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Lessons from the Idiot Box Jon Stewert of Comedy Centrals "Daily Show" appearantly also feels displaced by extremist politics-
While he certainly seems progressive, Stewart demurred in a New Yorker article last year by Tad Friend: "My comedy is not the comedy of the neurotic. It comes from the center. But it comes from feeling displaced from society because you're in the center. We're the group of fairness, common sense and moderation. ... The disenfranchised center is upset that the extremes control the agenda." ..Indeed
Also this gem from Bill Moyers-
While interviewing Stewart this summer on "NOW with Bill Moyers," the veteran newsman confessed, "I do not know whether you are practicing an old form of parody and satire ... or a new form of journalism." Moyers later added: "When I report the news on this broadcast, people say I'm making it up. When you make it up, they say you're telling the truth."
..A must read..