Monday, November 01, 2010

Jon Stewart, philosophe

Actually, he gets off some good lines, for example:
There are terrorists, and racists, and Stalinists, and theocrats, but those are titles that must be earned! You must have the resume! Not being able to distinguish between real racists and Tea Party-ers, or real bigots and Juan Williams or Rick Sanchez is an insult--not only to those people, but to the racists themselves, who have put in the exhausting effort it takes to hate. Just as the inability to distinguish terrorists from Muslims makes us less safe, not more.
On the whole, he says nothing though, and of course, Tecs thinks everyone with a funny hat and a beard is Stalin himself.
Even the pretense of moderation doesn't sell at MSNBC.

3 comments:

Tecumseh said...

Matthews explains why we can't understand why running up deficits into the trillions is just what the doctor ordered: we didn't go to grad school.

It's all making sense now.

Mr roT said...

Matthews went to grad school?

Tecumseh said...

That's what he seems to imply. Wiki says: He is a 1967 graduate of the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, and did graduate work in economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Hmmm...