Rare Form
To those fans of The Daily Show, and Jon Stewart in particular: Watch the July 13 episode of The Daily Show. Jon interviews Bernard Goldberg, the author of "100 People Who Are Screwing Up America" and completely decimates him. He's just a sharp, intelligent, well-researched interviewer, and Mr. Goldberg doesn't even realize what hit him until just before the commercial break. Catch it if you can, the interview is a classic example of exposing someone with humor.
And while we're on the topic of the Daily Show, yesterday they devoted the entire episode to the Karl Rove story. It was a thing of beauty how they took all the past edited clips from White House press conferences and showed exactly how the government blatantly LIED when asked specific questions. And lucky for us, the press corps seems to have learned how to ask a pointed question and rake someone over the coals.
But seriously, go set your VCR to tape the rerun from Tuesday, and hopefully it'll be available online soon.
Comments
After reading this I stayed up and watched the re-run of this episode. I haven't read Goldberg's book and I don't plan to. That said, it seems like the big mistake that he made is that the book should be titled "100 People Who Are Screwing Up American Culture" and subtitled "And Ruining America, Insofar As Culture Affects Our Way Of Life And Stuff." Of course, if he did that I'm not sure how he could draw in readers with the cover announcement that he is going to take a shot at Al Franken.
I don't disagree with Goldberg that culture is getting raunchier. I don't think Stewart disagreed with him on that point either. I would imagine that Stewart would also probably agree that a raunchier culture has some spillover effects on our nation as a whole. But it was/is obvious that this book is designed to take that point and essentially infer that the people that are trashing up culture are also the people that are making America weak a point that Stewart rightly called him out for.
Posted by: Jeffrey Utech | July 17, 2005 10:30 PM