Didn't read the reviews..
http://www.prospect....jon_stewart_fails
There's something just a bit depression about having to hope that a comedian on a comedy show (on a comedy network) - even a bright, politically attuned, quick-on-his-feet comedian - is going to pick up the slack following nine years of the MSM's failure to competently address the same issues.
To Stewart's credit, he has managed to hold some famous feet to the fire following similar MSM failures, and he's nobody's monkey. ( http://politicalhumo...wartcrossfire.htm )
Posted by: Aaron | January 12, 2010 2:29 PM
Stewart can't become Glenn Greenwald-for-a-Day. He adequately responded with the bemused body language appropriate to the craven spin of this empty suit. Which is what I meant re the pseudo-science of all such bloviations [just cite YAN 'precedent candidate' whenever an idiotic argument has been rebutted.] There is no end.. to such excursion ... except the judge pronouncing an end, ex cathedra.
Hey, Scalia smiles a lot too, while deconstructing everything south of the Golden Rule;
Yoo doesn't smile actually -- it's a smarl (or a snile), oft seen on actual inmates in mental confinement. Have encountered a few Yoos, in the day.. deem them akin to a mad dog; there's no cure for this form of rabies -- just euthanasia. And that's OK: such a one is orthogonal to any scale of tolerance one might attempt to define. They are scientifically-Evil by definition (no religious versions need apply -- they will be as inane as Yoo himself is, when employing law-speak.)
Can only hope that UC acquires some nads and fails to renew his contract; if they let the sucker attain tenure, Murica is more fucked than I imagine. And I think it's pretty-FUCKED in myriad ways. It's about time for that revolution the FFs (founding..) spoke of -- Tom Paine and Jefferson IIRC -- as being 'a good thing, periodically'. Such as we are in 2010, our continued existence is ~ indefensible. We excel nowadays only in the home-growing of audiences for demagogues. And creation of vacuous, predictable simple-minded entertainments, designed only as fillers in between more ads.
(The drug-use rate alone demonstrates the extremes to which people will go, to escape the zeitgeist and the deadly daily drone of puerile nonsense which fills the airwaves, offices and ads.) That Yoo is not already in jail.. says not quite All, but enough.
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