Stewart not Stalwart

So, I'm sitting here pondering the events in my life both large and small and trying to reflect.

My first statement is that I cannot wait for the g1 to obtain flash capability so I can expunge the interwebs from my pc all together. I loathe at times how distracted I end up when I'm trying to write at my desktop/laptop. I believe the internet is good in small doses. Take twitter versus spending an hour browsing through people's facebooks as an example.

On darker notes, I have to jump into an arena I try to avoid with every fiber of my being. Politics. What makes it worse is that I have to expose one of my "heroes" (and I use that term loosely), Jon Stewart. You could label me as left wing, and I would agree unconditionally. I've long preached that communism is one of the best forms of government (on paper and in theory only) and as such would follow Stewart's liberal take on state affairs. Plus, he's funny as hell. Or at least his writing staff is.

So as I watched the epic Kramer interview, it occurred to me that Stewart, in essence has become his own worst enemy. Far and long has Stewart accused news broadcast organizations of being bias and disingenuous. But has that solved anything? Crossfire's reputation was utterly destroyed after Stewart's interview and I'm curious to see the affects for Mad Money, but as demonstrated, Stewart is no fool, regardless of how Bill O'Reilly would try to say otherwise.
In fact, it's the obvious where most "stoners" tune into the Colbert Report, a more light-hearted mockery that takes the strengths of the daily show and runs on the nitrous that it's anchor's charisma wields. The show isn’t so much about exposing flawed news clips of the day at is giving open theater time for Colbert’s quasi-improv act.

For years now Stewart has defended his position that it's not his responsibility and that he is a comedian first. But funny man or not, he is in a position of influence, albeit small or not, and therefore has a mandated position of accountability himself to not merely present the problem in a larger light, but attempt to obtain a solution at the same time. I myself am not sure what exactly that would pertain, but to quote that all it takes for evil to win is for good men to do nothing rings a bell. Personally, I think Stewart would be afraid he would suffer ratings drop off or career suicide/failure. A shame that for someone who tries to open people’s eyes to the bigger picture, he can’t make the leap himself.