The Daily Show Santorum interview

John Stewart has gotten lots of flack for what some people considered a ball tickling interview of Rick Santorum. I vehemently disagree. It was the kind of interview a civilised person would conduct. The gay issue was clearly pretty much off the table, but Stewart asked difficult questions in a reasoned tone of voice. Santorum's answers were contradictory and muddled, but delivered in a reasoned tone, also. As much as I like the fire and brimstone of an Al Franken, to actually be listened to in the cultural dialoque, you have to speak soft enough for people to listen. Stewart took apart Santorum's arguments, I think, even more deftly than he did Bernie Goldberg's. He made his points without demanding that Santorum respond.