Laura @ 45:
Ok, you say you’re looking for an example of Jon Stewart’s good works. From http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/27/daily-shows-stewa_n_93719.html; posted March 2008:
“Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart was in Washington, DC Tuesday night for the USO-Metro Awards Dinner, where the Daily Show host was honored with a Merit Award from Joint Chiefs vice-chair General James Cartwright. If it seems an odd fit for a comic who consistently lampoons the Bush administration, the Washington Post’s Reliable Source informs readers that all the comedic comfort Stewart gives critics of the Iraq War is matched by his efforts to comfort our wounded soldiers: Turns out the comedian has been quietly visiting soldiers at Walter Reed and Bethesda hospitals, trips he began in 2004 to better understand the Iraq war. “I felt that I was living in a world of theory,” he told the audience, “but I hadn’t touched the reality and the humanity of it.” The first patient he met was “funnier than I was” — and Stewart’s been a regular ever since.”
Yep, those Joint Chiefs, they’re just a bunch of libtards–honoring Jon Stewart for comforting soldiers while their commander-in-chief, George W. Bush, was letting Walter Reed rot and become rat-infested.
I’ll take that retraction now, Laura.
Flyingright @ 67: “For the record, there’s a lot that separates Rush Limbaugh from Jon Stewart.”
Yeah. About 400 pounds of Vicodin-infused blubber.
