Hey, Jon Stewart, Here's Some Insanity
"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness..."
- Allen Ginsberg, HOWLThings that are insane:* War* Wall Street bailouts* Working class white people following Beck on Murdoch * That corporations can run our elections* That water is being privatized
* That advertisers can target children* That people in D.C., where you're having your rally, don't get a real vote in Congress
* That the establishment solution for D.C. not having a vote in Congress is to unconstitutionally give it and Utah a vote, while denying the people of D.C. representation in the Senate * That our government invaded Iraq for totally bogus reasons* That virtually no one has been held to account for that * That you've had pleasant chats on your show with people who should have been held to account for that, like recently, Condi Rice* That your show just chugged along during the build up for war and never blew the whistle
* That you actually spent much of 2002 and 2003 making fun of the weapons inspectors in Iraq
* That Colbert went to Iraq for two weeks and did an interview with only one Iraqi -- a Kurdish separatist
* That Obama can't acknowledge that Israel has nuclear weapons
* That virtually no one comments on Obama refusing to acknowledge that Israel has nuclear weapons
* Military occupations
* Alliances with dictators and absolute monarchies
* That broadcasters claim they are serving the "public interest" as part of the condition of them getting broadcast spectrum
* That there are no significant mass movements in the U.S.
* That you mock or ignore those who might be trying to change that