…there is no more effective public interest watchdog in Washington, D.C.
BILL MOYERSJon Stewart is a remarkable satirist and parodist in the vein of Mark Twain, because Jon Stewart understands what Mark Twain knew, which is that the truth goes down more easily in a democracy when it’s marinated in humor.
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We now know that a neo-conservative is an arsonist who sets the house on fire and six years later boasts that no one can put it out.
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You can’t have a people’s democracy as long as corporations are considered people.
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Journalism’s been a continuing course in adult education for me.
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When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind. And there is the danger: voters and politicians alike, oblivious to the facts.
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I can’t speak for a war that I believe is immoral.
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You do it because there’s a story to be told. I can tell you that the job of trying to tell the truth about people whose job it is to hide the truth is about as complicated and difficult as trying to hide it in the first place.
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The corporate right and the political right declared class warfare on working people a quarter of a century ago and they’ve won.
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I report the assault on nature evidenced in coal mining that tears the tops off mountains and dumps them into rivers, sacrificing the health and lives of those in the river valleys to short-term profit.
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Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House – as Brutus loved Caesar.
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There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians – they stay bought.
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I hear an almost inaudible but pervasive discontent with the price we pay for our current materialism. And I hear a fluttering of hope that there might be more to life than bread and circuses.
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News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity.
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I was not a public – I was not a thinker. I was a doer.
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Charity depends on the vicissitudes of whim and personal wealth; justice depends on commitment instead of circumstance.
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They’re counting on your patriotism to distract you from their plunder. They’re counting on you to be standing at attention with your hand over your heart, pledging allegiance to the flag, while they pick your pocket!
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