Imagine, for a second…Haiti. Yeah, Haiti is a good example here. Every day, particularly in Port-au-Prince but in most other areas, people line up, waiting for the trucks (some from MINUSTAH, others black market) to come in with food (mainly, rice and beans). They wait in line for it to come, and they wait in line to receive (and sometimes pay for) their food. They do this every day, waiting in line for same damn thing. And sometimes, it takes a while.

The question I ask here is this: Do they need to stand in line for this? The obvious answer here is yes. They need food to survive. This is probably the only means of which they can acquire food.

What we saw on Friday was not that. What we saw were a bunch of well-fed, well-clothed people, some with food at that, waiting at length (some for an uncertain amount of days) for what is at the basic level a GADGET. In this case, said gadget is very similar to what they already have, be it a previous model or different kind. Further, it will very likely be replaced in no less than a few years, likely by the next edition of said gadget.

Do these people need this gadget? No, not really. As said before, these people already have a previous edition or a variation of said gadget. And even so, it is not exactly necessary for basic survival.

In other words, they want this item.

So the question is, Why are these people waiting in line, for days even, to get something they don’t need but want?

That alone, deserves some ridicule.

Promoter of the Faith rests, Your Holiness.
(I invoke copyleft, since this argument can be made at just about any big name phone or game console or computer or game that comes out that people wait in line for)

Now, about the guy: I’ll admit, he sucks. But someone had to do it, and who could, really? Colbert might make good satire, but often does ridiculous turnabout as though he needs the audience to realize it’s a joke; Stewart…I don’t trust Stewart; Leno would fuck it up; Letterman would be too old. I think the only two that I could think do the trick is Conan O’Brien and Rick Mercer (of CBC). But it was Friday (problem for the former), and Mercer already has a different report: How nobody dared showed up to buy the iPhone in Canada. AT ALL.

(sorry if this went on long…I feel like something had to be said in defense of the action, not the person)