Reply #43: Watching the rally yesterday, my husband said it's easy to be civil when you're Jon Stewart--he may

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care about the poor, oppressed, stomped upon in general, but at the end of the day, it really doesn't affect him. He' doing work he's good and an enjoys. And if he's not completely irresponsible, he's set financially for life.

I totally agree. I like Stewart. He's funny and smart, and he generally supports progressive causes, but, I think he tries too hard to find fault with our side for the sake of his own claim to "fairness and balance." I disagree that the purposely deceptive or the willfully ignorant deserve respect. It took him far too long to see McCain for what he's become. I too have wanted to ask President Obama--"Where's the effing audacity?!" But, although he does better than most, I don't know if he's ever pushed quite so hard at one of his Republicon guests as he did with Obama.

However, the thing that's really strained my agree-to-disagree respect for him is that I find it completely irrational to equate, as he has, MSNBC with Fox Noose. It is not reasonable to invariably believe the two-sides-to-every-story myth. As I frequently mention, HBO's The Wire had the best line on that:

A lie is not another side of the story. It's just a lie.