Of all the late night comedy hosts who made heartfelt, moving speeches upon their return to the airwaves, one moved me more than any other. Letterman and Leno were fine, but if you tuned in The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, you saw Mr. Stewart give a wonderful, from-the-gut summation of what he was feeling and what it all meant — certainly one of the most eloquent things I've seen on TV in the time since the towers fell.
If you missed it, the text is currently up on the Comedy Central website and, yes, I'll provide you a link to it. However, if it's still available when you go there, I would suggest clicking the video link on the same page, because Stewart's emotional delivery is half the eloquence. It's long — about eight minutes — and it may moisten your eyes. But at a point in my week where I felt I was starting to get numb to talk of the tragedy, it renewed the chills.
I'm trying not to think a lot about you-know-what but every now and then, I browse Ye Olde Internet for interesting comments and facts, and here are some more pieces I found interesting…
- The Enemy Hates What We Are by Joshua Micah Marshall, New York Post
- No Time For Partisan Pleaders by E. J. Dionne, Washington Post
- Hijackers Targeted Pentagon, Data Shows by Don Phillips, Washington Post
- No Taxation Without Reregulation by Joe Brancatelli, BizTravel.Com