Reflections
The other day I watched an episode of the Daily Show with John Stewart.
10 minutes and 30 seconds into the show there is a clip where FoxNews asks what the Nuclear Security Summit’s symbol has in common with the flags of the Muslim nations shown below.
Fox News suggests that President Obama chose the symbol to please the Muslim nations as it is ‘similar to Muslim image’.
Jon Stewart did the obvious thing, he called the White House and asked them how the logo was chosen.
The answer is found in any Chemistry text book. The logo was inspired by the Niels Bohr’s model of the hydrogen atom.
Stewart’s conclusion:
It turns out that it is worse than we thought. It turns out that the people in the White House are not Muslims, they are nerds!
To mock Fox News further Jon Stewart finds Fox News’ logo looks like 3rd Reich poster and the Kamikaze flag.
To me it is refreshing to see how Stewart use satire and under statement to bring his points across. He must have read Kierkegaard.
The secret of communication is to liberate the other. Therefore one should not communicate in a straight forward fashion, yes it is even ungodly to do so.
Update: New York Times had this article today. By the way, I wrote the above last week.