heh.
/i'll take this story to my therapist //when i get one
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Jeffrey Fisher <jeff.jfisher at gmail.com>wrote:
> Frankly, I find this reassuring. There are limits to what Stewart and
> Colbert do. But I think what they do is valuable, and if they adopt
> positions parallel to someone like Beck (a comparison I've seen more than
> once), all of that will go down the tubes. I'd rather have them doing what
> they do now and let other people do the other stuff.
>
> the line about beer is a joke, quite obviously. More importantly, it
> performs the backing away from political movement leadership precisely by
> being a joke.
>
> I suppose if they could find ways of being political that don't amount to
> running for office, especially as democrats, and most especially that don't
> amount to their having gotten too big for their britches, I would like to
> see that, Maybe I just like the political imagination (w/nod to Irving
> Kristol) to know what that would look like, but that's just another reason I
> suppose I should leave it to other people. If S&C don't think they can pull
> it off, maybe it is better to trust their judgment(s) on such a thing.
> Otherwise they end up like Olbermann, or worse. and that would be really
> depressing.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
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>> http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/blogs/yeas-and-nays/Stewart_-Colbert-refuse-to-get-political-1400254-106416218.html
>> >
>>
>> Stewart, Colbert refuse to get political
>> By: Katy Adams and Nikki Schwab
>> Washington Examiner
>> 10/31/10 9:00 PM EDT
>>
>> More than 210,000 people attended Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert's Rally
>> to Restore Sanity and/or Fear on the National Mall on Saturday afternoon
>> according to Comedy Central, and while sanity and/or fear may not have been
>> restored to rallygoers, Stewart and Colbert believe the purpose for their
>> production -- to have fun -- was accomplished.
>>
>> "We wanted to do a really good show for people who took the time to come
>> out and see us, and I feel like we accomplished that," Stewart said.
>>
>> With just a few days before the November elections, many believed the
>> rally could have been the perfect platform for Stewart and Colbert to get
>> political. But rather than taking partisan sides, the Comedy Central hosts
>> used the opportunity to poke fun at the political insanity that surrounds
>> us.
>>
>> During Stewart's keynote address at the rally, (which he stayed up late
>> the night before to finish) Stewart even encouraged people to work together
>> to solve problems.
>>
>> "I just wanted to speak a little bit from the heart," he said.
>>
>> At a press conference at the National Press Club following the rally,
>> Stewart and Colbert reluctantly accepted that some people will now perceive
>> them as "players" in the political world, but when a reporter suggested they
>> may even be considered leaders in civil society, Colbert disagreed and said,
>> "I think we led this rally, that's for sure; what goes on beyond that, I
>> don't know."
>>
>> Stewart followed up by saying that is not a role he sees himself fit to
>> play.
>>
>> "We're on the metric system. I understand it's all about who's winning and
>> who's losing and the strategy of this and the players on that, but our
>> currency is not this town's currency," he said. "We are not running for
>> anything. We do not have a constituency. We do television shows for people
>> who like them and we just hope that people continue to like them so that
>> Comedy Central can continue to sell beer to young people."
>>
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