Sorry, GUEST, last night was Ed Gillespie. Kerry was the previous night! Since you didn't see it, and don't know when it was on, and apparently don't really know anything about it, I wonder why you are so anxious to talk about it--or rather, to dump links on us?

I did see it, and thought Kerry did just fine. I will agree with the Canadian newspapers you sourced that the US media is a shambles and that going on a comedy show is therefore preferable to going on a news show. But given that that is the case, why should we trust Slate or the Sun-Times, the two stories above that are critical of Kerry? They are, ironically, doing the exact kind of horse-race reporting the Canadians complain of: the stories are not about whether the ridiculous swift-boat accusations are true, but about whether Kerry "Scored" or "Tanked" in his efforts to refute them.

It's like Rob Corddry said on the same show: "I'm a journalist. It's not my job to seek the truth, it's my job to repeat what one guy said, and what the other guy said."