The Daily Show was off for the past two weeks. They returned Monday night, refreshed, full of fight, and knockin’ ’em out of the park. (One example at Crooks and Liars. Warning: strong language.) For fake news, they often do a much better job of getting to the heart of the issue than the so-called real news shows.
On Tuesday night, Gary Hart was on to promote his new book, The Courage of Our Convictions: A Manifesto for Democrats.
Jon Stewart: Are we at the point where someone needs to write a book telling Democrats what their convictions could be?
Hart: Yes.
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It’s not that difficult, because all we have to do is go back to the great presidents of the twentieth century, who were Democrats — Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson — and re-identify what they stood for, and what the Democratic Party stood for.
We were one nation, pursuing social justice. We believed in international alliances to make us secure. John Kennedy said we owed something to this country, and Lyndon Johnson restored equality and justice. And that’s all the Democratic Party needs to say, because all of those principles, those beliefs, are different from the Republican Party.
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