Left as an Exercise

After Jon Stewart’s recent fiasco illustrating just how ill-informed he was on climate change, I knew I’d be watching rather closely the next time such an issue came up. When the Tuesday show ended, he mentioned Al Gore would be his guest the next day. Here’s how it turned out:

What I wasn’t expecting, though, was that The Colbert Report would also do a global warming segment - guest-starring Al Gore.

(Aside: Try SourceWatching those sources red-tie Colbert quoted, with a system for establishing credibility.)

One of these two addressed the issue much, much better than the other. Determining which one is left as an exercise to the viewer, though it should be relatively simple.

(The embedded players are likely unavailable to Canadians. If you’d like to view these videos, use this FireFox add-on. Once installed, go Tools | Modify Headers, and from the drop down menu select “Add” and in the first box type “X-Forwarded-For” in the second “12.13.14.15″ and leave the third box blank. Save, then go into the configuration and check “Always on.” (I haven’t yet found a Chrome add-on for the same effect; the Canadian mirrors of the videos are here and here, although for some reason the Comedy Network saw fit to preface the interview with a Manbearpig joke…) Enjoy.)