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The Daily Show juxtaposes George W. Bush’s 2000 acceptance speech with John McCain’s and exposes striking similarities.
On its final night of “covering” the Republican National Convention, The Daily Show kicked off the final 59 days of this election with two masterpieces of video archiving and editing. First, Steward cuts together a clip that shows McCain repeating many of the same empty promises that were made by George W. Bush in 2000 on issues like changing the tone of Washington D.C., fixing our failed education system, and bipartisanship. McCain even echoes Bush’s smaller details like a promise to share credit with the Democrats for all of the great things he plans to do.
The second is a mini-documentary that tells the story of McCain’s tragic fall from a free thinker to a partisan drone, starting in 2006 when he embraced the very same hate mongers he’d once referred to as “agents of intolerance”. He panders to the base by changing (some might say flip-flopping) his positions on both abortion and Bush’s tax cuts. And he contradicts himself about the Iraq war.
McCain has appeared on The Daily Show many times. Stewart clearly respects him, and you can see hints of reluctance after the first clip. McCain has sacrificed his integrity and succumbed to the dark side of partisan, neoconservative politics, all of which is driven by blind ambition. He must be defeated in November. If the economy is any indication, the Democrats should have it in the bag. Then again, no party is better at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory than the Dems.
4 responses so far ↓
1 Franke James // Sep 6, 2008 at 8:50 am
11pm is past my bedtime so I don’t usually stay up to watch Jon Stewart. But I may have to change my habits… To see how Jon nails Pitbull Palin & McCain is hilarious and brilliant. And absolutely worth watching. Thanks for drawing my attention to it. With Jon’s satire there is hope that US voters will wake up to the messy, wasteful, bloody truth of the 8-yr Bush legacy, and realize that ‘McCain is more of the same’.
2 David // Sep 6, 2008 at 9:29 am
@Franke: He’s so good, that TDS gets replayed all the time. Try watching last night’s at 8pm the next night. Or get a damn Tivo.
3 Franke James // Sep 6, 2008 at 9:50 am
@David
Thanks — we foolishly pride ourselves on not watching much TV, but there is some like Jon Stewart that is ‘must-see’. Good point on the TIVO. I have no excuses…
4 politikly.com | politics and world news // Sep 7, 2008 at 7:53 am
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