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Egyptian president Morsi, who is thugging his way along a path of repression and regression got mugged last night. In a brilliant bit of "in your face" diplomacy, comedian and commentator Jon Stewart decimated the Muslim Brotherhood zealot. Stewart defended his friend
Bassem Youssef, who has been called the Egyptian Jon Stewart.
Stewart's work, especially the last couple of minutes of the bit, beautifully demonstrates the difference between a nation of freedom and a place where zealots and fundamentalists would seek to blot free expression.
This Washington Post piece provides good context, explanation and a link to Stewart's masterful defense of freedom.
The visual quality is not quite as good, but this YouTube video also reprises the powerful performance.
Do yourself a favor, spend a few minutes being entertained and come to see how precarious freedom can be.
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Stewart is brilliant and so is his staff of writers. Colbert's show is wonderful, too. Love the Cali pix!
ReplyDeleteSpring has evidently come to central California and you've captured it beautifully. And I enjoyed the Jon Stewart video. Nothing is funnier than the truth.
ReplyDeleteStewart: incisive and funnnny. Colbert and Maher: very entertaining and risk-taking. But all are marginalized by their small-potato outlets. Where are the big hitters with broad outlets when we need them? In these crucial/critical times, where is our Mencken, Twain, Rogers, Walt Kelly, Lehrer, Southern, Chaplin, Bruce, Vonnegut, Capp, Vidal, Brooks? The heavy hitting political satirists. We seem over-loaded with social satirists, who are fun, but not what the nation and world need.
ReplyDeleteStewart is a freaking Genius!
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