Jon Stewart on the Election

The former Daily Show host spoke with Charlie Rose on CBS This Morning today. An excerpt from the transcript:

“I thought Donald Trump disqualified himself at numerous points. But there is now this idea that anyone who voted for him is -- has to be defined by the worst of his rhetoric,” Stewart said. “Like, there are guys in my neighborhood that I love, that I respect, that I think have incredible qualities who are not afraid of Mexicans, and not afraid of Muslims, and not afraid of blacks. They’re afraid of their insurance premiums. In the liberal community, you hate this idea of creating people as a monolith. Don’t look as Muslims as a monolith. They are the individuals and it would be ignorance. But everybody who voted for Trump is a monolith, is a racist. That hypocrisy is also real in our country.”

Stewart said America wages a fight “against ourselves” because it is not “natural.”

“Natural is tribal. We’re fighting against thousands of years of human behavior and history to create something that no one’s ever-- that’s what’s exceptional about America and that’s what’s, like, this ain’t easy,” Stewart said. “It’s an incredible thing.”

Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear

Highlights from yesterday's gathering on the National Mall in Washington, hosted by Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert.

Signs seen at the rally:



BTW, Your Head Trucker's favorite, which I saw on some site yesterday but can't find again, looked something like this:

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H A T E S

N A G S

Some interviews among the crowd:



Jon Stewart's closing speech:

Sex and Starvation in South Carolina

A friend brought this Jon Stewart clip to my attention.  Priceless.  And so true.

You Yankee fellas think it's Alabama and Mississippi that are the center of racism, reactionary thinking, and fundamentalism.  Not so.  It's South Carolina, hands down.  There's a reason they were the first state to secede from the Union.  I know, I've lived there - very briefly, thank God.