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First, for anyone living in a JonStewartless alternate universe… Stewart (and Samantha Bee) giving Glenn Beck a history lesson<\/a> (about progressivism) was pretty funny. Beck may be a cheap target, but it’s also a cheap (free) history lesson. Take this country back, Glenn, way <\/em>back…<\/p>\n

www.thedailyshow.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

Next, Denmark’s new tourist ad campaign<\/a> by Lars von Trier (well, if only…), courtesy of The Onion. (Thanks to Graham<\/a> for the tip.)<\/p>\n

Finally, this discussion about Avatar<\/a>: while Glenn Kenny delights in “Pandora’s bestiary of psychedelic monsters” and “the way all these elements moved, and the way Cameron’s cameras, those virtual and those real, moved around them,” curmudgeonly Jim Emerson provides a hilarious counterpoint:<\/p>\n

“The letdown for me came from feeling that this wasn’t anything I hadn’t seen before: on those Yes album covers by Roger Dean in the 1970s, on backlight posters in my childhood friends’ bedrooms, in the Thomas “Painter of Light” Kinkade shop windows at the mall, in the floral fiber-optic lamps at Thai restaurants, on the comic-colored packages for Sea Monkeys. I wanted a world of mystery and wonder; instead, I saw a retro-cartoon rainbow of fairyland clich\u00e9s in fluorescent blue, purple, pink, yellow and green. That phosphorescent Astroturf jungle is enough to make Werner Herzog, seeker of new images to transcend the ones pop culture has exhausted, want to poke his eyes out with a glow-stick.”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First, for anyone living in a JonStewartless alternate universe… Stewart (and Samantha Bee) giving Glenn Beck a history lesson (about progressivism) was pretty funny. Beck may be a cheap target, but it’s also a cheap (free) history lesson. Take this country back, Glenn, way back… www.thedailyshow.com Next, Denmark’s new tourist ad campaign by Lars von […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[688745,689701,691215],"tags":[30,16865,16866,8,123663],"class_list":["post-1205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cinema_zone","category-media_ecology","category-politics_postpolitics","tag-avatar","tag-glenn-beck","tag-jon-stewart","tag-media","tag-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4IC4a-morsels","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1375,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2010\/11\/20\/puppets-mediums-in-the-battle-over-amerika\/","url_meta":{"origin":1205,"position":0},"title":"puppets & mediums in the battle over Amerika","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"November 20, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Jon Stewart does Glenn Beck (again), spinning his George-Soros-as-Darth-Vader routine to its logical culmination... \"Only Rupert Murdoch\" -- well, with this ragtag bunch of conservative billionnaires, media organizations, PACs, et al. -- \"stands between George Soros and Amerika.\" This is laugh-(or-cry)-out-loud hilarious. 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