He's also the guy who got Crossfire canceled by shedding the crocodile tears on-air because people having a political debate on TV was "tearing America apart." All the while saying it's not his responsibility to be objective because his show was a comedy, even though it was pushing a very liberal agenda and was always nakedly attacking the Bush administration.
I remember that was my first inkling that this whole thing was going wrong. He made this big out that seemed like it made sense about how the show was pretending to be news but clearly was drama and conflict. That wasn't exactly wrong. But then he pretended his show wasn't exactly the same thing because 'it was on after muppets making prank calls" so somehow it didn't count.
It wasn't just a casual thing, he vehemently pretended his show which doing the exact same thing had none of the exact same issues, which of course it did.
Yeah, shows on the major 24/7 news networks should probably be held to a higher standard than a news/comedy show on Comedy Central that did, at the time, come after Crank Yankers.
This is honestly a point that a lot of conservative youtubers/pundits could make now. Imagine if Alex Stein (he of the "there's my big booty latina" to AOC -- which is very much meant to be comedic) went on a talking-head debate show on Fox and said "Yeah, I'm just a guy trying to raise awareness on political issues of the day by bringing a humorous perspective to it... you are the news and should get out of Opinion." -- it'd be the same thing, and we'd applaud it.
For an NYC lib, Stewart isn't that bad. It's low praise, but it's true.
Yeah, shows on the major 24/7 news networks should probably be held to a higher standard than a news/comedy show on Comedy Central that did, at the time, come after Crank Yankers.
Yeah, this is the hypocrisy I'm talking about.
Crossfire was basically the republican version of The Daily Show. Extremely hypocritical (and a sad sign of things to come where things got much worse) to pretend that the shows up before or after it were an actual argument. Stewart just didn't like people on the other side doing the same thing he was doing.
What was the percentage of young people who's only source of news was the daily show - like 30%? There's another group for daily show + others, and another group of "doesn't get news at all" - it was probably the biggest single source of news for young people.
More people need to watch The Deprogrammers to understand the dynamic that is at play here. It is a plot worthy of far better production values, which is why that will never happen.
Jon Stewart is the same archetype as Brent Spiner's character in that episode. His job was to pretend to be a neutral observer to break your affinity to your tribe, so you could be molded into having an affinity to his.
No. I've always thought he was a sack of shit. All of them, Stewart included, are neck deep in the single most corrupt industry besides the post office, Hollywood.
No. I just remember when he was my piece of shit because he was one of the few people out there actually criticizing the Bush administration during a time when all the media was sucking that ape's dick. And that I was too blind to notice that his show wasn't any less of a propaganda machine that the rest of the media was.
Because it’s not what it says it is, frankly anything VA funding related should be banned until that system goes through a whole audit, rehaul and frankly fire most of the administration
Democrats name bills like the protections of puppies act and routinely have the majority of bill involves anything but the title at best and worse actually do the opposite of the title. They then use those no votes in ads in the general elections knowing their base and demographics will not research what was actually in the bill thinking the Republican is a monster for not voting for the “protections of puppies” bill. despite the bill having a section for if a puppy is not adopted in 3 days after arriving in a shelter it gets thrown alive into a meat grinder and fed to circus animals.
Obviously hyperbolic but that’s typically how it goes. Or they will sneak a gun control section or massive increase in funding for some stupid pet project.
....no?
He’s also the guy that the majority of millennial trump voters watched and believed in before the Obama years
He's also the guy who got Crossfire canceled by shedding the crocodile tears on-air because people having a political debate on TV was "tearing America apart." All the while saying it's not his responsibility to be objective because his show was a comedy, even though it was pushing a very liberal agenda and was always nakedly attacking the Bush administration.
I remember that was my first inkling that this whole thing was going wrong. He made this big out that seemed like it made sense about how the show was pretending to be news but clearly was drama and conflict. That wasn't exactly wrong. But then he pretended his show wasn't exactly the same thing because 'it was on after muppets making prank calls" so somehow it didn't count.
It wasn't just a casual thing, he vehemently pretended his show which doing the exact same thing had none of the exact same issues, which of course it did.
Isn't this being a little too harsh on Stewart?
Yeah, shows on the major 24/7 news networks should probably be held to a higher standard than a news/comedy show on Comedy Central that did, at the time, come after Crank Yankers.
This is honestly a point that a lot of conservative youtubers/pundits could make now. Imagine if Alex Stein (he of the "there's my big booty latina" to AOC -- which is very much meant to be comedic) went on a talking-head debate show on Fox and said "Yeah, I'm just a guy trying to raise awareness on political issues of the day by bringing a humorous perspective to it... you are the news and should get out of Opinion." -- it'd be the same thing, and we'd applaud it.
For an NYC lib, Stewart isn't that bad. It's low praise, but it's true.
Yeah, this is the hypocrisy I'm talking about.
Crossfire was basically the republican version of The Daily Show. Extremely hypocritical (and a sad sign of things to come where things got much worse) to pretend that the shows up before or after it were an actual argument. Stewart just didn't like people on the other side doing the same thing he was doing.
What was the percentage of young people who's only source of news was the daily show - like 30%? There's another group for daily show + others, and another group of "doesn't get news at all" - it was probably the biggest single source of news for young people.
But that says a lot more about the failures of the media than it does about Comedy Central. That's my point.
No.
More people need to watch The Deprogrammers to understand the dynamic that is at play here. It is a plot worthy of far better production values, which is why that will never happen.
Jon Stewart is the same archetype as Brent Spiner's character in that episode. His job was to pretend to be a neutral observer to break your affinity to your tribe, so you could be molded into having an affinity to his.
"comedian"
No I don’t. He’s always been a pos. Part of the reason 2 generations of Americans have an incredibly distorted view of reality
No. I don't. You weren't paying attention if you ever saw him as anything otherwise.
No. I've always thought he was a sack of shit. All of them, Stewart included, are neck deep in the single most corrupt industry besides the post office, Hollywood.
I just wanna say I never thought his version of the daily show was funny, even when I considered myself a liberal. It was always, smug, muggy crap.
Always was. Always will be.
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You mean for the two months in between the times when he seemed like a massive POS?
No. I just remember when he was my piece of shit because he was one of the few people out there actually criticizing the Bush administration during a time when all the media was sucking that ape's dick. And that I was too blind to notice that his show wasn't any less of a propaganda machine that the rest of the media was.
No. He’s ALWAYS been this way.
Because it’s not what it says it is, frankly anything VA funding related should be banned until that system goes through a whole audit, rehaul and frankly fire most of the administration
The VA is one of the most communist systems in place. Veterans get hooked on the benefits system then get cut off if they loudly oppose the regime.
Democrats name bills like the protections of puppies act and routinely have the majority of bill involves anything but the title at best and worse actually do the opposite of the title. They then use those no votes in ads in the general elections knowing their base and demographics will not research what was actually in the bill thinking the Republican is a monster for not voting for the “protections of puppies” bill. despite the bill having a section for if a puppy is not adopted in 3 days after arriving in a shelter it gets thrown alive into a meat grinder and fed to circus animals.
Obviously hyperbolic but that’s typically how it goes. Or they will sneak a gun control section or massive increase in funding for some stupid pet project.
Hyperbolic? The CA 'Civil Rights Act' bill literally did nothing but strike civil rights from their state constitution.
Because they suck ass and are terrible