{"id":189196,"date":"2010-05-07T12:28:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T17:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/05\/07\/jon-stewart-makes-a-very-good-point\/"},"modified":"2010-05-07T12:28:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-07T17:28:00","slug":"jon-stewart-makes-a-very-good-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/05\/07\/jon-stewart-makes-a-very-good-point\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Stewart Makes a Very Good Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; width: 360px; float: right; text-align: center;\"><embed style=\"display: block;\" src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/mgid:cms:item:comedycentral.com:308586\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"window\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" flashvars=\"autoPlay=false\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allownetworking=\"all\" bgcolor=\"#000000\" width=\"360\" height=\"301\"><\/embed><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">See profiling comment at 4:20<\/span><\/div>\n<p>As always.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, he makes a number of them, with the big one being, &#8220;What are we going to do in this country when we get attacked by someone who&#8217;s <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">not<\/span> one of the <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Home Alone<\/span> burgers?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But there is the little point that he makes that I find far more trenchant.<\/p>\n<p>He runs an ad put out by a Teabagger candidate running against Alan Grayson, Dan Fanelli, talking about profiling terrorists, and brings out two men, one swarthy and bearded, and one white and old, which asks <del>&#8220;Where&#8217;s Waldo&#8221;<\/del> which one is the terrorist?<\/p>\n<p>This leads the doyenne of late night news to ask the question himself, &#8220;Which one?  Doctor Kevorkian on the left, or the cast member from <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Jersey Shore<\/span> on the right?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Stewart&#8217;s answer is that the terrorist who flew his plane into the IRS building in Texas looked an <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">awful<\/span> lot like Congressman wannabe Fanelli.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See profiling comment at 4:20 As always. Actually, he makes a number of them, with the big one being, &#8220;What are we going to do in this country when we get attacked by someone who&#8217;s not one of the Home Alone burgers?&#8221; But there is the little point that he makes that I find far &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1000,1135,1002,1076,1027],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-elections","category-energy","category-good-writing","category-terrorism","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189196"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}