Here’s a perfect example of why Gen X and Gen Y are relying more and more on the 1-2 punch of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert when it comes to delivering the news… they ask the tough questions and state the obvious conclusions that mainstream media is too cowardly and worried about advertising dollars contemporarily professional to say on air.

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Not only is it refreshing and hilarious to watch, but they have an innate ability to make their interviewees look absolutely moronic by simply highlighting their own words. To be fair, I’m sure that Comedy Central is occasionally guilty of editing their video footage to get maximum dramatic effect and they’ve pre-scripted their interview questions (like any good reporter would) to get a guest to step on a few landmines, but as this video shows, the only thing Comedy Central really needed to get the really juicy soundbites was to just play along.

What I really found interesting, aside from the fact that Washington D.C. hasn’t kicked Hawaii out of the Union for being socialists over the last 40 years, were the Republican spokespersons who appeared to speak as if they were speaking from a memorized script. I’m not saying the were coached to give standard operating protocol-like answers, but the responses they gave were notoriously similar to what every other health care reform opponent has said.

But, surely, since the U.S. is such a fair and just society, we should never expect that industries with the most to lose would hire large numbers of Beltway savvy political strategists to lobby on their behalf while coaching them to use only the most efficacious of buzzwords after conducting extensive focus group and polling studies on the best method to squash any and all reform efforts keep the status quo.

(Coughs: the Memo to Kill Financial Regulatory Reform!)

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