How insulting to compare those two people. Obama is brilliant, highly educated, truth-telling, and cares about the people he who elected him. I have described my negative opinions of Sarah Palin enough on this blog and will not tediously repeat myself today. None of the positive adjectives used to describe Obama can be applied to her.
What does this say about our current media. Everyone is writing a book. It used to be that professors, in order to gain or retain tenure, had to publish. Now everyone is writing their version of reality and history.
Monday night, John Yoo (the government lawyer who felt that torture was indicated and legal) was on the The Daily Show. For some reason, people commenting thought Stewart was too kind and expected him to take Yoo 'to task'. The extended interview can be seen if you click here.People do not think about the agendas for things. It reminds me of a participant in a book review group who wanted me to show videos! I really had to say what part of book review have I failed to stress sufficiently? Stewart did what his producers asked of him and let the man describe the book (Crisis and Command). If people watched and recalled the news during the Bush administration, the might not bother to buy the book. You did not appear on the show to debate his book with Jon Stewart who was a remarkably gracious host to a man who did a great disservice to our country. It was not his place nor his choice to do otherwise. Any intelligent person watching the interview would have caught Stewart's failure to agree with Yoo's basic tenets. The political and news media is trying to entertain. People forget, Jon Stewart makes it very clear that he is not a news-person but an entertainer. He was not asked to clean out the Aegean stables, just to be funny, though I learn more about what is happening from him than the 'real' news channels.
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