He is going to fuck this up so hard. Twenty-one years of hosting The Daily Show did not count as experience for running the country, no matter how many political books he’d read and how many sitting heads of state he’d interviewed while doing it. One even-less-than-half-assed campaign didn’t make him any more acquainted with all the little nuances ( Read more... )

And another thing: for a good nine-tenths of their campaign, they were all flash and no substance. It was strictly for satirical purposes, to make fun of the way the real candidates’ campaigns were more flash than substance. They hadn’t gotten serious until September, and even then, their aim hadn’t been to win, it had been inflict damage.

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Here’s another thing: he didn’t even like the idea of rulers who are suited to rule because they don’t want to. It was crazy. What was wrong with a little experience? True, the American political system seemed to reward corruption, he’d be the first the scream that message from the rooftops, but it was their system, and it was for the best that the ( Read more... )

Here’s the thing: it’s a joke. It’s always been a joke. He’s a comedian, jokes are what he does. And if he can get Keith Olbermann to apologize when he’s been an especially big dick, and had roughly a quarter of a million people to trample over the Mall, and kind of broke the story of the nuclear material being brought from corrupt Russians, and ( Read more... )