Jon Stewart nails it, again

In the modern day version of "the fool is the one in a Shakespeare play who can speak truth to the king," comedian Jon Stewart is the most effective truth-sayer on tv, in my opinion. And now he's done it again, in his pitch-perfect explanation of why he doesn't like Sarah Palin:

"When you peel back the pretty, shooty layers of the Palin onion, there's no onion. It's just a conservative boiler plate mad lib: 'Freedom is good and taxes are--ooh I need an adjective--how about, I don't know, silly?' And the worst part - it's a mad lib delivered as though it were the hard-earned wisdom of a life well lived."

I especially like the last line. It's what bothered me in all her interviews. She delivers cliches and inanities as though she has just conveyed to you "the wisdom of a life well lived."

Ralph