Positive Liberty

Punditry is generally trite and boring these days. Cable TV news must’ve ruined it. Jon Stewart, on “The Daily Show,” can demonstrate, with a handful of clips, that Capitol Hill culture is an echo chamber. Little original thought flows out. They just mimic each other. It’s so bad it appears someone writes the scripts for all the networks and their routine pundits.

But even Jon Stewart can become part of the echo chamber.

Jon Stewart suggested that Bill Clinton’s response to the question, “Is Barack Obama ready?” (which, by the way, was “You could argue that no one is ready for that job”) was the work of a passive-aggressive ass. (If you click the link, the relevant part starts at 2:20).

Jon wasn’t joking. It was what everyone in the media was saying, minus the cuss word. But there is another plausible explanation. It’s so novel that it’s amazing that it’s been overlooked in the DC echo chamber… Continue Reading »