Jon Stewart is a genius. If even a few of the interviewers in the "serious" media were as astute, fair, and ballsy as he is, we would have a very different debate going on.
Tonight his guest was Karen Hughes, a former top advisor to president Bush. She seems very nice, she has a new book, the discussion was very polite.
Then Stewart asked her why, if Bush is such a great guy as she says, is it that so many people in the world have such a completely different impression of him.
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Now, you could just feel Jon biting his tongue during this little stream of non-reality. I mean, really, we're beginning to see that it's going to make the world a more peaceful place? Is she nuts? Because of Qaddafi? Please. He wants sanctions lifted, and so he made a public relations move. It's good that his weapons will be gone, but it's not that good. It certainly doesn't discount the rest of the world errupting in an orgy of violence more ghastly each day. Not to mention her little crack about the U.N.
Anyway, after a very pregnant pause, Stewart responds:
Exactly. Exactly fucking right. Their conviction that what they're doing is right is so fierce that it can never allow for any dissenting information. They will sit there and argue that the world is a safer place while the walls literally crumble around them, fiddling while Rome burns.