Stop the Inanity!

So my buddy Dale passed along this fine WaPo op-ed opinion column on how Jon Stewart is an "enemy of democracy," and by "fine" I mean "not fine." The gist is that two political science profs did a study that showed that people who watch the Daily Show have this crazy notion that politicians are idiots, our electoral system is in shambles, and that the country is basically going to Hell in a hand-basket. You see, if people think things are bad they might not vote. So obviously the "problem" is that people are hearing bad news.

Classic. Utterly freaking classic...

It's not the "insane jackasses" in the House of Representatives that is making people apathetic...it's hearing that they're insane jackasses. Iraq is only going bad because we hear about it going bad. Domestic spying is only a problem because we heard about it. Torture is only wrong when we find out about it, otherwise it's just good tactics. Global warning wouldn't exist if Al Gore would shut his pie hole! Government corruption doesn't exist until the liberal media makes it up...and yet people still get indicted. Odd, isn't it?

We're so divorced from reality we can't even begin to fathom that we have real problems that people need to know about so we can, you know, solve them. But no! That just makes people cynical and apathetic and then they don't vote. In what kind of world does any of this make sense? As Atrios is wont to say, CLAP LOUDER!