Are you a fellow Loser?
That would be the term for the Lost faithful, in the vein of Trekker, X-phile, etc. The show made this week's cover of Entertainment Weekly, featuring the men of the show (in Oahu, I am obligated to point out), but not including the Korean! We got shafted! Don't they know that Korean television is the hottest thing going?
Speaking of television (and really, what else do I post about these days), The Daily Show wih Jon Stewart never fails to make me laugh. I was very late to this show, catching an occasional episode back in the day, but now I'm addicted, and Comedy Central makes it easy to catch, with airings throughout the day. The show tends to skew liberal, though Stewart (a noted liberal) says it's because the show makes fun of whoever is in power, and the Republicans are the ones in power now. I didn't watch during the Clinton days, so I can't attest to that, but I'm guessing they had plenty to make fun of back then, too.
One recent skit that killed: our attorney general defending the Patriot Act's legitimacy due to the world climate, and Stewart saying something to the effect of, "Yeah, because constitutionally questionable legislation rushed through during times of world conflict never goes wrong, right guys?", directing his comments to an inset of interned Japanese Americans. Then in response to the crowd's ooh's, "What? It was camp!"
Not necessarily a fair thing to do, attaching the Patriot Act to the Japanese internment, but he wasn't really making fun of the Patriot Act itself. He was making fun of Gonzales' lame justification for its renewal, the exact kind of justification that I'm sure was used back in the 1940's by FDR.
The show also railed on the Bush administration for repeatedly and transparently trying to connect itself with the Pope by referring to the administration's belief in the "Culture of Life", aka pro-life. But when asked by a reporter how he could claim this shared belief when the Pope is ardently anti-death penalty, and Bush is...um, not...McClellan said that this was not a time to discuss such things. Hey, believe what you want to believe, but if you are going to try scoring cheap PR points for sharing a belief with the Pope, then stand up to questions about where your beliefs differ as well. Or just leave the whole thing alone. You can't have it both ways.
Speaking of television (and really, what else do I post about these days), The Daily Show wih Jon Stewart never fails to make me laugh. I was very late to this show, catching an occasional episode back in the day, but now I'm addicted, and Comedy Central makes it easy to catch, with airings throughout the day. The show tends to skew liberal, though Stewart (a noted liberal) says it's because the show makes fun of whoever is in power, and the Republicans are the ones in power now. I didn't watch during the Clinton days, so I can't attest to that, but I'm guessing they had plenty to make fun of back then, too.
One recent skit that killed: our attorney general defending the Patriot Act's legitimacy due to the world climate, and Stewart saying something to the effect of, "Yeah, because constitutionally questionable legislation rushed through during times of world conflict never goes wrong, right guys?", directing his comments to an inset of interned Japanese Americans. Then in response to the crowd's ooh's, "What? It was camp!"
Not necessarily a fair thing to do, attaching the Patriot Act to the Japanese internment, but he wasn't really making fun of the Patriot Act itself. He was making fun of Gonzales' lame justification for its renewal, the exact kind of justification that I'm sure was used back in the 1940's by FDR.
The show also railed on the Bush administration for repeatedly and transparently trying to connect itself with the Pope by referring to the administration's belief in the "Culture of Life", aka pro-life. But when asked by a reporter how he could claim this shared belief when the Pope is ardently anti-death penalty, and Bush is...um, not...McClellan said that this was not a time to discuss such things. Hey, believe what you want to believe, but if you are going to try scoring cheap PR points for sharing a belief with the Pope, then stand up to questions about where your beliefs differ as well. Or just leave the whole thing alone. You can't have it both ways.
posted by Chang Kim at Friday, April 08, 2005
4 Comments:
I'm not a loser.
You sure blog a lot.
I think Daniel Dae Kim is due for greater recognition (though I haven't caught up with Lost yet). In the meantime, you can enjoy his work as "Agent Tom Baker" in the 2nd season of 24.
Huh? Who's Daniel Dae Kim? That's not your brother, is it Chang? What the hell is going on here?
I'm a Loser! The one with a capital-L, not the lower case one. =)
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