Wow. Thanks for pursuing this; I was wondering what "the rest of the story" was. Now that you know that he didn't post the thing intentionally, do you still regret voting for him? Just curious, you don't have to respond.
As I said before, I didn't vote for him for other reasons, and now I'm even more glad that I didn't. I believe him completely when he says it was a private joke that was never intended to be made public (because... why? It could only hurt him and the other candidate he was supporting).
But at the very least posting a webpage like that online on an unprotected website shows very dubious judgement. Unless you password-protect it, any webpage can be found by a search engine, after all. And if his "friends" immediately started forwarding the link around, one might also question Stewart's judgement in picking trusted friends. At least one of them is either malicious or not too bright. (As for what it says about his sense of humor - well, that's not too flattering either, but I can imagine a context where it would seem funny. I've laughed at more tasteless things.)
The fact that somebody in the Tammy Lee campaign saw fit to LINK IT TO HER CAMPAIGN WEBPAGE still counts as a Political Dirty Trick, imho. But that couldn't have happened without Stewart's amazing lapses in judgement. Ick. I certainly hope he's contrite.
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Date: 2006-11-09 08:28 pm (UTC)As I said before, I didn't vote for him for other reasons, and now I'm even more glad that I didn't. I believe him completely when he says it was a private joke that was never intended to be made public (because... why? It could only hurt him and the other candidate he was supporting).
But at the very least posting a webpage like that online on an unprotected website shows very dubious judgement. Unless you password-protect it, any webpage can be found by a search engine, after all. And if his "friends" immediately started forwarding the link around, one might also question Stewart's judgement in picking trusted friends. At least one of them is either malicious or not too bright. (As for what it says about his sense of humor - well, that's not too flattering either, but I can imagine a context where it would seem funny. I've laughed at more tasteless things.)
The fact that somebody in the Tammy Lee campaign saw fit to LINK IT TO HER CAMPAIGN WEBPAGE still counts as a Political Dirty Trick, imho. But that couldn't have happened without Stewart's amazing lapses in judgement. Ick. I certainly hope he's contrite.