It is too early in the week for villainy. Yet villainy is always afoot: waiting, lurking, ready to tie damsels to train tracks and twirl its mustache lasciviously. Villains do not always wait for week’s end to find a victim.
Mr Bill Gates, after enduring a 10 minute “interview” of you by THE DAILY SHOW’s. Jon Stewart, whose formidable comedic skills were unable to save any part of the bit, I watched with great amusement as you ran, not walked, from your gracious, bewildered host(above video. skip to the end or just go here). Your host that was willing to let you come on his show and give a 10 minute stock boardroom speech about the new Windows Vista OS.
You are a busy man, Mr Gates. I get that. You have places to go, companies to subvert to your will, and many other dastardly, er, genius innovative machinations that made the Zune the iPod killer it is today. But not being able to wait a measly 5 seconds for the cameras to cut to commercial, that was just plain rude.
Why do I give a damn? I didn’t until the next night the DAILY SHOW gang took time out of their schedule to mock the bajeesus out of your rudeness.
That made me think, “Why would a humanitarian act like an ass?” And that’s when it kicked me in the face. Giving truckloads of money to those in need doesn’t make you a humanitarian, that makes you a generous cash prize donor. It’s actions and common civility that make you humane. I’ve watched many a guest with larger axes than yours, who want to bury said tree cutters deep inside Stewart’s head, stick around the desk til after the fade to black. Why couldn’t you?
I *know* why. It’s because you’re a c….
Well played, sirrah. Well played, indeed.
(THE DAILY SHOW Jan. 29, 2007 vid clip via comedycentral.com’s Motherload embed thingie. See? I’m meeting you halfway, PTBs)
(via quickly departing youtube)
