Do you think comedian Jon Stewart could have some fun with the recent Texas speaker's race?
My colleague Bruce Tomaso of this newspaper's blog The Scoop spotted an item in the Austin American-Statesman that says Stewart's zeroed in on how religion seeped into last fall's passionate debate among Republican conservatives about Speaker Joe Straus, who's Jewish.
Stewart dispatched to Austin a cast member of The Daily Show, John Oliver, who plays a slow-witted journalist. Oliver's doing a piece about some of the rhetoric used by critics of Straus, R-San Antonio. In mid-November, Southeast Texas conservative activist Peter Morrison sent an email blast noting that Straus' two Republican opponents "are Christians and true conservatives." In a story I wrote back then, Morrison told me he was "simply making factual statements."
It's been nearly six years since the Comedy Central program descended on the Texas Legislature to mine some mirth.
Looking for a fun five minutes? Listen to this vintage Bob Wiltfong interview with former Rep. Al Edwards, D-Houston, about his "sexy cheerleading" bill.
Source: http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2011/01/speakers-race-vitriol-catches.html
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