The World’s Unfairness Is A Sisyphean Burden On Us All

A Canadian Jon Stewart fan is miffed at being “snubbed”:

Hell hath no fury like a Jon Stewart fan scorned. A Canadian Jon Stewart fan? Well, that’s like bitter times infinity, because while we have the charismatic Barack Obama, with his blackness and his dancing on Ellen and his straight-faced puppy talk, they have Stephen Harper, a conservative hockey fan (aren’t they all?) who looks like he wants to sell you this beautiful 1996 Oldsmobile. In other words, you can’t blame Canucks for projecting all their little hopes and dreams southward, feeling like no-one gets them in Winnipeg or Medicine Hat.

In other words, if Harper wins another term we’ll have Geddy Lee and Norm McDonald threatening to move to the US?

So we read with sadness the tale of Sharilyn Johnson, a woman who has traveled from Toronto to New York City to attend Daily Show tapings so many times, she’s on a first-name basis with “Teri” and “Jessica” from the audience department. Yet when she flew down last week for the Daily Show’s Election Night Special, she waited in line and watched as seats filled with VIPs… and then the unthinkable happened: She was turned away at the door. (Only about 21 or so folks got in. Johnson was No. 40 out of about 250.)

[Gratuitous reference to liberal single-payer healthcare plans removed d/t excessive obviousness]

How could this happen?! She reserved her tickets 7 months ago! And she’s the biggest fan ever! And she took vacation days from her job, booked a hotel, and traveled FROM TORONTO (that’s a 52-minute flight!)! Gawker excerpts Johnson’s emotional HuffPo screed about the incident, and here are some context-free highlights: “I am owed,” “robbed of an experience,” “emotionally empty,” and our favorite – sorry, favourite – “How do I stand outside under that awning again?”

I’m trying to think of a one-word summation of the story that links Ms. Johnson’s credulous naivete and liberalism’s corrosive elitism.  I know what I’m shooting for, but I’m coming up zilch.

Help me!

12 thoughts on “The World’s Unfairness Is A Sisyphean Burden On Us All

  1. Wow, that’s kinda like when your grandpa’s a patrician senator from Connecticut and your dad’s president of the U.S. And you went to Yale and Harvard and you just can’t figure out what you want to do with your life. And being a rancher sounds like fun, but that’s a lot of work. And owning a baseball team sounds like super-fun, but that gets boring after a while too. So then you become president, which you’re totally entitled to after all, but that turns out badly too. Plus nobody likes you. And now there’s this black guy who’s going to take your job and his dad wasn’t rich *or* American. Life can be so unfair!

  2. You an Oliver Stone fan, AC?
    I’m totally surprised Stone didn’t have a scene with a young W shooting Kennedy from the Grassy Knoll.
    Have you checked out Krugman’s latest column? His writing is a little more incoherent than usual, but he seems to be calling for Obama to start a world war to stimulate the economy.

    What saved the economy, and the New Deal, was the enormous public works project known as World War II, which finally provided a fiscal stimulus adequate to the economy’s needs.

    This history offers important lessons for the incoming administration.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/10/opinion/10krugman.html?_r=1&oref=login

    Clearly another Nobel is in order.

  3. angryclown rips on lame duck.

    *yawn*

    Maybe you should check and see if Ann Coulter has said something inflammatory recently.

  4. The only prominent Republican available, Trojan Man. The rest are apparently under indictment.

  5. I love fans of all stripes.
    They range from enthusiastic and happy to compulsive and insane… and in most cases extremely entertaining.

    “I am owed”
    lol!!!

  6. “I am owed.”

    “Life’s not fair!”

    To which I tell my kids: The world was here first. It’s older than you. It doesn’t owe you anything and, frankly, it doesn’t care what you feel or think or want. Get over it and get on with life.

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