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Edited on Thu Dec-01-05 12:40 PM by Crisco
All this righteousness about Jon Stewart making a wisecrack about John Kerry once every three months or so (yes folks, last night was not the first time) is a hoot and a half.
If John Kerry had won the presidency in 2004, how often do you think he'd be a butt of TDS jokes, then? More like once per night. 50/50 chance of it, at least.
Because that's what politically-oriented comedians do. They make fun of people in power. They say truths that few others dare.
I don't want to get into a retread of all the primaries fights, here, just to say that John F. Kerry was not the golden ideal candidate that some people want to think he was. If he were, Jon Stewart would be making jokes about him more often (see above).
As for how he's supposed to conduct himself during the supposedly more-serious interviews, how he conducts himself is up to Stewart, and Stewart alone. Some people might want to have him fawn over Democratic leaders the way Peggy Noonan gets out the kneepads for 'pukes, or say whatever they want to unchallenged, like Tim Russert, but I'm not in that group, nor are the majority of Stewart's fans.
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