It took a few years since Craig Kilborn left to prove that in fact, it’s The Daily Show that rocks. Not Craig Kilborn.
From their “Indecision ’04” coverage to their “Mess o’ Potamia” updates, “The Daily” offers nightly some of the sharpest Political Satire available anywhere these days. Sharp enough, apparently, that they’re now able to attract from the political ‘A-List’ for most evening’s guest segments. Recent heavyweights have included Bob Woodward, Madeleine Albright, Bob Kerrey, Karen Hughes, Bob Dole and Richard Clarke to name just a few.
But, as usual, it’s the writing that earns the big bucks.
Consider this exchange from last night’s show as Jon Stewart was interviewing “Senior Political Analyst” Rob Corddry about Sinclair Broadcasting’s decision to block last Friday’s Nightline tribute to “The Fallen” in Iraq.
Stewart asks Corddry if he thought the Nightline show has a biased political agenda as Sinclair suggested:
STEWART: …I’m sorry…I’m sorry, Rob — did you say the facts are biased?!
CORDDRY: That’s right, John…From the names of our fallen soldiers, to the gradual withdrawl of our allies, to the growing insurgency — it’s become all too clear that the facts in Iraq have an anti-Bush agenda.
🙂 Good stuff…It’s remarkable really that Jon Stewart hasn’t yet been added to the Freedom Haters Club along with Michael Moore, Al Franken et al. Probably just a matter of time.
Great going Jon. Keep kicking ass. If the right say’s it, well it’s ok, but when left say’s it, it’s all lie’s. The only lie I keep hearing is dub has a heart. He could care less about the coffin’s. It like his mother said,
why should she waste her beutiful mind on such trivial stuff. BITCH!!!
There’s that typical liberal profanity! You guys are so filled with hate it’s incredible.
Typical right winger, blame their own faults on the left. If anyone is filled with hate its rabid right-wingers like Limbaugh,Hannity,and Coulter etc. Heres 50 cents do me a favor and buy a clue.
Yeah, I think hate is present on both the right and the left because of how divided this country is. But I can understand the hate of the left more because of how rabid the likes of Limbaugh, Hannity and Coulter are. Al Franken does a really good job of exposing their distortions in his various publications. Sure, liberal commentators are capable of distortions as well, but with the exception of Air America Radio, they don’t have nearly the sway or national audience that right-wing media does. Even Fox News gets higher ratings than CNN or MSNBC.
A nice li’l article to support your thesis, Omar:
http://slate.msn.com/id/2086691