I tried watching the Daily Show last night. During the Bush years, I remember people defending Jon Stewart’s partisanship as a result of “oh, Republicans are in power, so they’re the people to attack.” Forget the fact that Republicans have only been partly in power since the 2006 elections, but whatever.
So now that Democrats are unquestionably in power, I thought I’d tune in to see if Stewert had become watchable. He hasn’t. A Democrat president with large Democrat majorties in Congress proposes a budget with World War II level deficit spending, and Stewert spends his section of the show making fun of those who criticize it? And not even making fun of them in a good way, but simply piecing together a dozen small clips from different people, each getting to say two or three words. Ha ha ha! We got Charles Krauthammer saying “Chinese numbers.” And then Stewert will say “Chinese numbers,” and then it will all be very funny because . . .
If your montage makes Charles Krauthammer look stupid, it’s a pretty good sign that you’ve made a dishonest montage. That’s forgivable for a comedian, except Stewert’s montage wasn’t funny. You’d think that if you were just going to piece together two or three random words from a dozen people you disliked, anyone could make a funny montage. But you’d be wrong.
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