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    • Stewart’s 9/11 speech, six years on

    Filed at 08:11 on 12th September 2007.
    Filed by sjhoward at 08:11 on Wednesday, 12th September 2007 under Exams, Miscellaneous, Politics.

    Ground Zero

    Yesterday was the sixth anniversary of ‘9/11′. After 9/11, Jon Stewart gave a speech to open The Daily Show, a speech which I posted here back in June 2006.

    Such is the power of the speech that yesterday tens of blogs linked to it on this site, providing over 130,000 extra hits, and propelling it comfortably to the top of the ‘most popular posts’ league. When a speech that is six years old can still generate this kind of response, it surely must be a great speech.

    What a shame that politicians have moved so far from their people that it was left to a comedy newsreader to truly speak to the nation in the face of its greatest tragedy in many generations.


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