Gotta love Jon Stewart, and if you don’t I am worried for you. Here is an excerpt from the interview he and Stephen Colbert did for Entertainment Weekly this week in which Jon aptly describes how the media currently operates. Spot on!
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Forget the two presidential candidates: The most prominent person in this election right now is Sarah Palin. With the attention she’s getting, you’d think she was running for president.
JON STEWART: Everyone likes new and shiny. We’re bored. What’s great about that is [Democratic VP candidate Joe] Biden is an absolutely eccentric character. That’s how powerful Palin’s story is — it has cast the first African-American presidential nominee, the oldest [non-incumbent] presidential nominee, and a really wild cork vice presidential candidate completely out of the picture. The press is 6-year-olds playing soccer; nobody has a position, it’s just ”Where’s the ball? Where’s the ball? Sarah Palin has the ball!” [Mimes a mob running after her.] Because they can only cover one thing.
We get the Daily Show down here and it’s great.
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, The Daily Show. I think that sometimes they deliver a better truth than the “real” news shows.