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comment by mknod
mknod  ·  3452 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Jon Stewart, Jester for the Warfare State by Ryan Calhoun

The idea that George Carlin or Lenny Bruce are some kind of sacrosanct comedians is laughable to me. Carlin regularly made fart and poop jokes (have you SEEN Dogma?) and Bruce eventually went to comedy clubs and READ A NEWSPAPER to the audience. Maybe Mark Russell will be more up this guys ally. The fact is Carlin and Bruce were wrong about a lot of things, but they were comedians. Either Stewart gets to be in this category with them, or you don't get to compare them to Stewart.

Also do you notice how Stewart is calling for a draft not only of military but of Public Works? Lots of countries do this, and you know what I agree. I WISH we had this. I wish we had a year where people drafted to build homes, feed children and shovel old lady's driveways. To parallel this idea with the Iraq war is just being purposefully oblivious to the entire thing he said.