{"id":280,"date":"2010-11-13T21:51:04","date_gmt":"2010-11-14T01:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cbracy\/?p=280"},"modified":"2010-11-13T21:51:04","modified_gmt":"2010-11-14T01:51:04","slug":"jon-stewart-is-losing-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cbracy\/2010\/11\/13\/jon-stewart-is-losing-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Stewart is Losing Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sigh.\u00a0 I love Jon Stewart.\u00a0 I think he&#8217;s hilarious.\u00a0 I spent considerable money, and time I should have been using to write papers, to go to DC last month for his rally.\u00a0 But after watching <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/26315908\/\/vp\/40141311#40141311\">this video of him with Maddow<\/a> I&#8217;m starting to think he&#8217;s drinking too much of his own kool-aid.\u00a0 I really really hate to say it but it&#8217;s almost as if he&#8217;s spotted the opportunity to carve out a niche for himself between MSNBC and Fox, and conviction does not exist in that niche.\u00a0 Watching him twist himself up into knots to relativize GWB&#8217;s pride in waterboarding is painful.\u00a0 GWB himself may or may not be evil&#8211;being the stellar Catholic that I am, I&#8217;m not sure anyone can make that judgment about someone else&#8211;but the act of taking pride in having authorized torture certainly is.\u00a0 If it&#8217;s possible to talk yourself into thinking that it&#8217;s not, then it&#8217;s nothing more than a thought exercise to rationalize away all the evil that&#8217;s ever happened in the world.\u00a0 If Jon Stewart is arguing for a media environment that equivocates on issues like torture in order to maintain decorum&#8230;.I may have to rethink this sanity thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sigh.\u00a0 I love Jon Stewart.\u00a0 I think he&#8217;s hilarious.\u00a0 I spent considerable money, and time I should have been using to write papers, to go to DC last month for his rally.\u00a0 But after watching this video of him with Maddow I&#8217;m starting to think he&#8217;s drinking too much of his own kool-aid.\u00a0 I really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2061,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cbracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cbracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cbracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cbracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2061"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cbracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cbracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cbracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions\/285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cbracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cbracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cbracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}