“Clusterf#@k to the Poor House - Bailout Bill Passes”
Entire opening segment from last night’s Daily Show. Stewart and team at their finest, especially in the last 2 minutes.
4:40: Bailout bill = a cow pattie with a marshmallow buried inside it — one thing is certain, you won’t forget that metaphor anytime soon. Clint Eastwood showed why he’s Clint Eastwood when he wittily worked it into his interview later in the show.
5:20: Senator Farley explains the bailout the only way Americans can understand it, with a highway crash metaphor.
5:55: This is where I think it gets really good. Spot-on parody of the seemingly endless self-aggrandizement of the Senate.
Stewart (verklempt):
To see all of us, here, doing the thing we’re supposed to do all the time, to see us do that once, it’s … we really do suck normally.
And then it gets meta….
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