Tuesday, May 11, 2004
Not Even Net
The Daily Show, 5/11/04:
Then they took the joke meta by bringing on Tim Russert to tap dance around Stewart's repeated questions about the press' somnolence and suffocate the airwaves with brain-crippling bromides about the Greatest Generation and the presidential campaign. Did you know that if things continue to deteriorate, it will help Kerry's campaign, but if we have security and prosperity come November, Bush will probably be re-elected? Does Russert think he could pass the Turing test?
Stewart's offer to trade England "one Aaron Brown, two Britt Humes and a Van Susteren" for one of their journos was also spot on.
Jon Stewart: Stephen, what do you think about this idea that we are hearing from Rumsfeld, and now Sen. Inhofe, that the press was somehow irresponsible for releasing these photos of abuse?
Stephen Colbert: Jon, I agree entirely with Secy Rumsfeld that the release of these photos was deplorable, but these actions of a few rogue journalists do not represent the vast majority of the American media.
Stewart: The journalists did something wrong?
Colbert: I'm just saying those journalists don't represent the journalists I know. The journalists I know love America, but now all anybody wants to talk about is the bad journalists--the journalists that hurt America.
But what they don't talk about is all the amazingly damaging things we haven't reported on. Who didn't uncover the flaws in our pre-war intelligence? Who gave a free pass on the Saddam-al Queda connection? Who dropped Aghanistan from the headlines at the first whiff of this Iraqi snipehunt? The United States press corps, that's who. Heck, we didn't even put this story on the front page. We tried to bury it on "60 Minutes II." Who's on that--Charlie Rose and Anglela Lansbury?
Stewart: Stephen, what do you think is at play here?
Colbert: Politics, Jon, that's what. Pure and simple. I think it's pretty suspicious that these tortures took place during a Presidential campaign. This is a clear cut case of partisan sadism. You know, come to think of it, I'm pretty sure those Iraqi prisoners want Bush out of office too. You know I wouldn't be a bit surprised if a pile of hooded, naked Iraqis has a job waiting for them in the Kerry Administration.
Then they took the joke meta by bringing on Tim Russert to tap dance around Stewart's repeated questions about the press' somnolence and suffocate the airwaves with brain-crippling bromides about the Greatest Generation and the presidential campaign. Did you know that if things continue to deteriorate, it will help Kerry's campaign, but if we have security and prosperity come November, Bush will probably be re-elected? Does Russert think he could pass the Turing test?
Stewart's offer to trade England "one Aaron Brown, two Britt Humes and a Van Susteren" for one of their journos was also spot on.
