After watching The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on Wednesday night, I enjoyed his statement on how the media is like a bunch of children. You can watch the clip below.
Click "read more" to view a cartoon I created based on Stewart's remarks.
As everyone races to catch foot in mouth syndrome over the tragic Giffords shooting, Jon Stewart offers a dose of sanity. The rush to tack on motivations and ideologies to a clearly mentally ill man has been particularly disgusting, well done mainstream media.
"It would really be nice if the ramblings of crazy people didn't in any way resemble how we talk to each other on TV." -- Jon Stewart
Yep, the deal which has been worked out appears to really be the worst of both worlds for the national debt: lower taxes without lower spending and higher spending without higher taxes. The bill is a "$900 billion proposal to extend tax cuts and unemployment insurance." I certainly don't want higher taxes, but uh...does anyone in DC realize that getting less and spending more will not make the debt smaller?
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...
It's nice to see Stewart both expecting Napolitano to give commentary and acknowledging his differences from the standard conservative talking points. Maybe we're getting somewhere...
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