That was amusing. But what was *fantastic* was Stewart's skewering of the right-wing know-nothing broadcast journalists' treatment of Sharpton's speech. I wish I had it on tape. It was like, imagine that FAIR took over the Daily Show for 5 minutes and imagine that they were great at video editing and hilariously funny. He cut back and forth between the inane journalists's comments and the actual speech. For a lot of it, all you needed was the actual speech to see how blatantly pig-headed the journalists were. For example, Stewart showed various journalists saying that Sharpton had insulted black people with his jiving, etc. So Stewart shows the crowd reacting to Sharpton's speech, including, of course, black people. And of course the people are on their feet, cheering, waving their signs, etc. And Stewart voices over what the cheering people are really thinking: I'm so insulted by what you're saying.
He made Newsweek's Howard Fineman look like a real putz, in addition to the more overtly right-wing people. It was truly transcendent.
P.S. To be fair, one should note that the young woman that Stewart's reporter yawned in front of was the only one with a good comeback. She said, "I'm sorry, should I drop some balloons for you?"
- Robert Naiman
At 11:37 PM 7/29/2004 -0400, you wrote:
Just watched a hilarious 30 minutes of comic coverage of the Democratic Party convention with Stewart's sidekicks doing a kind of Ali G routine with delegates.
While listening to a woman identified as a "Kerry spokesperson" explain how Kerry had rallied the party, blah-blah, Stewart's reporter (a bald guy--don't know his name) began yawning ostentatiously. When asked him if she was boring him, he said without skipping a beat, "It's not you, it's just what you are saying."
After shaking James Carville's hand, another reporter, Richard Colbert (?) told him that he was great in "Slingblade".
The fact that this show is wildly popularly with young people gives me hope for the future.
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