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Monday, March 6, 2006 12:00 AM

Oscar castrates himself

The Academy celebrates niceness, bleeps out "bitch" and pats itself on the back for good behavior. And what did they do to poor Jon Stewart?

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  • Monday, March 6, 2006 04:33 PM

    Re: KRD: GFY

    Tom Martin:

    Are you a first-year polsci major? If you sincerely believe that that was the real Jon Stewart and not some completely pussified version of him then you are either some left-wing authoritarian completely lacking in critical analysis skills or you have an underdeveloped sense of the world around you - I would err on the side of the former.

    I agree that Jon Stewart is a national treasure, you nitwit. ("...because he is the public twin of our private dialogue or because he is the embodiment of an antidote for everything that many of us can agree is wrong with most news media outlets." Do you even understand what that means?)

    Last night, however, he was more a hybrid of Billy Crystal and Tom Brokaw. Please give me just one example of something he said that would have made the "republikans" chafe?

    Tom Martin meet reality. Reality, Tom Martin.

    Cheers.

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