Jon Stewart and the Daily Show, along with Colbert, are a required nightly ritual in our house. During the Bush years it was the only way I could stand to hear Dubya’s voice- without Jon’s "heh heh heh" following it, it all seemed too real and ugly. Of course, it was- and is- too real and ugly for sane people to tolerate. Stewart and Colbert are masters at skewering the pompous, mocking the endless propaganda of the right and the madness that is 24/7 TerrorVision cable news.
But when it comes to actual things that matter, TDS are nothing more than master gatekeepers- to the point you almost wonder if they have an Obama (or Bush) appointee on their writing staff. The notion of government involvement in 9/11 is mentioned only to deride "crazy" conspiracy theorists, the concept of Bush and Obama being war criminals (as they surely are) is mocked as "extremist" talk that they devoted an entire rally to quashing.
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