Why You Should Get Cable:

Jon Stewart.

I'm a Broadcast Television kind of guy. It's free. All ya need is a TV and an antenna and it's there. The picture may not be so pretty, but there you have it. Local news. Entertainment. Maybe a PBS station if you're lucky. No real price for admission.

But The Daily Show isn't there because it's only available on cable. Surely you know The Daily Show . If you don't, you definitely should. In fact, Daily Show virgins should go here. The web site has all kinds of clickable video pieces which will show you the outstanding writing, the unique Stewart style, and the individual bizarrity of their various "reporters." It's all fake news, and all quite funny.

Tonight's episode showed a Town Meeting that President Bush held in...Maryland, I believe. The subject was Social Security reform, and strangely every one of the people in the town meeting supported Bush's plan. Several clips were shown, and of course the President, operating in a crowd of Bush-loving devotees, had that cocksure Chimpy McFlightsuit demeanor that rubs so many of us the wrong way.

But I digress...what kind of country have we become wherein we actually accept an alleged Town Meeting where everyone has been pre-screened to reflect the president's view? That's NOT a Town Meeting. It's a pep rally. It's a Republican infomercial. Why can't we in the media, instead of swallowing label of "town meeting," make the fact that it was not a town meeting an issue? An inquisitive and skeptical media would ask and re-ask the President to have a real town meeting wherein a diversity of opinion was represented, and wherein the President can assuage real people's misgivings.

But alas: that inquisitive and skeptical press is on life support, so we have to rely on fake news programs like The Daily Show to point out how ludicrous the event was. It's a sad truth, but news that's intentionally fake is far better than fake news that is intended to be believed as presented...