Una verdad simulada

Norm Jenson annotates all of his Daily Show posts with the statement that forms the title of this post. This week, TDS aired some of its older episodes. For your viewing pleasure, here is Jon Stewart interviewing John Bolton, the past ambassador to UN. John Bolton made some really incredulous and some factually incorrect statements. In the next episode, Jon Stewart brought on Doris Kearns Goodwin (author of “Team of Rivals” a book on Abraham Lincoln) to call on the bullshit by ambassador Bolton.

I am not saying that the Daily Show is factually correct. In fact, the journalistically proper way to do it would be to have Bolton defend his statement. However, he did what a lot of news shows ought to do (and unfortunately don’t): call out politicians’ bullshit and go beyond the soundbites that they spew.

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