(VIDEO) Daily Show/Colbert Report on the cartoon riots

[Greeby]

http://onegoodmove.org/1gm/1gmarchive/002828.html#002828

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[sasha031]

1. I caught part of that last night

not sure what to think, am I wrong to see him on the right at times.

[motocicleta]

2. I don't watch any TV but what little clips like these I can download, but

I am confused as to what element of this clip sounds like the right?

About this issue: I think we liberals get blamed for not wanting to fight the so-called war on terror, or to face up to the fact of the danger of Islamic fundamentalism. Sometimes the righties who say this are correct, because there does appear to be an element of the left in the West that thinks that if we play nice the threat of terrorism will go away. I don't think that is accurate, but then again it is just as simplistic to think we can only respond to the threat with military force.

I think that we liberals have it right when we refuse to line up behind our leadership because they have shown us they cannot be trusted. Without a basic level of credibility and transparency, our efforts to survive Islamic fundamentalism are a non-starter, and all people who believe in the ideals of the USA should resist.

I guess I am just trying to point out that the fact that our government is so absolutely corrupt and unworthy of our trust, or that our foreign policy choices got us into the mess we're in now, doesn't change the fact that it is actually a mess we're in. So I get confused by short expressions of the right-left division such as the one you typed above. The problem is terribly complex and the solution is likely to be as well, and our partisanship can hurt, even though we are reacting to the much worse partisanship of the other side in this country.

Sorry for the long reply, just a bit confused about what you meant.

[sadiesworld]

3. Stewart will only go so far.

While his show MAY accurately be described as a liberal, it is in no way a lefist or a populist show. I doubt he could get a stand-up gig if he were vocally opposed to neoliberalism, war in the Middle East, intervention in South America, etc.

I have no idea what his actual opinions are.

[GrpCaptMandrake]

4. Assuming a Democrat ever gets back to the White House

you're gonna hate the Daily Show, b/c they'll skewer a Democratic president every bit as hard as they do Dear Leader.

There wasn't any right wing stuff in that piece. What there was, was flat-out a spotlight on the idiocy of fundamentalism.

Fundamentalism rises almost the level of a quantifiable mental illness, and that includes muslim fundamentalism, "christian" fundamentalism and everything up to and including zoroastrian fundamentalism (the worship of Zoro?).