Richard Clarke was just on The Daily Show, and Jon Stewart spent about ten minutes with him as opposed to the usual five, and I’m thinking that if The Daily Show is beating out the network nightly newscasts in the ratings, then it is wonderful that Richard Clarke, one of the very few bureaucrats one could ever really admire, could tell his side of things to all the young folk out there whose opinions of the world are shaped in part by The Daily Show. Very long run-on sentence. Bad news–to be fair, I suppose, Jon Stewart will have Bush tutor Karen Hughes on the next show. She’ll probably be as articulate as Richard Clarke, and I’ll be too biased to appreciate it if her arguments are at all convincing. In any event, I love The Daily Show and its mere presence on the airwaves gives some optimism regarding the future of this country. Anyway…I don’t feel the same way about Colin Quinn’s Tough Crowd; it’s terribly grating; I miss Politically Incorrect and don’t get HBO so I don’t see Bill Maher’s weekly talk show. Eek…Kennedy is one of the guests. Must change channel…
Colin Quinn is pretty grating.
Bill Maher’s show just… bugs me. I think I made that decision when he opened up his post 9/11 show with something like “Let’s start this show by agreeing just to support our president and our troops. We don’t get anything by saying that we disagree with the war or the president or what’s going on. Our troops are already over there, and the president has done what he’s done. So, let’s not talk about disagreeing with it anymore, let’s all just support them.”
Which sucks. And misses a big point in my book.