Jon Stewart on Newsweek

[Killarney]

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3769869/
Pretty funny article/interview with Jon Stewart. Here are some good quotes:

"I heard Dennis Kucinich in the last Democratic debate say, 'When I'm president ... ,' and I just wanted to stop him and say, 'Dude'."

"We've got us a Democratic general!" he says, clearly elated about having Gen. Wesley Clark as his guest. "That's like a gay black Republican. It's a rare beast."

"A small group of handpicked journalists accompanied the president on his top-secret mission to tell the entire world about his top-secrecy."

[Jivenwail]

1. This was great!

Thanks so much for posting this....long live "The Daily Show" and Jon Stewart!

[silverweb]

2. What a GREAT article!

I snickered and giggled all the way through it. I'm just going to have to resubscribe to expanded cable so I can watch The Daily Show again. Stewart's show is the only one I miss. His coverage of the primaries and Democratic convention will be absolutely classic material, you may be sure!

This paragraph is too good not to highlight: "For all the talk about the show's political bite, it's downright vicious to reporters. From the "senior correspondents" who never really leave the studio, to interviewers who are too impressed with their questions to wait for an answer, it's kind of amazing that the show has become a media darling. And it never misses a real news faux pas. A segment last week that showed an MSNBC reporter climbing into a plywood box made to imitate Saddam Hussein's bunker — "So Saddam apparently got his spider hole from IKEA?" said Stewart — was beyond hilarious. "I'm actually far more interested in the media's responsibility than the politicians'," says Stewart. "To me, the most interesting shot in the documentary 'Journeys With George', is from behind the horde of reporters going to a staged event. You ever see 8-year-olds play soccer? It's just this weird clump of legs, and then all of a sudden the ball will fly out and with no strategy or game, they just go 'Ball!' That's what the media is."

You tell 'em, Jon. Luv ya!

:D

On edit: Fix dumb stuff I do when I'm sleepy. x2.

[grannylib]

3. The Daily Show is the closest thing to a legitimate news program out

there