Proving that he has morphed into one of the top political commentators of his television generation — akin the late Johnny Carson during Carson’s long stewardship of the Tonight Show — Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart nails a growing consensus that New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, President Barack Obama and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie showed how people in positions of power should work together to solve problems. In his own Jon Stewart way, that is, in “A Tribute to Institutional Competence”:
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.