“You have not been paying attention.”
— Radiohead, “2+2=5.”
“If a man will stand up and assert, and repeat, and re-assert, that two and two do not make four, I know nothing in the power of argument that can stop him.”
— A. Lincoln.
“Why do I take this more seriously than you?”
— Jon Stewart, addressing a media breakfast at the 2008 Democratic National Convention.
“CNN staffers debated the meaning of MILF versus GMILF at a party for the Louisiana delegation …”
— Lizzie Widdicombe, writing in The New Yorker.
In 2004, Tucker Carlson asked Jon Stewart on the show-cancelling episode of Crossfire which candidate then running for office would better suit Stewart as a comedian. That’s not quite how it works, Stewart said. “But don’t you have a stake in this,” Paul Begala asked, “not just as a citizen but as a professional comedian?” “Right,” Stewart sarcastically replied. “Which I hold to be more important than a citizen.”
