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No Laughing Matter

Last night's Daily Show was must-see tv journalism and certainly no joke. On his last show before the holiday break, Jon Stewart devoted nearly the entire episode to taking the Senate--particularly the GOP--to task for making health care for 9/11 first-responders a political football. Stewart sometimes gets too self-righteous for even my taste, but in this case, he was totally justified.

In this first segment, Stewart explains the issue and takes the major networks to task for not covering it:

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In the second, even more heart-wrenching, segment, Stewart interviewed four 9/11 first-reponders now suffering from debilitating illnesses who can't believe the Senate won't help them, or that some Senators have the gall evoke Jesus Christ as their reason for not doing so:

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I called my Senator about this issue, which is something I rarely do. I find the whole thing entirely unbelievable and deeply sad. Can anyone with a better grasp of the process explain to me any good reason for this? Is the issue more complicated than Stewart made it sound, or are politics really that cynical?

Merry fucking Christmas.

Full post as published by Nuts & Boalts on December 17, 2010 (boomark / email).