Joanna
2008-06-20 12:19:27
David Wynn: The Daily Show is more dangerous than it seems, in my opinion: Laugh, and you’re in with the cool kids. Don’t laugh, and you have to go sit with the band kids and the A/V club. (No offense meant to either group, it’s just that they’re typically not the “popular” crowd.) I have no doubt that if you challenged John Stewart to his face, he’d gladly debate you — but his audience would boo and heckle and automatically discount everything you say unless he himself conceded that you had a point. The problem isn’t with the host, it’s with the slavish, mindless devotion of his followers.
