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• Monday, March 6, 2006 07:06 AM

  Faux-snobbery

  I generally like Salon, but this article is typical of your sometimes misplaced oh-we're-so-hip-we can-say-fuck-while-others-don't snobbery. First of all, what did you expect the Oscars to be? The MTV awards? They've always been strait-laced and staid; they're always self-congratulatory and politically correct. It was the same this year. Why would that change just because Stewart was hosting? And what's with the diatribe against nice Southern girl Reese getting the award? So awards should be based on real-life bad behavior, not on-screen performance? Man, for someone writing an article on the Oscars, you have pretty poor Oscar acumen. Let me explain: Reese got the award because it was a weak category, because two of the other contenders in the category have won some things already, and because the academy needed to make sure they threw something at "Walk the Line", which was not going to win any other awards (especially not Joaquin for best actor).

  As for Jon Stewart, are you kidding me? Did we watch the same show? He was muted, sure. But he was NOBODY's monkey. The "campaign" ads were great, the montage of homoeroticism in Westerns was smart. Hell, he even made a crack suggesting Charlize didn't leave pay-inequality behind when she left the coal mines for Hollywood. Both feminist and class-aware at the same time; very cool. Oops, I said feminist. How politically correct of me. Shoot me.

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