{"id":589,"date":"2010-10-07T22:18:29","date_gmt":"2010-10-07T16:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/?p=589"},"modified":"2010-10-07T22:18:29","modified_gmt":"2010-10-07T16:18:29","slug":"on-witches-thugs-and-kooks-or-a-politician-near-you-with-an-apology-of-sorts-to-jon-stewart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/10\/07\/on-witches-thugs-and-kooks-or-a-politician-near-you-with-an-apology-of-sorts-to-jon-stewart\/","title":{"rendered":"On Witches, Thugs, and Kooks: Or a Politician Near You, With an Apology (of sorts) to Jon Stewart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed two good pieces on the (embarrassing) political choices we face in less than a month, Gail Collins in the NY Times, dissecting the weirdness in Connecticut:<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/10\/07\/opinion\/07collins.html?hp, plus another piece, which includes Jon Stewart on <em>The Daily Show<\/em> having fun with Christine O&#8217;Donnell:<br \/>\n<iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"Night Watch: Talk of Witches and an Apology\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/svc\/oembed\/html\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com%2F2010%2F10%2F07%2Fnight-watch-talk-of-witches-and-an-apology%2F#?secret=JjfhbNFVlN\" data-secret=\"JjfhbNFVlN\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nSince everyone seems to be apologizing to someone, I&#8217;ll apologize to Jon Stewart for dissing him, because he made me laugh out loud. You get extra points for laughter, big time.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve actually seen Christy O&#8217;Donnell in some of these sound bites and I can agree that she comes across as a likable-enough airhead, but Good Lord, not for a senator. I love the &#8220;I&#8217;m not a witch. I&#8217;m you&#8221; approach. It should be a slogan for our Wacky 2010 Election. Palatino in New York comes across as a thug, Angle in Nevada as a kook, and now we have a Witch, to boot! The fact that O&#8217;Donnell\u00a0hasn&#8217;t been able to handle her own finances well enough makes her seem like another Reality Show Sleaze looking to turn a pretty face into stardom. Only in this case, she&#8217;d be one of only 100 voices on legislation for our entire country. \u00a0Unfortunately, I agree that in some cases, the Democrats have put up candidates who seem only slightly better. There should be a new reality show called, &#8220;Who Wants to Be a Politician?&#8221; We could give Immunity Idols (congressional districts) to some, and others, let&#8217;s just vote them off and let them make a bad scifi movie as punishment, like Sarah Palin, who would make a good alien\/human hybrid cancer that takes over a country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed two good pieces on the (embarrassing) political choices we face in less than a month, Gail Collins in the NY Times, dissecting the weirdness in Connecticut: http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/10\/07\/opinion\/07collins.html?hp, plus another piece, which includes Jon Stewart on The Daily Show &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/10\/07\/on-witches-thugs-and-kooks-or-a-politician-near-you-with-an-apology-of-sorts-to-jon-stewart\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bad-tv","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.9 - 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