Friday, November 16, 2012

Later, Beav. Ya' never even existed.

This clip from last night's Daily Show is a brilliant piece of media criticism (if Fox news still qualifies) and a reminder that history isn't just something that happened before our time; it's still happening, and will continue to happen, every moment that a society, civilized enough to keep some record of its existence, manages to survive. It seems that Jon Stewart and his writers are the only ones calling it in real time -- well, in entertaining and easily digestible video format, anyway.

I love how Stewart cuts Bill O'Reilly and Bernie Goldberg down in such a way that we just "awww, how cute" at them like caricatures as adorably irrelevant as the Muppets' Statler and Waldorf, the two old coots blathering and bemoaning from the balcony seats about the inevitable end of their era as the American ruling class.

Oh, and the clip is damn funny too. Pairs well with "Lincoln."


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