jon stewart

Catch it while you can (quicktime video)! The rerun is tonight (Fri) whenever your local cable runs Comedy Central. The man is inteligent, thoughtful, spontaneous, and actually has a sense of humor. For a Senator, that's not bad. (And he did it in the middle of the night, which gives him at least three brownie points gold stars, with an extra one for mentioning his daughter.) This guy is a mench. We should only hope we could have him as a prez. He certainly looks better, and sounds more sane, than Prez Doofus.

Well, you knew it wouldn't be Mike Wallace and after Ed Bradley's grim espresso strength story on Emmitt Till and the crackerheads who killed him, seeing Jon's smiling face actually looked good. He started strong with "Dick Cheney becomes the Hulk" when he's not in front of loyal people nodding out as he insists everyone's going to die whether he is or is not in charge.

Kerry can beat Nixon and the troops will be home in time for all in the family, which could have been a typo but wasn't. Teddy is Palm Beach all the way with no pants, "Profiles That Might Have Been Courage" a nod to the elder broski who took one as a mistake, or so we're told by dying torpedos.

"We travel in fake ethics" a so-called masquerade as parody of the absurd. He's right, you know - "A group of folks is what you run into at the Olive Garden." The Real Deal sez there's no

See the full video of the Crossfire Interview here. Have never, ever seen anything quite like it. It was totally raw and sincere (Stewart was sincere-in-fact, while the Crossfire monkeys were sincere-in-their-insincerity). Not sure that Stewart won't get martyred through the whole thing, but at this point WTF...

The corporate media is so much worse than the Bush administration...and so many people have not one inkling of the depths of how bad it is...knowing all of this stuff makes me feel like I'm in some Twilight Zone episode in which I'm given advance knowledge of some avertable catastrophe, but have been damned with the inability to speak or write (the floating head with no mouth episode, ya know)

More Jon Stewart: Original PP John Stewart article with link to transcript at this link. Our "credibility" article with a link to the full video here. Post-Crossfire spin at this link. And he broke the news of Dubya proclaiming that "we will not have an all-volunteer army" at this link.A comment on Jon's 60 Minutes interview at this link

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