Man, did Jon Stewart ever give him a soft interview the other night.
He's so nice to evil fucks sometimes.
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I felt the same way after watching Stewart's remarkably respectful interview with Kenneth R. Timmerman, author of the melodramatically named "Countdown to Crisis: The Coming Nuclear Showdown with Iran".
Timmerman's "evidence" to support his super-heated claims about the threat from Iran (so over-the-top he might as well have said the Iranians were building a race of time traveling robot cats that shoot nuclear missiles from their titanium paws) was a mirror image of the 'we must invade Iraq now!' rap: shadowy meetings with liberty loving expats, secret intelligence briefings "even the CIA wasn't privy to", claims of anxious young people, impatiently waiting to toss flowers at incoming American troops...and so on and so forth.
Through it all, Jon gazed at Timmerman in grim admiration and commented on how "important" and "sobering" his book was. Watching, it occurred to me that the book was indeed both those things but only because it was being used to justify further aggression.
I ranted about this to a friend but he advised me to calm down. "Jon's an entertainer who happens to have a few ideas you agree with and a style that makes pompous fucks look like what they are. That's it. He's not Chomsky, or even you...he doesn't have a coherent analysis so he's sway-able by what appear to be reasonable arguments because there's no background to see below the surface. We're just so hungry for media savvy front men and women we'll adopt people who're really only quasi-there."
And so it seems to be.
.d.
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