The Hufftard Pope Stewart speaketh!

I, for one, do not miss Stewart and Colbert. What I miss is any semblance of critical thinking and even handed discourse in politics. The fact that a know-nothing thug like Giuliani could be leading in the polls for the Republican nomination is just another indicator of how far we've fallen. What I did miss is how Stewart and his writers would have handled Rudy's shamelessly idiotic explanations over what happened with his slut mistress, Judy, and her drivers. That would have been good. Maybe he'll do a retrospective.

I gotta say: what the hell was Johnny boy doing on a doc. covering 1968? I realize he's current and all but come on. Somebody call Penn and Teller on this one.

At this time, why 1968? 40 years since...? :(

No, let's not think of it...

God, no...

Ugh.

--UB.

The caption for the video still with Stewart and Brokaw reads: Yeah, the 60s, I had a bicycle wreck and broke my arm right here. Yes, I remember the 60s. Or maybe it was the 70s- does that still count? Hey come on, I do the news too. Jack Out.

Big Whoop! The flower children are now investment banking schlumps (even drug ravaged Dennis Hopper shills for Wall Street). And you might ask: What Happened to the Civil Rights Movement? The 60s ilk included Dick Cheney (college deferred from the draft)and frat boy George W. Young people today have to work, worry about repaying student loans- not tuning in, turning on, and dropping out. The 60s brought us the Cold War, the assassinations of Kennedy and King- I don't need Brokaw to tell me anything else about it. He was mainly going on panty raids and smoking pot- genius. Jon Stewart?? Are you f-ing kidding me? Weren't you about 4 years old in 68? What the crap do you know about it? What is this junk? Yeah Brokaw, get Stewart, see if Madonna can make it (she would actually remember the 60s), oh yeah- get Jimmy Kimmel and maybe someone from the cast of Grey's Anatomy, woops- wrong network- get someone from ER-and some of the chicks from Desparate Housewives. Maybe that drunk British chick that sings about "rehab"-yeah, that's the ticket. But she's a Brit- oh wow! we could do one for the United States, and then the 60s in Great Britain. Edward R. Murrow, eat your heart out. Jack Out.

Sorry, Tom, but I don't need you interpreting the 60's for me. I'd rather eat dirt. But hey. You found a way to successfully exploit the WWII generation. You might as well go after the boomer $$ now.

MARC KURLANSKY wrote an excellent book titled'196­8'.....pub­lished in the 1990S..not sure of exact date......­......it chronicles 1968 and its events on a world wide scale.....­.not just it happened in the USA....i hope BROKAW has not plagarized KURLANSKY'S book....

Oh Jeezus! Not another nostalgia trip???!!! This was "The Best" that was "The Greatest"- give me a fricking break! At a time in their lives when young people NOW are out busting their asses trying to make a living and pay back student loans, the THEN White Bread privileged of The 60s was tuning out, turning on, and all that crap. Big fricking deal. The 60s radicals have now turned into corporate shills. Check out the sickening investment ads that acutally pander to 60s protestors and flower children. Hell, you even have that drug ravaged Dennis Hopper shilling for investment bankers (Hopper, a 60s wacko and now Right Wing Nut Job). If you want some true heroes look to the civil rights movement- a black trying to register to vote or sit at a segregated lunch counter- not some fricking White Boy who took a summer vacation to head to Selma. (Or a newsman who was chasing skirts and smoking some pot). Don't buy this garbage, it diminishes what really happened, glosses over what did not, and makes you dumber in the process. QUESTION AUTHORITY. Jack Out.

Bull. I already know it will be the Korporate -MSM version of the sixties. All war, racial tension, division amidst drug-addled hippies- nothing of the sixties that I knew. Articulate, well informed, individualistic, well read, anti-consumer , libertarian young Americans- all in all the greatest decade since the free thinking America of the first half of the 19th century.

Too bad the Smothers Brothers were a bit racist.

http://classicshowbiz.blogspot.com/2007/12/smothers-brothers-show-1965.html

And now it's time for the neocons and their spokesmodel Tom Brokaw to rewrite history.

Hearing Tom Brokaw pontificate on the 1960's is akin to George Bush, Dick Cheney, Sean Hannity & Rush Limbaugh telling stories about the rigors of battle.

Isn't he the goon that abused his position and accused an innocent man of a crime on national TV then had to pay because the innocent man sued because was found not guilty of the crime he was accused of--rather unlike Rather who accused a guilty man and was never sued and had to pay nothing to the guilty "Mr nobody" but lost his job anyway?
I like how the scum boys book is called Boom! brings back the whole sordid abuse of position.
The louse kept his job of liar to the people though ,I guess that is what really matters in showbiz.

I miss my late night laugh. John, Steven, Keith and Bill ( Maher not Billo ) are the best thing going to take us away from all the sadness and despair we are suffering right now. They give me hope that common sense will rule the day and that humor will not be lost forever.