An interesting view of flash entertainment news. It would have nice to have had more input from John Stewart himself. Still it was an interesting read.

In truthiness, this should have been called "The Daily Show and The Colbert Report and Philosophy", since Colbert and his show are the main subjects of several of the essays. Topics include the Media and the DS's critique and effect on it, political rhetoric, Bullshit, religion, evolution, irony, and wordplay and neologizing. Philosophically, Stewart is most often compared to Socrates and the Cynics of ancient Greece.

I've read six or seven of these "popular culture and philosophy" books now, and this is the best so far. Aside from the inevitable repetitiveness that results from having 19 different authors treat the same subject (Stewart's Crossfire appearance was addressed many times), there were no bad essays in this collection - all were engaging and interesting. ( )