Jon Stewart:: IT'S NOT A SHOW

[filkertom]

The Daily Show on the criticisms of the Tucson memorial service. The last few minutes with Samantha Bee and John Oliver are not as good as they might be, but the first five minutes... wow.

Comments

[alverant.livejournal.com]

I understand Faux Noise was already criticizing the President even before the speech ended.

[jenk]

"The TV people on "Fox & Friends" were perplexed and offended by the Native American blessing offered at the memorial service Wednesday night in Tucson, Ariz....That just strikes me as an incredibly egocentric and petty response to a memorial service. When people gather to mourn, you mourn with them." - http://slacktivist.typepad.com/slacktivist/2011/01/mourn-with-those-who-mourn.html

Slacktivist is written by a lefty Evangelical, and the comments get pretty ecumenical (as in Wiccans and atheists in with xtians of all stripes)

[hitchkitty.livejournal.com]

I had already like Slacktivist for the author's critique of the Left Behind series. Now I like it more.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Fox - way to show your pettiness, vicious spite and xenophobia ("Ew, an Indian with a Mexican name waving his weirdo fake religious stuff around instead of Jeezis-Hates-Yew KKKhristian blessings!").

I admit -- I too was originally repelled by the constant applause in the service (made it look like the SOTU or a pep rally - and my first thought was "Oh BOY, will Fox News eat this up").

But then I remembered the convention I went to, exactly one month after 9/11. I'd never heard people laugh harder during our comedy sketch, enjoy a con more, or spend more money during the charity auction.

And part of the Beatles' huge popularity in the States was the timing of their arrival - February 1964. After over two solid months of mourning JFK, Americans were glad to have a reason to laugh and sing and dance again.

[salkryn.livejournal.com]

Well, as Stewart pointed out: ever been to an Irish wake? I remember the wakes for my mother's parents, and I remember the laughter, the stories, and the smiles, despite the fact that everyone was mourning. It's simply the way some people cope with grief.

[morpheus0013.livejournal.com]

GodsDAMN, the thing with them going after the NA blessing is just pissing me off harder and harder. It's not only racially and religiously disgusting, but it shows a complete lack of understanding of, I don't know, THE FUCKING DEMOGRAPHICS OF ARIZONA.

[pandoradeloeste.livejournal.com]

Seriously - how are Native Americans (assuming any watch Fox News) supposed to feel about someone saying their blessings are inappropriate?

[hitchkitty.livejournal.com]

Perhaps something on the order of:
"The paleface doesn't get it. So what else is new?"

[zellion.livejournal.com]

This was awesome, thank you for posting it.

[unclelumpy.livejournal.com]

Rod forbid you should cheer in agreement with the President of the United States of America.

I grant you, "Hear, hear!" would have been more appropriate, but it's not in the popular lingo of the day.