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Salon has more commentary here: http://tinyurl.com/4wprq
They note that people will complain that he wasn't funny. He was funny. But he was also telling the truth. Really good humor makes you uncomfortable. This was really good humor. The best comedy always has a strong element of the truth. Geek culture has a term for it, "Ha, ha, only serious." (http://tinyurl.com/6sgxe) While watching the video I was struck by what a stunning example of ha, ha only serious this was.
Jon has a weird position. He can attack other people for being stupid, contradictory, or cowardly. But he himself is immune. After all, how can you attack someone on Comedy Central? It's just comedy.
Now I feel stupid. It's an old and important technique. Jon Stewart is the modern court jester. That's why he is important. We need court jesters. The court jester is essentially a king's most trusted advisor, the one advisor brave enough to tell the king that he is a fool.
It's late, I should shut my pie hole.
I'm glad that Jon said what he said.
There is a deep and seething anger in the populace. They are getting tired of the lies.
In continued thinking about it. I wonder how a civil war actually starts without it beginning via the military. Is that even a possible thing?
More copies of the Crossfire segment. I haven't tested any of these myself...
Media Matters has it in Windows Media Player format and may have it in MPEG4: http://mediamatters.org/items/200410160003
Some possible BitTorrents:
Unknown format: http://66.90.75.92/suprnova//torrents/2800/Crossfire-20041015-John_Stewart-avi.torrent
Window Media Player Torrents http://bitflood.org:8080/?file=791b2f5d95a54d1381b85f271b51f71e73964185
Uh, Alan?
"Wednesday, August 19, 15"
It's not Wednesday, nor August, nor the 19th, nor the year 15.
Uh, Alan?
"Wednesday, August 19, 15"
It's not Wednesday, nor August, nor the 19th, nor the year 15.
Incidently, if you view someone's webpage from their name links after posting a comment, when you hit 'back' you get the option to post again. Unfortunately, it's the sort of option whose proper answer is usually "yes" but is in this case "no".
Not sure whether it's your problem or not (though you could certainly fix it), but that's why I get a duplicate post.
Also, I'm lamely attempting to explain why I've got a lame double-post on your website, and only making it more lame thereby.
*post*
Jon and his writers continue to try to save America. Last night's bit with Ed Helms screaming "THIS IS ALL A SHAM!" during the post-debate spinfest was awesome.
Jon also said on Monday "I didn't mean to imply that only Tucker Carlson was a dick, they're all dicks over there." (I'm paraphrasing)
*sigh* I'll try to beat the dates into submission.
I don't have any good ideas for the repost issue. The only obvious solution is the "Your post has been accepted. Click here to return to the discussion." That's dumb.
And Ed Helms staggering into what appeared to be a live broadcast and shouting "It's all a sham!" will definately be a Daily Show moment for the ages.
Yeah. You could try simply disallowing duplicate posts. Most mistakes (either caused as I indicated, or by explicit reloads, or what have you, could be caught that way.