VIDEO: That Time Jon Stewart Showed a Juan Cole Clip on al-Qaida
Jon Stewart is the most brilliant man on television, and Steve Colbert said it well: that we’ve all learned “how to do our jobs” from him—our job being to be critical consumers of information and news.This post originally ran on Juan Cole’s website.
Jon Stewart is the most brilliant man on television, and Steve Colbert said it well, that we’ve all learned from him “how to do our jobs” — the job being to be a critical consumer of information and news. Not having him to turn to at 11 pm four nights a week will leave a gaping hole in our lives. But I guess he figures that if we disciples haven’t learned from him how to think for ourselves by now, we never will. Happy trails, Jon.
I never had the honor to be a guest on Jon’s show, but he did once use a clip of me from Aljazeera America, and that’s something I’ll cherish. (I was on the Colbert Report, the other half of Comedy Central’s 11-12 comedic news hour). Here it goes …
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