I guess we see what we want to see. I thought it was a fairly decent exchange for both sides. Ken Mehlman looks a little silly overall, but he obviously knows what he's there for, holds his own reasonably well, and a large mid-20s audience of TDS thinks the head of the RNC isn't all that uncool.
There is something to what you say. This is probably the very reason he decided to go on the show. The no publicity is bad publicity policy. Laughter is a powerful tool.
I don't know that I entirely agree he held his own. He seemed to do a lot of the same kind of equivocating as his higher-up buddies and a lot of rationalizing. But, again, he's the chair of a political party, so I'm not sure we should expect any less.
He seemed to mostly "hold his own" by ignoring all of the very pointed things that Stewart was saying. Which seems to be the Republican way these days.
Haven't seen this one yet (it's on the TiVo), but did you happen to watch the Bill Bennett episode from last week? There are times when I think Jon is too soft on his guests, but there are other times when he just wipes the floor with them, and his discussion with Bennett about gay marriage was one of them.
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Date: 2006-06-16 10:53 am (UTC)He seemed to mostly "hold his own" by ignoring all of the very pointed things that Stewart was saying. Which seems to be the Republican way these days.
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Date: 2006-06-17 01:08 am (UTC)Did you see Colbert beating up the 10 commandments guy?
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Date: 2006-06-16 05:17 pm (UTC)"It's been a difficult run with you in charge of, uh... everything."
I miss him. But I don't miss all the other hours of TV I used to watch.