"The Stranger Among Us": According to Tony Snow, President Bush spent his summer reading Albert Camus' The Stranger. "Now, if you've never read The Stranger, it's a classic novel about a Westerner who kills an Arab for no good reason and dies with no remorse." HA! Wow, I spent the entirity of last year working on a project about that book and I didn't even make that immediate connection. What a waste.Senior White House Correspondent Jason Jones elaborated on Bush's summer reading. Apparently, the president was actually catching up on his 9th grade syllabus. In addition to The Stranger (which he deemed a "quick read"), he read Catcher In The Rye, half of Treasure Island, and Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
After the foiled terror plot over in Britain, the media has been doing a lot of crazy stuff to try and calm us down... Like, trying to scare us shitless. CNN has been running "Target: USA" segments about all the different ways that terrorists can sneak dangerous items onto planes, but, y'know, not that they're trying to give out ideas or anything. One reporter tried out one of Heathrow Airport's new scanning devices, which shows everything. He even had to wear a metal plate in his pants to hide his private parts. Jon demonstrated that he was way ahead of CNN by knocking on his metal crotch. Haha, nice...
"Those Who Hate US Weekly": Since the failure of his Taepodong II (insert childish snickering here), the world hasn't seen much of Kim Jong-Il. Well, as it turns out, he's been quite busy working on his upcoming film, Diary of a Mad Black Woman Student Girl, and inspecting cheese. As for Fidel Castro, he's been slowly recovering, eating pudding in bed. He even held up the day's paper in a picture for the press to show that he's really still alive. TDS demonstrated how this picture could have been easily doctored. Okay, that picture of Fidel in a bikini was really unnecessary. How do they expect me to sleep at night?!
The night's guest was Governor Thomas Kean, author of Without Precedent: The Inside Story of the 9/11 Commission. Pretty straightforward interview about the always-fun bureaucracy.
Jon/Stephen: Stephen Colbert talked about the dangers of fear-mongering and scare tactics... "scare tactics that can kill you and your children." Moment of Zen: Thank goodness for metal plates in the pants.
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8-17-2006 @ 2:01PM
Elliott: A Jon Stewart Fan in the Midst said...
Every since you pointed it out on your recap of the August 14th show I've noticed that using a "metaphor + colon" title is less of a fad/trend and more of an epidemic. I'm going to go out of my way to ensure that I never title another essay, email, google search, or child in that manner ever again.
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8-17-2006 @ 2:36PM
Ytoabn said...
Screw that, I'm totally naming my next kid that way....
Scott Smith: The Seed of my Loins
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8-17-2006 @ 4:22PM
Karen said...
I was really disappointed in the Kean interview. Kean's been all over the news shows lately, talking about how concerned the 9/11 panel had been that Pentagon and NORAD staff had been lying to them, and that the timeline of events on the morning of 9/11 itself did not seem to match the events that were released for public consumption. The panel members even considered referring the whole mess to the Justice Department for criminal investigation, but in the end just reported their concerns to inspectors general in Transportation and Defense, which of course went nowhere.
This was reported in the Washington Post on August 3, and the transcripts of NORAD tapes reporting activity on 9/11 were published in this month's Vanity Fair.
So Kean has been all over the airwaves talking about this, and Jon never even brings it up?
Yeah, that was disappointing.
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