but he nailed this lady. And he got her on air hoping for failure and death for America, just like Ellen Ratner on Fox, "hoping" that enough Americans would die, that President Bush would be defeated.

Yes, I think Jon Stewart "gets it." He may be late to the party, but he has arrived.

Congressman Billybob

Latest column, "By Dawn's Early Light"

[COBOL2Java]

During the discussion of democratic yearnings breaking out in the Mid East, there's this telling bit:

Soderberg: There's always hope that this might not work.

Watch out, Nancy, your slip is showing...

[cyncooper]

Soderberg: Well, there's still Iran and North Korea, don't forget. There's hope for the rest of us.

...

Soderberg: There's always hope that this might not work.

Wow.

Even considering it was a comedy talk show, I can't imagine joking that there's "hope" this won't work. I know the dems really feel that way, but to actually say it. Sloppy, Nancy. Very sloppy. But very good to have it on the record.

[RightResponse]

Democrats are the masters of hindsight, because they have their heads up their asses.

[trubluolyguy]

Did I read this wrong or is this idiot woman actually rooting for bad things to happen, simply to embarrass the Bush administration?

[KC_Conspirator]

Sounds like Soderberg's book is pure ignorance, 9-10 Klinton-era stupidity that directly led to the attack on 9-11.

[Nicholas Conradin]

I watch The Daily Show quite often. The opening material is strictly scripted liberal cant. Stewart relies on a set of about a dozen practiced facial expression/contortions to elicit uproaring laughter from a sympathetic studio audience.

The interview segment of the show can sometimes be very revealing, though. In this case, Stewart rose above doctrinaire Bush-hating and his guest was definitely caught off-guard.

[rave123]

Don't fall for it.
The guy is still a liberal dork. He has admitted on a couple of other shows that maybe Bush had the right idea(after the Iraq elections) but he's still not willing to give in.
The show has some funny highlights but most of his show is extremely anti-Bush administration.

[LZ_Bayonet]

Soderberg: "There's always hope that this might not work."<\i>

Osama could not have said it better! Not having the opportunity to edit does have a tendency to bring out the truth.

[verity]

"Soderberg: Well, I think, you know, as a Democrat, you don't want anything nice to happen to the Republicans, and you don't want them to have progress."

Another example of obstructionism.

[GraniteStateConservative]

Soderberg: There's always hope that [Bush's social, political, and economic reform agenda in the region] might not work.

Enough said. All you need to know about the left.