The Daily Show's First Post 9/11 Episode
POSTED BY: misbehaven
UPDATED: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 23:30
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I don't see a comedy show as being any great conscious for America. If it is, then we're doomed.
It's usually not, but with his poring his heart out like he did, it was especally poignant.
Then again, I don't believe America has a group conscious, at least there isn't one that speaks for me.
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Stewart himself says it's just a comedy show. It's there to help people bear with the bad. He points out that if everyone wasn't already following and caring, his jokes would not be funny. We bring with us the frame of reference that makes us laugh at his commentary.
He also has said off show that he has only one real central political message: Partisanship is a lie. He's a complete moderate and sees both parties as equally corrupt, and the media uses fake arguments to pit one against the other and get us riled up in the competition between team blue and team red.
The fake argument serves the corrupt cabal, and their hired guns.
For anyone who is foggy in the point, he yacks about it for about an hour on C-Span.
Here's a youtube post of the show:
btw, not to nitpick, but the word you guys are looking for is 'conscience.'
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