I used to watch Jon Stewart and honestly liked his stuff, because he would even go after democrats over stupid shit.

If you were vaguely Right Wing at the time it was glaringly obvious even then what was going on. Black Science Man was just "suddenly" everywhere talking about science and being worshiped, just like Bill Nye, but none of them ever said anything but The Current Narrative and generic slop.

Which made it even more glaringly obvious how people like Jon Stewart were operating. They'd bring on obvious plants reading easy scripts and getting softball questions for their Left friends to help those narratives, berate and attacking the Lefties who were making them look bad (thereby giving the illusion of being "fair" and "going after both sides"), while treating Right-wingers with the least faith possible.

They only seem subtle now because the current crop has absolutely zero subtly at all. It just seems so because for most people here, they were part of the "vaguely Left" crowd at the time so they weren't focusing that critical eye on these people until they finally got shaken awake by a major event like GG or Trump.