Speaking of Comedy Central pundits, this month is the Colbert Report's last month on the air.
It's finally episode will air on December 18th.
So Colbert is really pulling out all of the stops and will broadcast from Washington D.C. on Monday. His guest will be a certain President of the United States, which I think indicates the kinds of people who are fans of the show.
These two shows have often served as an oasis of sanity during incredibly divisive times, and I for one will be incredibly sad to see one of them coming to an end.
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ReplyDeleteYour last sentence says it for both of us. Sometimes the first reaction is to laugh - and then the sadness sets in and you are left wondering "what the ---- is going on with these people? I am elderly - but not insane!! I still have an incredible ability to decipher what is going on in the political arena. Don't even want to talk about how religion has taken over that part of our lives!!
The only thing I can hope is that the saturation point has been reached - perhaps a curve toward reality??
Pat Padrnos
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ReplyDeleteJon Stewart is certainly the only visible "oasis of sanity" in this country right now. My husband and I, both white senior citizens, talked about our few interactions (thank God) with the police and we felt totally intimidated by them.
ReplyDeleteWhen my mother-in-law died at our home many years ago, local county sheriff guys showed up and camped out in our living room until I got home from work. Why? They didn't believe that my husband in whose house the death (from extreme old age) had occurred lived there because he did not have his driver's license with him. I had it in my purse. I had taken my husband very early in the morning for a test at a local hospital and had kept his wallet and then forgot to leave it at home when I dropped him off to sleep off the anesthesia. This is a long story but it shows how un-user-friendly local police were even twenty years ago. In fact, when I showed the sheriff my driver's license he complained that my hair wasn't brown as in the photo but was more grey. I bit my tongue. I was so relieved when the coroner phoned and said he didn't need to come by because it was obviously a death by natural causes and the funeral home people could proceed with their job. It was a very sad day for us but do you think that any of the sheriff guys who stressed us incredibly bothered to express any kind of condolences? Of course not.
I've always been willing to pay millage increases for local police but I refuse to contribute to any of the multitudinous benevolent organizations that call for money. From now on, I'm tempted to say that I might reconsider when the police stop using excessive force on innocent people. Police are supposed to protect, not murder.
Beaglemom
I can't imagine, at a time of such deep grief and sorrow, you were mistreated by those whom we should be able to count on for help. I had a similar experience when my father passed. He chose home hospice care. We were treated like common criminals, every pill, syringe, and speck of medicine had to be accounted for, then we waited six hours for them to pronounce him. Long story short, we sat in our home with his corpse for close to eight hours so they could go through their counts. There was one pill unaccounted for and they thought we were selling them on the street. What's the going rate for a low dose baby aspirin on the street these days? Compassion costs nothing but can make a world of difference.
DeleteYou're so right about "An oasis of sanity". Some days when there's too much to deal with on the news, I tune both of them in and can count on them to somehow find a way to make me smile or laugh.
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