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Saturday, October 16, 2004

Speaking truth to power. Minor power, but still power

Jon Stewart was on CNN's Crossfire yesterday. Now, I wouldn't have known about this, because I don't seem to watch anything other than home improvement shows and college football (and Presidential debates, and The Daily Show, and that's it) on TV. But my brother was kind enough to post audio and video files of the appearance. It was brutal. Stewart horsewhipped Tucker Carlson and Paul Begala on their own show and made them like it. Well, maybe they didn't like it. I didn't notice them laughing along with the audience. Carlson in particular seemed offended. But I thought it was funny, and so did the live audience, and it had the added benefit of publicly eviscerating Carlson and Begala in an incredibly direct way.

The Fool played a time-honored role in history, being the only person who could speak unvarnished truth to the King, using humor to make his point. Jon Stewart is a Fool of the highest order.

Posted at 2:13 AM

Comments

Actually, I believe that he represents the Second Coming, i.e., a Jew with chutzpah for the greater good.

Posted by Mamacita at 8:33 AM, October 17, 2004 [Link]

Well, my bandwidth Usage peaked up to 2 Gig for the month. That's the most my little insignificant site has ever seen. I guess that this wasn't from you and mom downloading the video 60 times. Luckily I have 28 Gig more to go through the end of the month.

Posted by lilbro at 7:30 PM, October 19, 2004 [Link]

Pleased to be able to do my part.

Posted by ralph at 12:15 AM, October 20, 2004 [Link]

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Maybe then I would get cable, posted on Flashes of Panic

"I’ve never watched enough TV to be a Jon Stewart fan. Maybe now I should be."

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misc, posted on snapping links

"bbs documentary, complexspiral background, Jon Stewart on Crossfire"

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