{"id":51344,"date":"2015-02-17T12:00:40","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T18:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=51344"},"modified":"2015-02-17T06:40:31","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T12:40:31","slug":"funnier-than-thou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=51344","title":{"rendered":"Funnier Than Thou"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the Middle East spirals into war, the economic “recovery” continues to enrich Wall Street but skip Payne Avenue, and the national debt stands ready to leap from “OMFG that’s high!” to “OMFFFFFG that’s really murtha-farging high!”, our nation’s political class is deeply enthralled with the departure of cable TV star Jon Stewart from\u00a0The Daily Show<\/em>, and What It All Means.<\/p>\n

Oliver Morrison at\u00a0The Atlantic<\/em>\u00a0confims my thesis that nobody named “Oliver” who isn’t also named “Wendell Holmes” or “Hazard Perry” ever did anything worthwhile, in this bit of brow-furrowing and navel-gazing over why there’s no “conservative Jon Stewart”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’m not going to bother pull-quoting the article a whole lot; the guy’s name is Oliver, for chrissake. \u00a0There’s really one big thing you need to know about the article.<\/p>\n

The One Big Thing You Need To Know About The Article<\/strong>: \u00a0It’s wrong.<\/p>\n

Three Theses<\/strong>: \u00a0To be fair, Morrison takes a game whack at it; the piece is unexpectedly short on much overt condescension and patronization. \u00a0Morrison thinks there are three potential reasons that there’s no “conservative Jon Stewart”:<\/p>\n