I love this
Oct. 24th, 2004 10:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ceebeegeeFrom yesterday's Washington Post Free For All Page:
Jon Stewart did something [on last week's Crossfire] that we never see on scripted, conventional television: He stepped out of character and decided to be truly and intentionally offensive -- to be rude to the very hosts who had just praised him -- in order to tell the truth and to hold these guys accountable. When he said to them, "You're hurting America," he wasn't joking. The criticism that he was trying to levy -- between Tucker Carlson's constant interruptions and Paul Begala's desperate attempts to make it all funny again -- was that real political discourse has been replaced by an echo chamber of spin, manufactured outrage and meaningless theater.
Jon Stewart did something [on last week's Crossfire] that we never see on scripted, conventional television: He stepped out of character and decided to be truly and intentionally offensive -- to be rude to the very hosts who had just praised him -- in order to tell the truth and to hold these guys accountable. When he said to them, "You're hurting America," he wasn't joking. The criticism that he was trying to levy -- between Tucker Carlson's constant interruptions and Paul Begala's desperate attempts to make it all funny again -- was that real political discourse has been replaced by an echo chamber of spin, manufactured outrage and meaningless theater.
