The blogs have been running mostly on auto-pilot the past week or so--the magic of pre-scheduling posts mean that I can be away and still post snarky elections comments and get the
Nine Days of the Ninja started!--but this post at
Who Wants Taters? reminded me that I wanted to put up this video:
I agree with every sentiment that Stewart expresses in his closing remarks to his "Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear." However, I question the sincerity of his overall effort. I didn't have time to watch the entire broadcast, but I can't help but wonder where the mockery of left-wing nutburgers were. We had Colbert doing his usual satire of right-wingers, but where was the same skewering of the left-wing freaks, like Code Pink and several of the regular columnists at the Huffington Post. (Of course, maybe Stewart was unable to take shots as them, since they were kicking in contributions to make the rally happen.)
It's possible that the lefties had spears lobbed at them when I wasn't looking. Like I missed most of this bit in the next clip, a "debate" between Stewart and Colbert.
(And I guess in this skit, Colbert is channeling nutters from all walks of American society.)
You raise good points....
ReplyDeleteAnd Colbert is hilarious to me precisely because he does seem to channel all kinds of nutters, even if the main shtick is his O'Riley impression.
I with you, as far as thinking Colbert is funnier than Stewart, partly because more than once he's vocalized something I think to myself in my more dour moments... and he makes me glad for not blurting out everything that crosses my mind.
ReplyDeleteI also think Colbert is at his funniest when he's doing his "big geek" schtick.
I don't think they even mentioned radical moslems, did they?
ReplyDeleteCat "I'd help murder Salman Rushdie if I had the chance" Stevens performed, so I'd say they went a far sight further than mentioning radical Muslims.
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