I’m not paranoid but…
(Update below)
What if the Bush Administration hated the Daily Show and the Colbert Report? What if they saw an opportunity to squash a progressive voice without a frontal assault? I’m not saying that the Bush Administration has caused the writers strike instead they saw an opportunity once the writers strike began. Bush and his gang might have encouraged their fat cat studio executives to stall the negotiations.
I don’t know if that happened but it sure would silence one of Bush’s loudest and most consistent critics.
Update: It appears that Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert will return on January 7th. They will be there without their writers. It will be interesting to hear if Comedy Central pressured them back.
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From NYT:
Comedy Central’s pair of popular news satirists, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, will return to their television shows on Jan. 7, two months after production was suspended because of a writers’ strike.
Mr. Stewart, host of “The Daily Show,” and Mr. Colbert, host of “The Colbert Report,” will have to improvise their monologues and interviews without the help of their writing staffs. (more…)
it’s funny…..i just googled “writer’s strike intended to silence bush critics” and yours was the first entry to come up….. i have been thinking about this for a while….wondering about the “greedy” writers and also thinking about, if the bush admin wanted to shut up almost all of their remaining, most vocal criticism, how could they do it?…. this seemed like just more (not unwarranted) conspiracy speculation until i heard the npr report the other day saying that it was the networks and studio management that were staying away from the negotiating table……….. hmmmm…..now how will they shut keith olbermann up..????…..stay tuned……….