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[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by bilmore
Why always look for the oversimplified answer, Ty?

(Which, actually, is JS's complaint.)

I think he's a riot. But, just as I don't look to my favorite singers to educate me on cell biology, I don't look to good comics for political education.

He claims that this little news show does us a disservice by reducing everything to a quick slogan - by not truly debating the issues in any meaningful way.

Well, the little news show gives us no more and no less than its viewers will stand for. Try a three hour panel discussion on health care catastrophic capping - but only try it once, because you won't be on the next time. We will tune it out, and it will be cancelled.

But JS was one of the few people of intelligence that had Kerry on a show, available for intelligent discussion. Don't tell me that he couldn't go political there - he does it all the time. Yeah, it was on his comedy talk show, but his complaint about CF rings hollow if he can't step out of the mold for ten minutes and give us substance. He wants CF to step out of their mold - why not him?

I think it's sour grapes because he doesn't think Kerry's "message" is getting out. It's just too depressing for him to think that maybe it IS getting out, and that's the problem.

Stewart stepped out of the mold when he came up with TDS. You get more substance in a single show than you do in several hours of Crossfire, which is a massive waste of space. You have a valid point when you say that that's what viewers want. Presumably, there's a reason why people watch CNN instead of CSPAN.