Who Equates Stewart With Charlie Rose?
I did not see the interview, but it doesn’t sound particularly confrontational to me. The show is entertainment after all. Confrontation by Stewart would mean detailing the litany of false starts and position flips that McCain has mastered over the past decade. Confrontation would mean drilling McCain about his caving on torture, and his irrefutably hard right voting record. I continue to be astonished by the degree to which people are willing to project on to McCain all sorts of positions and attitudes that he has never consistently demonstrated or effected. What is a constant in McCain’s political life is his unceasing desire to kiss up to far right interests (even after they thrash him, see, e.g., Bush 2000) in exchange for what he hopes will be their eventual annointment.
