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BC professor thinks you can find a jury's worth of people with no feelings about Whitey Bulger
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I love the dig on Stewart and
I love the dig on Stewart and Colbert. Colbert I can stand because he knows his show is entirely satire.
Jon Stewart on the other hand, is a total buffoon. The Daily Show is presented as a satire, but in reality, Stewart wants it to be taken seriously. He has high-ranking government officials, politicians, authors, pundits and politically-expressive celebrity guests on all the time, and you can tell Stewart is very politically educated and well-versed when engaging opponents. He'll even go as far as to intentionally embarrass guests that don't share his views.
But as soon as you call The Daily Show a "News Program", he cries foul, making you feel like an idiot for taking him or his show seriously.
I used to watch The Daily Show, but the constant back and forth drove me crazy. I wish he'd either realize his show is a complete joke/satire, or at least take some credit when his show is considered a source of news.
Did you check the network name?
The Daily Show doesn't air on CNN, and I rather suspect that most of his audience does not mistake him for Dan Rather. His lead-in (as he once explained so eloquently on Crossfire) is a show about puppets making crank phone calls.
Lighten up, Francis.
And this is exactly what I'm
And this is exactly what I'm talking about.
I was actually thinking about this
I was wondering what I'd do if I got picked for Whitey's jury pool. Honestly, I can't see anything that would keep me from saying guilty. Yeah, I know, as a juror, you're supposed to sit there and only listen to the evidence as presented, but as far as I'm concerned, the guy's a thug and should be put away.
I'm sure I'm not alone.
Young people
I thought about that article after laughing out loud at it this morning. I think they have a point. Young people--from out of state--may still be perfectly intelligent and informed people and really not know anything about Whitey Bulger beyond knowing that some guy named Whitey Bulger did something or other a long time ago in Boston somewhere.
Honestly, this describes me.
Honestly, this describes me. I consider myself very informed but as a young recent transplant to Boston I had never heard of the man and I haven't read about this history of the case.
Agreed.
I've been here for less than a decade, and only heard wisps of story regarding what happened. Working to his advantage is the fact that most of what I know is based on hearing Howie Carr do basically nothing but rail on the guy for five years, and since every word Howie Carr has ever spoken on the air or penned for the Herald is an obvious lie, I'd probably be vaguely sympathetic to Whitey. It would be a tall order to explain why someone would flee justice for so long, but if they sat me on a bench, I'd at least listen to what the defense had to say.
People give Whitey Bulger too much credit
People give Whitey Bulger too much credit. His notoriety is not all that widespread outside of Boston/New England. When his capture was all over the news, friends of mine from other states either never heard of him or knew very little aside from the fact that he was some sort of underworld figure. Granted, his jurors will be Massachusetts
residents, but young people especially, know very little about a criminal whose heyday was well over 30 years ago.