"The Blood of Patriots": Jon Stewart on Tucson

Watch this.  All of this.  Especially after this.  Thank you, Jon.  The established media and political punditocracy lose their senses, and the only sensible, insightful man in the room is a comedian who takes a serious turn.

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Quote of the Day: In the Aftermath of Tucson

This sums up the excesses of both Right and Left in their response to the Tucson shooting:

How do you take one of the most shocking and revolting murder sprees in memory and make it even more disturbing? By immediately pouncing on its supposed root causes for the most transparently partisan of gains.

Read also this and this.  At least the public doesn't seem to buying the crazy media spin, which has been -- let's be honest -- pretty bad.  OK, really bad, as in Paul Krugman bad (via Insta-Prof).


UPDATE:  Watch this.