Barack and Jon
For me, President Obama‘s visit last night with Jon Stewart wasn’t all that satisfying because of Stewart’s tendency to flick questions in a roundabout way rather than put them straight. I would have loved it if he’d said, “Have you seen Inside Job, Mr. President? The same bad guys who authored and endorsed our ridiculous derivative-scheme predicament in the Clinton and Bush years are part of your team right now. What about that?”
Also: “What did you think of The Social Network? More to the point, what did you think of the Larry Summers scene in that film? Is that the guy you know to any degree? Did he seem a bit familiar, or was Aaron Sorkin just flying off and having fun in his own realm?”
What do we do now?
…and did you see PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 2, Mr. President? Were you pleasantly surprised that the two female leads, Sprague Grayden and Katie Featherstone had suburban mom bodies? Do you think that Mel Gibson should be in HANGOVER 2? How is Mike Tyson a better citizen than Mel? And what about Dax Shepard’s wack-ass tattoo? Doesn’t it make him look like he has a skin disease? And how about the ISHTAR BluRay?
Thank you, Prager!
It was a great interview to those of us who don’t have an all-or-nothing view of this president.
First off, it started off with the President, instead of making him cool his heels in the green room the way jackass Leno did, coming out with little preamble.
But better yet, Stewart did his very unique thing of being informed, pressing without being pushy and yet never given into the temptation to be pretentious by getting too serious while all the while he maintained an atmosphere of overall respect that he was sitting across from POTUS.
My only 2 quibbles are that he at least twice thought Mr Obama was making a joke when he was not and that he didn’t have the stones to ask him to the rally. But considering they went 5 minutes into Colbert’s time slot, it was probably something that got dropped to wrap things up.
Again while watching this I was reminded just how fucking incredibly lucky this country is to have this man as our head of state at this particular junction in our history. If you want to bone chilling shudder, imagine if Mr. “I don’t know as much about the economy as I should” McCain had won.
“My only 2 quibbles are that he at least twice thought Mr Obama was making a joke when he was not…”
So the president’s “heckuva job” comment with regard to Summers wasn’t a joke?