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For anybody who missed it or only saw the edited aired version, the complete Jon Stewart and Mike Huckabee debate on abortion is here. It's nice to see civilized discourse on the issue, though I do think the real problem here is that even with a debate like this, where they're both earnestly trying to discuss without becoming inflammatory, to a certain extent they just don't even understand each other's arguments. (Okay, I'm going to take sides and say that Huckabee doesn't seem to understand Stewart's arguments. He just sort of carries on with his message no matter what Jon says.)
The maddest of props to Jon Stewart not only for doing IMO a great job of presenting his side of the argument, but also for pointing out from the outset that once again they're debating an issue which doesn't touch either of them. (Last time it was gay marriage.) I do think it's too bad that Jon couldn't truly make his point about in-vitro fertilization because apparently Huckabee has no idea how it's done. (For every successful IVF there are a ridiculous number of fertilized eggs -- which by Huckabee's definition are human beings which should be afforded equal protection under the law -- which are unneeded and are discarded. I think that's where Jon was going with the argument, but got sidetracked by the fact that embryonic experiments were needed to make IVF even possible.)
Anyway, it's good and you should watch it. But not if you're easily enraged or anything, because you might want to punch somebody. (Not Jon, though. You can punch Huckabee, but Stewart is under my protection.)
In related news, apparently the Obama administration's legal team is arguing that the law needs to protect Cheney from... The Daily Show? Yes, because the people we really need to protect are our politicians. From... comedians. And basically, the rest of the world will get what's coming to it.
I'm not even going to get into how deeply and profoundly disappointed I am with a lot of what this administration's doing. Change, my ass. This is why I can never bring myself to get involved or volunteer for political causes: because I'm not sure that a politician exists who doesn't turn out to be kind of an asshat in the end. I'm not expecting perfection, here. Just a little moral uprightness would be nice. Perhaps in future the President can stop before making a major decision and think to himself... "What would Benton Fraser do?"
In other news, have you ever noticed how The Postal Service and Death Cab for Cutie and The Decemberists occasionally all sound like the same band? I have.
Additionally, how come none of this made it into that silly Jared Padalecki movie? Oh, Thomas Kincade, you're such a douchebag. You totally didn't deserve to be portrayed by somebody as adorable as Jared Padalecki, for srs.
THE END.
The maddest of props to Jon Stewart not only for doing IMO a great job of presenting his side of the argument, but also for pointing out from the outset that once again they're debating an issue which doesn't touch either of them. (Last time it was gay marriage.) I do think it's too bad that Jon couldn't truly make his point about in-vitro fertilization because apparently Huckabee has no idea how it's done. (For every successful IVF there are a ridiculous number of fertilized eggs -- which by Huckabee's definition are human beings which should be afforded equal protection under the law -- which are unneeded and are discarded. I think that's where Jon was going with the argument, but got sidetracked by the fact that embryonic experiments were needed to make IVF even possible.)
Anyway, it's good and you should watch it. But not if you're easily enraged or anything, because you might want to punch somebody. (Not Jon, though. You can punch Huckabee, but Stewart is under my protection.)
In related news, apparently the Obama administration's legal team is arguing that the law needs to protect Cheney from... The Daily Show? Yes, because the people we really need to protect are our politicians. From... comedians. And basically, the rest of the world will get what's coming to it.
I'm not even going to get into how deeply and profoundly disappointed I am with a lot of what this administration's doing. Change, my ass. This is why I can never bring myself to get involved or volunteer for political causes: because I'm not sure that a politician exists who doesn't turn out to be kind of an asshat in the end. I'm not expecting perfection, here. Just a little moral uprightness would be nice. Perhaps in future the President can stop before making a major decision and think to himself... "What would Benton Fraser do?"
In other news, have you ever noticed how The Postal Service and Death Cab for Cutie and The Decemberists occasionally all sound like the same band? I have.
Additionally, how come none of this made it into that silly Jared Padalecki movie? Oh, Thomas Kincade, you're such a douchebag. You totally didn't deserve to be portrayed by somebody as adorable as Jared Padalecki, for srs.
THE END.