His dad was a goat-herder!

This Rolling Stone article about Steward and Colbert by Maureen Dowd just makes me like them more and more. I see the t-shirts that sat Stewart & Colbert '08. I agree with these guys that its more of a commentary of a sad state we are in than the reality of wanting them to run our country. I think we need people like them to poke at the absurdity of things -- basically to stir shit up. And they do it better than any SNL skit ever did.

An excerpt that I really enjoyed:
But wouldn't, say, a President Obama be harder to make fun of than these guys?

STEWART: Are you kidding?

COLBERT and STEWART in unison: His dad was a goat-herder!

STEWART: I'd rather make fun of somebody who is wearing their humble beginnings on their sleeve than somebody who has created a situation where casualties are involved. So the idea that somehow it's easier now -- it's not. Because right now it is a comic box lined with sadness.