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JON STEWART, the fake comic, is an angry man with fixed political agenda reports Howard Kurtz, and that agenda isn't getting laughs -- it's getting John Kerry elected President. So he's pulling his punches with John Kerry, and saving the real laughs for targets serving his political ends. Call it the partisan hackery of an agenda driven "comic", if you will.

My take? He much faster and wittier than someone like Bill Maher -- but heading in that not so funny "I'm way too full of B.S. and way too much of a @%&* to make anyone laugh" direction.

Still, he's got the funniest staff -- and the No. 1 book in the country -- so I'm sure he doesn't much care how big a @%&* he's become.

UPDATE: Lileks on Bill Maher:

.. it’s not the dissent. It’s the thin, meretricious, self-satisfied quality of the dissent. [If a non-lefty said anything as empty as "comic" Bill Maher's anti-American screed on CBC he'd] be held up as a parochial idiot, but Maher's drivel resonates, because he is vibrating on the moonbat frequency. He's one step removed from the people who would see a mushroom cloud over Manhattan and blame it on Abu Ghraib.

To get the full effect read the whole thing. Posted by Greg Ransom | TrackBack