I was extremely disappointed with the Lee Siegel interview on The Daily Show last week. To recap, Lee Siegel is a writer for the New Republic who wrote some really crappy blog post about Jon Stewart, then sockpuppeted his way through the comments talking about how Lee Siegel is an authentic American hero, and you guyz r totally teh suck, so shut ( Read more... )

Bill Kristol, my absolute favorite pundit in the whole frickin' universe, was on The Daily Show last night. I have to run and watch it RIGHT NOW. Apparently he said that Bush is going to be vindicated because "the economy's been pretty good." This man is a ROCK STAR of ridiculousness. I mean, seriously, does he have ANY credibility left at this ( Read more... )

Sometimes, in my more brainfarty moments, I mix up Harold and Allan Bloom. This is unfortunate, since Allan Bloom was all Straussy, so I should really keep that straight if I'm going to be taken seriously when I blather about neocons. The best way to distinguish between the two? Harold Bloom tried to fuck Naomi Wolf when she was his student. ( Read more... )

The Daily Show and The Colbert Report have returned to the airwaves after nine weeks of strike-induced absence. Neither host wanted to go back on the air without their writers, but their contracts left them with little choice. I watched the first episodes back of both shows. As we were watching them, Segev said, "Do you support the writers ( Read more... )

This might put a crimp in Veronica's shoe budget.

I'm going to miss my Daily Show, but as the daughter of a (former?) WGA member, it's pretty obvious where my sympathies lie. Writers get screwed over in Hollywood, both monetarily and in terms of general respect. Without a script, what do you have? (Don't answer that; we'll see soon enough. Are ( Read more... )

Here is lesson one in why hosting random people's blogs on your political website isn't a great idea if you're running for president -- because semi-literate ramblings about Bill Richardson wanting wolves to eat children will have the words "blog.johnedwards.com" attached to them.

Nothing has been done to protect our children in New Mexico and if ( Read more... )

watched fukuyama on the daily show. besides being sorely disappointed in jon for conflating the total opposites of the monroe doctrine and the bush doctrine (non-intervention in affairs outside the hemisphere as opposed to FIERCE intervention anywhere in the world), i was struck by fukuyama's dropping of the term "benevolent global hegemony" ( Read more... )