Meanwhile, The Daily Show sought to satirize what it considered to be overzealous chest-beating by certain conservative media personalities trying to make political points about liberals and Canada. At the same time, Lydic would not-so subtly suggest that if you wanted to actually compare the U.S. with Canada, then the latter would be better.
Stewart played the role of the straight man when he declared, “I just don't know if our political systems are really all that different from Canada's.”
Lydic sarcastically lamented the existence of the Electoral College, “What? Are you kidding me? Our democracy separates executive power from the legislature with a president appointed by an electoral college, while their democracy appoints an executive based on the outcome of which governing party has the majority. And as we learned on the ice yesterday, that system sucks!”
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. steve malzberg
