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Related links for this week:
Rachel Maddow's Lecture at Harvard's Kennedy School
Susie Bright: How will the mid-term Tea Party Triumph affect your sex life?
Rolling Stone Roundtable with Gergen and Taibbi
2 comments:
I think you're being a bit hard on Stewart, who for years reserved the largest knife in the drawer for conservatives. The greater representation of liberal voices in the media among his targets is a recent development -- and while some of it is undoubtedly a natural consequence of democrats now being in power, i think it's ultimately more personal with him. I found very revealing the part of his exchange with Rachel where she was trying to get him to admit that he was essentially on her and Keith's side -- if not in reality than at least in spirit an public perception. He appeared visibly discomfited when she tried to draw the circle around them both (or maybe it was just his flu). I get his distinction between political satire and journalism, but that doesn't change the fact that he has always been more like Keith and Rachel than not. I'm sure Stewart would reply that this seeming identity was simply because they grew up in the same dark universe created by two terms of Bush, and so the power to which truth had to be spoken masked the different character of the voices. For whatever reason he is now uncomfortable with the comparison and is trying to create some distance, which unfortunately involves resorting to the occasional false equivalence. Maybe he's worried about relevance, maybe he's trying to remake his image, not necessarily as a centrist but as someone who has no allegiances, maybe he's just getting older. Who knows. But he is certainly nowhere near the pathological centrism of david Brooks or Broder.
As always, you kept me laughing to keep from crying with your excellent analysis!!!! Thanks!!!
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