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 ‘Daily Show’: Get on the Sanity BusPosted on Oct 26, 2010
As the day fast approaches when lots and lots of Americans will converge in Washington, D.C., for Jon Stewart’s Rally to Restore Sanity, three “Daily Show” envoys round up six special Americans to join them as they ride to the rally on the sanity bus. —KA Comedy Central:
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By tdbach, October 27, 2010 at 8:54 am Link to this comment
Hello?
McTN? Robespierre?
This is satire, not community organization, not a coherent thesis on political ideas. Its job is to mock our foibles – in this case the carnival of extremism masquerading as populism and political discourse we have going on these days.
And satire isn’t about not taking sides, though. It’s all about taking sides. They just don’t happen to align very clearly with (D) or (R). Satire promotes – sometimes passionately – our better angels by ridiculing our lesser ones. It hopes to break through our defenses and open our eyes through laughter.
Does this rally and the little vignettes like this one work as satire?
I think so.
Report thisBy Robespierre115, October 27, 2010 at 4:09 am Link to this comment
What a joke these celebrities, they just offer dumbed down, easily digestable games without offering any real debate on anything. With this laughable rally Stewart is being a poster boy for the sad culture that dominates politics right now where young people are taught to not take sides on anything, or grow a pair and take on the status quo, instead it all focuses on “being nice” and “centrist.” This is how why the right-wing will keep kicking our limousine liberal butts.
Report thisBy McTN, October 26, 2010 at 10:42 pm Link to this comment
I have a problem with this recent trend of tv and media personalities acting like community activists. While I don’t doubt Stewart’s, or Arianna’s, or Big Ed’s sincerity, they are media personalities that benefit from these turnouts by proving “market share.” They can say “see how many people turned out for my rally, how is that for ratings; give me a bigger contract, give me more money.”
I like watching the Daily Show, but a community activist in my mind is someone like Martin Luther King or someone representing an organization that works with community members on the basis of a program and a mission.
Of course, it’s dangerous being a community activist in this country since they’ve been regularly assasinated, but I just find it hard to accept the leadership of Jon Stewart or Arianna Huffington. Is the tv age so powerful that we’re going to also view them as the new social leaders?
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