Governor Mike Huckabee is one of many politicians positioning himself to fill the current power vacuum in the Republican Party. Last night The Daily Show with Jon Stewart devoted almost half its running time to and interview with Huckabee and almost half of said interview to a civil discussion of gay marriage.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Chris Matthews and Bill O’Reilly should hang their heads in shame. Once again the so-called cable NEWS networks have been shown by COMEDY Central how a reasonable debate between two people with opposing political views can and should look: penetrating questions and time for thoughtful answers, not two or three partisan hacks trying to see who can yell the most talking points in a five to seven minute sound byte.
It’s obvious that Keith Olbermann has been trying to cop Jon Stewart’s satirical hustle, but it seems he only watches the first half of the show with the monologues and sketches, not the second half which features the interview segments. Memo to Keith: You’ll never be as funny as Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert. The problem is we’ve got so called journalist trying to be comedians and the comedians are doing a better job of being journalists.
Don’t get me wrong, I love Don Marsh from St. Louis on the Air and Ed Bishop of the St. Louis Journalism Review, but I’m really sick of these old media codgers lamenting how some young people get all their news from The Daily Show and The Colbert Report without ever at least acknowledging that they are at least as god if not a better source of news that many of the primetime shows on Fox and MSNBC.