I really think Jon Stewart is becoming one of the best political commentators out there. He has always done a good job in mixing humor and ridicule of the mainstream media, but lately he has been moving from a overall leftist perspecitve, to a more "common sense" one. While I may disagree with him on many of his perspectives, he does have some for which he should be commended.
For example, he did an excellent job on a recent episode using Charlton Heston who is arguably the most notable figure ever in the right-aligned NRA. Using Heston's comments on the uproar the NRA received when it held a convention near Columbine very soon after the infamous shooting, Stewart, or the Daily Show writing staff, threw the hypocritic comments straight back into the faces of those on the right who have attacked Islam and those who support the mosque near Ground Zero...
Anyway, check it out:
Jon Stewart is awesome. The end.
Agreed.
I was really happy with this video. I even forwarded it to my family members for them to watch.
Brilliant.
I heart John Stewart.
I agree. Absolutely brilliant.
Excellent article from the Washington Post
http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/panelists/james_standish/2010/08/the_great_ground_zero_mosque_hoax.html
Don't you love logic and common sense?
The reason I like this clip is because Jon Stewart didn't throw the NRA clip in the faces of conservatives and call them hypocrites. He points out that he was wrong back then, and says this is right and it's right regardless of whether you're on the "Left" or "Right."
granted, I should've mentioned how he admitted he was wrong, but that at the time the mainstream right was saying what their opponents are saying now, is either a total flip in philosophy (which wouldn't surprise me), or hypocrisy...
Maybe he didn't intend for the segment to play off that way, but what it implies to me, beyond the right/wrong message, is the hypocrisy of mainstream politics on the "left" and "right"
either way, Charlton Heston is a badass
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