Jon Stewart & John Kerry
Oct. 20th, 2004 12:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chenanceouJon's response to the whole Crossfire thing was pretty funny. Let me share my favorite bit.
I told them I thought their show was hurting America. And they came back at me pretty good. They said that I wasn't being funny (Actually Carlson whined that one). And I said to them: I know that, but tomorrow I'll go back to being funny and your show will still blow.
I have to say I'm not even going to try and see both sides on this one. At all. I can't stand Tucker Carlson and was full of abundant glee to see and hear him being called a dick on national television - not to mention the little thing about his bow ties. So I'll be juvenile and just wallow in the happy. Life is short and a bitch - let me have my joy.
Saw Going Up River. I have to thank![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ww1614 for the link.
It just made my admiration for Kerry grow even more. Call me shallow, but I'm more than a little taken by the man. How can anybody go over this man's record and say he is soft? Perhaps his policies are too liberal for some people's tastes (not liberal enough for others, but such is life) - but call him soft and indecisive? I guess some people are more comfortable with the John Wayne-ish decision making style (shoot first, think later) and may confuse thinking things through with indecisiveness. Just a guess, since I've reached the point where I can't understand how anybody can be blind to this man's intelligence and integrity. Again, maybe he's not a guy who is for you - but to attack him on his war record and decision making skills? No, I can't get it. Couldn't before, can't at all now.
Each day to facilitate the process by which the United States washes her hands of Vietnam someone has to give up his life so that the United States doesn't have to admit something that the entire world already knows, so that we can't say that we have made a mistake. Someone has to die so that President Nixon won't be, and these are his words, "the first President to lose a war."
We are asking Americans to think about that because how do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake? But we are trying to do that, and we are doing it with thousands of rationalizations...
Note: It scares me how this fits with what is going on today - 33 years later.
I told them I thought their show was hurting America. And they came back at me pretty good. They said that I wasn't being funny (Actually Carlson whined that one). And I said to them: I know that, but tomorrow I'll go back to being funny and your show will still blow.
I have to say I'm not even going to try and see both sides on this one. At all. I can't stand Tucker Carlson and was full of abundant glee to see and hear him being called a dick on national television - not to mention the little thing about his bow ties. So I'll be juvenile and just wallow in the happy. Life is short and a bitch - let me have my joy.
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Saw Going Up River. I have to thank
ww1614 for the link. It just made my admiration for Kerry grow even more. Call me shallow, but I'm more than a little taken by the man. How can anybody go over this man's record and say he is soft? Perhaps his policies are too liberal for some people's tastes (not liberal enough for others, but such is life) - but call him soft and indecisive? I guess some people are more comfortable with the John Wayne-ish decision making style (shoot first, think later) and may confuse thinking things through with indecisiveness. Just a guess, since I've reached the point where I can't understand how anybody can be blind to this man's intelligence and integrity. Again, maybe he's not a guy who is for you - but to attack him on his war record and decision making skills? No, I can't get it. Couldn't before, can't at all now.
Each day to facilitate the process by which the United States washes her hands of Vietnam someone has to give up his life so that the United States doesn't have to admit something that the entire world already knows, so that we can't say that we have made a mistake. Someone has to die so that President Nixon won't be, and these are his words, "the first President to lose a war."
We are asking Americans to think about that because how do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake? But we are trying to do that, and we are doing it with thousands of rationalizations...
Note: It scares me how this fits with what is going on today - 33 years later.
