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The Daily Show - Second Half of the McCain Interview

By Manila Ryce
Published Thursday, May 8th, 2008, 4:27 am
Filed under: Videos: Political, Videos, US Politics

Don’t worry. The first half of the interview was just crappy jokes to break the tension.

I suppose I should be angry at John McCain for existing and Jon Stewart for not being more aggressive, but I’m not. Stewart has displayed his reluctance before to chastise the warmongers he invites on, so it’s really not surprising anymore when a highly-anticipated showdown turns into an incoherent mesh of nervous jokes and passive-aggressive cowering. Stewart did try this time to actually address some real issues, so I will give credit where it’s due.


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In addition, holding McCain’s feet to the fire while giving Clinton and Obama a free pass would simply be partisan hackery. I’m all for Stewart getting tougher with politicians, but only as long as he does so with both guilty parties. The blogosphere is full of privileged hypocrites who’ve been demanding that Stewart hit McCain with a folding chair mid-interview, but will go on tirades about sexism, racism, or Democratic treason if anyone dares criticize Hillary and Barack on the same issues. These two candidates (who honestly aren’t that different from Mr. Double Talk Express) have been warmly welcomed by Stewart before. In fact, Hillary is much more aggressive towards Iran than McCain, and probably deserves the most amount of scrutiny amongst the three. If so-called liberals are going to grow some balls and start criticizing their leaders, they should first criticize the ones who claim to represent them.

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4 Responses to “The Daily Show - Second Half of the McCain Interview”

  1. I thought it was decent, considering. The two men, I mean cultural hero and warmonger, are so far apart it is amazing they got anything of substance across during the exchange- only lasting a few minutes. Stewart could hardly stop himself from jumping to the next point while McCain kept making moves to the door, I half expected him to do it at one point.

    Duder
    05/8/08 at 10:19 am

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  4. I wanted to comment and thank the author, good stuff

    ray
    03/2/09 at 12:53 pm

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