The New York Times
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Gives credit where credit is due.
Did the bill pledging federal funds for the health care of 9/11 responders become law in the waning hours of the 111th Congress only because a comedian took it up as a personal cause?
And does that make that comedian, Jon Stewart — despite all his protestations that what he does has nothing to do with journalism — the modern-day equivalent of Edward R. Murrow?
He may well be the smartest man on teevee. And the most courageous. Plus, he’s a heap of hilarity. The entire beauty salon shuts down and up (which is indeed rare) at 10:00 every night to see The Daily Show.
Does anybody want to fight about that?