Rothschild: Stewart Ignored "Odiousness of Fox"

Matthew Rothschild

From Progressive.org - Because it was stale. Because it was sappy. Because it was self-important. Because it was platitudinous. Because it minimized the hideousness of some of the tea partiers and it blurred the odiousness of Fox. Because it was politically meaningless and thereby a diversion at just the wrong time. Because it was a mix of a high school graduation speech and a bad country western song, with too few jokes tossed in. When Stewart said, “We can have animus and not be enemies,” he was parroting President Obama, who has said, repeatedly, “We can disagree without being disagreeable.” A big part of Obama’s problem in governing is he failed to grasp the degree of disagreeableness he was going to face, so it was peculiar to hear Stewart reinvoke this mantra, as though what we need is more niceness in this country—as opposed to better organizing, or better messaging, or better mobilizing for a better vision. Read here:

Rothschild: Stewart Ignored "Odiousness of Fox"