Thursday
Jan222009
The Inauguration: The Daily Show Tribute (Complete with Bond Villain)
Thursday, January 22, 2009 at 7:27
Enduring America's Alternative Inauguration Watch (20 January, 7:50 a.m.): As Dick Cheney attends the Inauguration in a wheelchair, either because he has strained his back or because he doesn’t want to stand up for Obama: “His transformation to Bond villain is complete.”
Jon Stewart: "Are you kidding me?! A wheelchair?!....You might as well get rolled out to Star Wars' Imperial March with a white cat in your lap."
My wife to me (20 January, 11 a.m.): "You really can't make fun of a person in a wheelchair."
Jon Stewart: "Now I realize that humanity has a general moratorium on poking fun at people in wheelchairs. But of course today is a day for making history."
So we're claiming our small part in this destined-to-be-classic review of the day, although Jon also took on Maya Angelou, the Clintons, the President Bushes (elder and younger), some other poet, Reverend Rick Warren, Reverend Joseph Lowery ("the most adorable civil rights legend I've ever seen), and even the Great Barack:
Jon Stewart: "Are you kidding me?! A wheelchair?!....You might as well get rolled out to Star Wars' Imperial March with a white cat in your lap."
My wife to me (20 January, 11 a.m.): "You really can't make fun of a person in a wheelchair."
Jon Stewart: "Now I realize that humanity has a general moratorium on poking fun at people in wheelchairs. But of course today is a day for making history."
So we're claiming our small part in this destined-to-be-classic review of the day, although Jon also took on Maya Angelou, the Clintons, the President Bushes (elder and younger), some other poet, Reverend Rick Warren, Reverend Joseph Lowery ("the most adorable civil rights legend I've ever seen), and even the Great Barack: