Jon Stewart's Epiphany: Has a Comedian Just Saved America?


by Pam Martens
Global Research, March 16, 2009
Counterpunch.org/

*Video of The Daily Show interview listed at the end of article

As testimony to how Orwellian life has become under the outrages of Wall Street hubris, last week saw a comedian, who poses as an anchor on a fake news show, grab the reins of the Wall Street investigation from the actual investigators in Congress.

Either Jon Stewart is the smartest man in America or he has incredible instincts. In a week’s time, he has zeroed in, like a heat-seeking missile, on the core of Wall Street’s malady. How insightful of Stewart, host of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show,â€