Why Jon Stewart Usually Resonates
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On Fridays I often sit down and watch the week’s episodes of The Daily Show on the Comedy Central web site, which is a god-awfully painful experience, but that’s another topic. (Okay, it’s because of the Internet commercials you have to watch over and over and over again, time after time, same one every time, multiple times in a row, kind of like that “apply it directly to your forehead” commercial except with 15-second commercials instead of a 1-second sound bite.) So tonight I’m catching up on what Stewart had to say about the shutdown, and I’m finding out as I type this that he said a lot of the same things that I wrote this past week, and he was even the origin of that football analogy I heard! Maybe this explains why I’ve liked Jon Stewart since I first saw him on MTV back in the dark ages. I guess when you look at an issue without layers and layers of self-delusional partisan rhetoric in the way, and just focus on the absurdity of it, you can’t help but come up with a consistent view of who did what, when, and why. I don’t think Congress realizes yet that people are smarter now thanks to constant information overload from every direction. You can’t just say something and expect people to believe you just because you’re a person of authority, because we now have tons and tons of evidence that people in authority don’t know what they’re talking about. Part of that is because of Jon Stewart, so it all comes full circle.
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