If Laughter, as Reader's Digest Claims, Is Really the Best Medicine, Here's Someone Beyond Hope

Boy, I thought liberals took things seriously. Get a load of Greg Piper, a conservative who apparently got his sense of humor at a Soviet re-education camp. Here's Greg not losing perspective at all while going after the self-described "fake news" program, The Daily Show:

In Stewart's opening anchor segment Tuesday, he showed a clip of President Bush Monday at the Rose Garden saying that he wanted to create a national director of intelligence position, because the nation was "in danger," then they pulled another Bush soundbite from a recent Republican fundraiser where he said the nation was "safer." Stewart said Bush's two statements reminded him of a word with "flip" and "flop," then decided sarcastically that the word was "strong leader." I wonder if Stewart can really be this thick-headed, or whether it was just an easy "gotcha" joke with his monkey-see-monkey-laugh audience of blank-slate college students.

Greg, babe: It's a comedy show. Get a grip. Not every joke is a threat to the American Way.

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Comments

[Greg]

FuncAmb, babe, I've been watching the Daily Show since Craig Kilborn was hosting, and I started an alt-paper on my campus because the official student paper was too boring, preachy and naive when it came to administration policy. So I think I know a little something about humor and political skewering. Most of the Daily Show is just fine, and the correspondent segments are still great. But have you not noticed the Stewart jokes have been getting less funny in and of themselves, and more ideological over the past several months? The Bush jokes just aren't as funny as they used to be - they sound like they were written by Joe Conason or some similarly humorless Salon writer. As Jerry Seinfeld might say, "I object to it as a comedian."