Not watching The Daily Show nearly as much
Posted on July 18th, 2008
I find I’m not watching The Daily Show nearly as much as I used to, I think because Bush has dropped out of the scene so much that I don’t need the emotional release Jon Stewart was providing for me.
I bet I wouldn’t be as fanatically devoted to The West Wing now if it were still on.
The Bush Departure: Taking the comedy, leaving the tragedy.
“The Bush Departure: Taking the comedy, leaving the tragedy.”
So sadly true. He doesn’t even have to feel responsible for the Iraq war’s outcome, since he won’t be in office when it ends. It may end so long from now that it won’t even make it into his “autobiography,” or whatever self-serving document, memoir, reminiscence, etc, he and his ghostwriters come up with.
On the other hand, there are precedents in the world that provide some hope that Bush, Cheney and Company will eventually feel responsible for the Iraq war’s beginning and middle. It will take at least a couple of decades, but eventually, the truth will out, and there is no statute of limitations on crimes against humanity.
And on the other, other hand, commentators are saying that an Obama presidency will be the comic writers’ worst nightmare. Imagine – a presidential president for a change. A man whose name isn’t automatically a punchline.
Are you suggesting that the Daily Show’s function has been, in part, to use ridicule and satire to make it next to impossible for intelligent people like yourself, to believe the administration was competent enough to have had NORAD stand down on Sept 11, 2001 deliberately? Are you suggesting that the administration set up a band of 19 Arab hijackers to take the blame as a pretext to launch wars of aggression and that late night comics like Stewart are part of the cover up?
We agree with you.
If John Stewart were ever to aim his comic arrows at the voodoo science the public is forced to accept in the official account of the Presidents Commission on 9/11, he would disappear from television faster than Rosie O’Donnell.
As a comedy writer with experience in the business you must have noticed the Daily Show rarely satirizes what Bill Moyers describes as the secret government and Gore Vidal calls the national security state. Why is that do you think.
Why hasn’t John Stewart revealed that Building 7 committed suicide out of sympathy for the other two buildings?
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