Jon Stewart
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And, and,
The journalists sit there and they've been cast, I guess, as the peanut gallery.
And occasionally they'll get off a good question, but you're right.
They don't cooperate with each other.
They're all combating each other for a certain access or trying to make their name.
And this theater of the absurd, as though that press briefing is illumination in any form.
It's not.
And that's when he went, no, she's a bitch.
She's not a liar.
She's getting me in trouble.
But it doesn't get done and it or it's scripted.
And so it gives you the illusion of information.
And that I really do think that's the difference.
And I'm wondering what you how does it get captured?
Why does it get captured?
Because like you said, a lot of them are really good people.
A lot of them are committed.
How does it end up as this kabuki theater?
If you'd say it with the accent, it's halfway.
It's meeting halfway.