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Sorry, reading 1984 has caused some newspeak to get jammed in my brain (don't know what that means? Go to the library and alert the DoJ of your thoughtcrimes pick up Orwell's classic today!). Anyway, some buzz on Kos made me tune into last night's Daily Show at 10am (missing the first half of my new favorite show, Live with Regis and Kelly). It was as good as promised. The beginning devoted some time to playing video gotcha with the Vice President which was absolutely beautiful in it's hilarity. The guest was Stephen Hayes, whose Weekly Standard article "Case Closed" was assigned in a class I took last semester as proof of Saddam and Osama's collaborative efforts at killing us. I argued in class that the article, 50 items of varying levels of credibility (ranging from "it's not 100% unprovable" to "directly contradicted by other (ignored) information"), put together by neocon shill Undersecretary of Defense Doug Feith, was not exactly something to be sending Americans to their deaths for. The professor was very fair about listening, though one classmate had a great look of incredulity that I would in any way doubt the altruistic intentions of the administration. Future classes will be able to read a small book that grew out of that article, which author Hayes was on the D-Show to promote. Jon Stewert ripped him a new one. It's absolutely amazing to watch Stewart interview his political guests. He knows what he is talking about, asks real questions, and is not afraid to call "bullshit" on sound bite answers. It seems to me that his position is that the media's job is not to arbitrate arguments between the ideologues of a particular issue, but to expose the truth, to separate rhetoric from reality and ask questions of the powerful on behalf of those of us without the ability to do so. I'm a fan of this position. Nowadays it seems as if too much "news" is only reporting what someone said, and the veracity of the statement is never considered. I'm constantly reminded of Paul Krugman's half-joking assertion that if the Bush administration said the world was flat headlines the next day would read "Opinions About Shape of Earth Differ." It's not just the Bush administration, the press treats every controversy in the same manner (though the run-up to the Iraq war is particulary illustrative of the uncritical nature of the modern mainstream media). Catch it again at 7pm tonight, then a new one at 11pm. Seriously, Most Important Show on Television.