{"id":10585,"date":"2010-10-14T09:01:54","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T07:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ankegroener.de\/?p=10585"},"modified":"2010-10-14T09:01:54","modified_gmt":"2010-10-14T07:01:54","slug":"america-is-a-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ankegroener.de\/blog\/?p=10585","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;America is a joke&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sehr sch\u00f6nes <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/print\/?\/arts\/tv\/profiles\/68086\/\">Portr\u00e4t<\/a> \u00fcber Jon Stewart und die <em>Daily Show<\/em>, wie sie gemacht wird und welchen Einfluss sie inzwischen hat. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/diegestundetezeit.twoday.net\/20100916\/\">Die gestundete Zeit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The Obama presidency was supposed to spell doom\u2014or at least irrelevance\u2014for Bush-satirizing comics like Stewart and his prot\u00e9g\u00e9 Stephen Colbert. But a funny thing happened and is continuing to happen. Stewart is as essential as ever. Lately the show has been on a hot streak, exposing anti-mosque demagogues and carving up spineless Democrats. One of the lessons of the recent past is that the circus is in town no matter who is in the White House, which, while far from ideal for the state of our nation, has only increased the standing of a satirist like Stewart. Creating consistently funny and barbed bits four nights a week is extremely difficult, and not only because Stewart has to fend off the adulation of an audience that wasn\u2019t entirely kidding with those STEWART\/COLBERT \u201908 bumper stickers. Constant exposure to the muck of politics can easily, and quickly, produce cynicism. Yet immersion in the political-media mess has left Stewart at once more bitter and more idealistic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven if you\u2019re eating delicious chocolate cake, there are moments you feel like, \u2018I\u2019ve had too much,\u2019\u2009\u201d Stewart says. \u201cNow replace \u2018chocolate cake\u2019 with \u2018shit taco\u2019 and you know what our day is like every day. But this is not a fragile country. I\u2019m not suggesting we couldn\u2019t find ourselves in deep conflict. But we had slaves, and we fought a civil war; now we\u2019re down to Glenn Beck being hyperbolic with his audience about nostalgia. This too shall pass.\u201d Which doesn\u2019t mean that Stewart is so confident in the inexorable triumph of good and right that he\u2019s going to stop ridiculing the evildoers and charlatans.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sehr sch\u00f6nes Portr\u00e4t \u00fcber Jon Stewart und die Daily Show, wie sie gemacht wird und welchen Einfluss sie inzwischen hat. Via Die gestundete Zeit. &#8220;The Obama presidency was supposed to spell doom\u2014or at least irrelevance\u2014for Bush-satirizing comics like Stewart and his prot\u00e9g\u00e9 Stephen Colbert. But a funny thing happened and is continuing to happen. Stewart [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ankegroener.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ankegroener.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ankegroener.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ankegroener.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ankegroener.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ankegroener.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10586,"href":"https:\/\/ankegroener.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10585\/revisions\/10586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ankegroener.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ankegroener.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ankegroener.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}