Watching Jon Stewart (thanks Anglican for the reminder) and winced when I heard that Goldberg was on pimping his book. The guy annoys me. His book on media Bias is simply laughable given the proliferation of conservative biases in the news.
Well, it was worth the watching. Jon Stewart is kicking his ass. Goldberg's big complaint is the f-word? Are you kidding me? Torture? Lies to get us into a war? He also equates racist remarks with the f-word? Really? What a fucking moron. (oops, sorry, Bernie. Did I just undermine the culture?) Please!
Again. Torture. Invading Iraq on false premises. Outing a CIA operative. Those are obscene and vulgar.
Jon really took him apart. Paraphrasing the last sentence: "The real power is in Washington where transparency is the issue, and I wish smart guys like you would focus on the Richard Perle's and Karl Roves rather than complain about Barbara Streisand's blog."
Preach it Jon. The smartest guy in the country.
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Oh mercy. I just caught it on the west coast. I haven't seen Jon that brutally engaged in an interview in quite some time.
When Goldberg made some lameass attempt at a joke having to do with Al Franken flushing his book down the toilet, Jon said something along the lines of "Comedy's hard. Maybe you shouldn't try it." That's when I knew it was on.
What a silly, silly man.
I heard Goldberg say that about Franken, but didn't quite catch Jon's response.
Just so annoying. All the things that are truly vulgar and obscene, and few of them (Roy Moore seemed to be the exception) were in the book.
I saw this book on display at B&N the other day and the sight of it made me quite angry.
Goldberg was shown up to be the chump that he is last night. Truly, the biggest problem in America is cultural courseness and vulgarity not things like, you know, war, poverty, abuse of power
There was one other comment in Stewart's closing remarks to the effect of "or whomever their counterparts might be when the Democrats are back in the White House" that made it clear that Jon Stewart's point was about power and its abuse rather than about partisanship.
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