(stewart + fox news) x (colbert + today show) = hilarity
A lazy post tonight. In keeping with the laziness I’ve exhibited in not posting for over a week – still getting used to this real life/internerding balancing act.
I have for you a couple of clips that you’ve probably already seen, but that I’ll post anyway – if only to increase my traffic through publishing the words ‘bin’ and ‘Laden’ a couple of times.
Clip 1: Americana. July 1st’s The Daily Show features John Stewart’s take on the following FOX News (sic) interview, in which former CIA analyst Michael Scheuer tells Glenn Beck that ‘the only chance we have as a country right now is for Osama bin Laden to deploy and detonate a major weapon in the United States’. Apparently such an attack would ‘force Americans to demand that their government protect them effectively, consistently, and with as much violence as necessary.’
Interview excerpt below:
I’m not going to comment any further than: “Holy shit!”. See here for the reason John Stewart has his very own, very successful television show.
Clip 2: Americana with egg. Colbert and co pick up on the embarrassing fact the the only genuine news source (sic) to broadcast Jeff Goldblum’s fake Twitter death last week as genuine was.. drumroll.. Channel Nine’s Today show! See Goldblum eulogise himself (eww), and further hilarity here.
Clip 3: Is not a clip. But it is an excellent article on which News Ltd online content Bernard Keane of Crikey fame would like to see locked away behind a paywall, for subscriber access only. Including : virulent ethnocentrism from commentators, soft-core porn, opinion poll spinning, and further standard content from the likes of the Herald Sun.
Phew. That was easy. Managed to get through that whole thing without expressing a single opinion! Just like that arsehole footy guy in high school did, in every class we shared that didn’t include sweating and kicking shit around on grass.
