Jon Stewart and his “Best F#@king News Team” reported from Tampa, Fla., on Tuesday, as the Republican National Convention officially kicked off. The first night’s theme? “We did build that,” a nod, Stewart said, to the union workers who built the state-funded Tampa Bay Times Forum. Or a personal initiative of self reliance. Whatever.The RNC was scheduled to start Monday, but events were delayed because of Tropical Storm Isaac. The storm is now, “in the eyes of God,” a hurricane, Stewart said, ripping the media’s analysis of the optics of covering a partisan political event while a deadly storm churns across the Gulf of Mexico. “The worst thing in the world” for Republicans, one pundit said, would be for networks to broadcast a split screen of partisan speeches next to scenes of Gulf residents evacuating.
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