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Squirrel! – Stewart Skewers Media Islamophobia

Juan Cole 09/15/2010

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Jon Stewart at the Daily Show has some fun with corporate media’s recent Islam obsession The funniest thing about the bit is his comparison of them to that dog in the animated film Up who can talk but who cannot help interrupting himself and shouting “Squirrel!” every time he espies one. Last week I saw a panel discussion on CNN with Wolf Blitzer on that kooky Florida “pastor” in which David Gergen sensibly blamed the news media for giving a nonentity such a big platform. The other guests went on obsessively talking about him for another hour. “Squirrel!”

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c
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www.thedailyshow.com
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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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