TDS and CR - RAVE!

I just love Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. Their shows are just wonderful with humor, information, and satire. The last two nights have been great.

Jon did a wonderful bit about how the Dems are so curiously focused on the name of the Repubs attempt to repeal the health-care bill (about it being "job killing") that they completely miss the point that the bill substantively isn't "job killing". How about addressing the real issue Dems, instead of just the stupid name?

Then Stephen Colbert's show Tuesday night. He had a great bit about a tea party guy attempting to destroy an integrated school district because it actually was addressing the problems caused by separation.

# See, misguided government doogooders foolishly diluted the problem by addressing it. We need to ignore it so we'll pay attention to it.

# The injustices will become so apparent to everyone, that we'll put aside our differences that we worked so hard to reinstate, and join together in a new civil rights movement to undo the undoing of what we've already done.


Finally, Stephen's Palin rant was incredible. Copying it because it was so brilliant:

"Mika, you need to buck up. I know you think this story has no purpose other than keeping Sarah Palin's name in the headlines for another news cycle. I know you think she has nothing to offer the national dialogue, and that her speeches are just coded talking points mixed in with words picked up at random from a thesaurus. I know you think Sarah Palin is at best a self-promoting ignoramus and at worst a shameless media troll who'll abuse any platform to deliver dog whistle encouragement to a far right base that may include possible insurrectionists. I know you think her reality show was pathetically unstatesmanlike and at the same time, I know you also think it represents the pinnacle of her potential, and that her transparent desperation to be a celebrity so completely eclipsed her interest in public service so long ago that there would be more journalistic integrity in reporting on one of the lesser Kardashians' ass implants. I know when you arrive at the office each day you say a silent prayer that maybe, just maybe, Sarah Palin will at long last shut up for 10 fucking minutes. I know, because I can see it in your eyes."

Yes, don't we all wish that SP would shut the fuck up for 10 minutes.

OTOH, I hope both Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert keep talking for a long long time.