9/26/2010

If you are reading this, you are doing so for one of two reasons.

One of them is that you're sitting in your FIG class right now and going through everyone's blogs and you've just now come across mine. If that's the case, excuse me for a few minutes while I do some housecleaning for everyone else.

The other reason is because, like me, you've heard the term "swearing like a sailor" and have never actually seen or heard a sailor swear before. Now while I'm not a sailor, I have some swashbuckling/sail-hoisting cred. Captain Morgan is my nickname after all, and I didn't get that for my weekend activities either. I had to earn that nickname.

And by earn I mean host a bi-annual balsa wood sailboat competition in the pond behind my house in the Hamptons. My point is, when you see that little blue box with white text in it on Facebook, you come in expecting to learn how versatile four letter words starting with "f" can be.

But why am I telling you all of this I (figuratively) hear you asking? Well, mainly it's for those of you who are in the second group. The first group of people have no idea what lies beneath this entry and, for the most part, it'd be a great thing if they never did. Right now I'm just letting all of you "regulars" know that this is a minor blip on the radar. Regular programming resumes after today, so sit tight while I earn some points for my college money.

Okay, the first group of people can come back in at this point. I swear I wasn't talking about you behind your back.


My favorite journalist can't really be called a journalist. In fact, I'm pretty sure the fact that he's even being called or considered a journalist would be beyond aggravating to him. Perhaps unfortunately, he's been called the most trusted name in news in the past few years. Nevertheless, he has my dream job. If I could do what he does, I'd die happy. Who is this renaissance man, you ask?


Jon Stewart.

He lives in New York, makes fun of people for a living, and earns somewhere close to the modest sum of $6 million a year. There's just nothing that can beat that.

The comedy part aside, what Jon Stewart does on his show is really what every journalist should do. If John McCain was to come out and say something tomorrow about how he thinks Bananas shouldn't be eaten south of the Missouri River and there was a tape of him ten years ago saying that Bananas should ONLY be eaten south of the Missouri River, Jon Stewart would find that tape and call him out on it.

By the same token, if President Obama came out and said the same thing (though since he's most definitely a SocialistNaziMuslimElitist, it'd probably be caviar instead) Stewart wouldn't hesitate calling him out on it either. It's the kind of mindset that every TV journalist should be in.

Also:
http://www.prosebeforehos.com/video-of-the-day/09/24/jon-stewart-on-the-bill-oreilly-factor/
http://www.businessinsider.com/jon-stewart-on-oil-spill-2010-6

I mean, come on now.