I’m so pissed off at the way the media is churning the swift boat issue over and over this past week or so. Josh Marshall has a lot of good stuff about it as usual along with the guys at Pandagon. Jon Stewart had the ultimate comment last night, though. I need to find a way to easily transfer stuff from my Time Warner-owned DVR so that I can post clips and not have to rely on Lisa Rein all of the time.
Anyway, Stewart commented on a appearance by Bush-Cheney campaign manager Ken Mehlmen on Meet the Press this past weekend. Mehlmen was refuting an article in the NY Times showing ties to those responsible for the swift boat ads and Bush. I don’t have the exact quote, but he compared the article to the old Kevin Bacon game about six degrees of separation. Stewart ran with it, trying to see how many steps it would take him to get from Bush to the ads. The first attempt went: Bush to Karl Rove, his top advisor, to Bob Perry, the main financer of the ads. Stewart was very pleased with himself and tried to do better. Starting with Bush, he went to Ken Cordier, who was a member of his campaign’s steering committee for veterans until the link was pointed out and he resigned. Stewart happily exclaimed that he had done it in one degree. He followed that with something to the effect of:
Hey, I’m really good at connecting the dots. You want to know something? I tried to play that game linking Saddam to Al Qaeda. It’s much harder.
Yep. Love that Jon Stewart.
They followed that up with a segment with Rob Corddry who speculated that the swift boat issue wasn’t going away anytime soon due to the appearance of a new group: Drunken Stateside Sons of Privilege for Plausible Deniability.
John Kerry will be their guest tonight.