March 13, 2009

Snake Oil

I am no politico, but who can turn aside when the message is so clear? And what better agent than John Stewart?  Stewart has the voice, the platform, the balls and the brains. I feel a sense of relief that what I knew, but could never articulate…as snake oil does, so snake oil begets.

Andrew Sullivan writes:

What Cramer walked into was an ambush of anger. He crumbled from the beginning. From then on, with the almost cruel broadcasting of his earlier glorifying of financial high-jinks, you almost had to look away. This was, in my view, a real cultural moment. It was a storming of the Bastille. It was, as Fallows notesjournalism.

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  1. [...] Jon Stewart’s re-arrangement of Cramer (as did I); Ms. Cantwell has links to those videos in another of her posts. What is more, in a post about Werner Herzog she’s got a link to a base-jumping video (one of [...]

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