Truth is hidden on the Daily Show

by Jason Preston on October 31, 2005

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It’s amazing how astute Jon Stewart really is. I was watching this excellent clip where he mentions the nature of old school politics.

He says that it used to be about laying out an argument and then going “there! Can you prove me wrong?”

And if they couldn’t, then you’d won. I wonder what would happen to a candidate today if they took that kind of approach. What if the next presidental candidates actually took a stand on a few issues, and then set out an arguement for why they were right? I think that’d be pretty damn interesting.

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Kyle 10.31.05 at 11:07 am

You’re going to see it with the Sam Alito hearing. The Judicial Originalist (or “Rule of Law”) philosophy versus the Judicial Activist (or “Rule of What We Think Should Happen”) philosophy has been denied to the public for 30 years, and conservatives have spent the last 15 (since the Bork rejection) pretty finely crafting it for the knock-down drag-out we’re about to witness.

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