Right up to their mutual love-fest with Bill O'Reilly...Someday you guys will say, shit, he was right about Stewart.
I just caught the Jon Stewart monologue on the Daily Show, the subject was last nights State of the Union speech as delivered by President Obama. The announcer opened the show by saying "We watched it because you didn't". Well, it's a sad thought that the audience for this show are as cynical spoiled smug and full of shit as the host.
To quote from the transcript (which I don't yet have) would be meaningless compared to seeing the video (I hope you will). If you see it I'll be surprised if you don't agree that Stewart displays a venomous hatred towards the president which has no excuse within moral bounds. He's off his fucking rocker with bloody hatred of Barack Obama. He saves for the president what should have already been spent on the true slaveholders of the world in totalitarian nations like China and Israel. Which got me thinking...
You know who NEVER GETS THE WORST OF YOUR WRATH Stewart? The fucking true enemies of peace on earth, the stinking bigoted ZIONISTS. Of course there are stinking bigoted Christian Zionists and Jewish Zionists and there are stinking bigoted Atheist Zionists like yourself.
You constantly give 'Mr. Tough Love on Israel' President Obama THE WORST OF YOUR WRATH and save little short mockeries for the Conservatives. You're an EGOMANIACAL STINKING BIGOTED ATHEIST ZIONIST EVIL SACK OF SHIT Jon Stewart...
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I saw Stewart's take on the SOTU and given your description, I was expecting a lot worse. But then again, I still go to Huffpost on a regular basis and hear more incendiary crap about Obama.
ReplyDeleteIf anything, Stewart's jokes about Obama usually fall flat because Obama is actually a sane and rational person. Meanwhile, his jokes on conservatives are usually more on target because the material pretty much writes itself. Even his jokes about Democrats in Congress are better for the same reason.
I learned a long time ago when watching both Stewart and Colbert that you can never expect them to completely adhere to any political position. Everybody's fair game. They will poke fun at anything political - although politics is still a serious business.
Besides, Jon has been critical of Israel in the past (especially when they bombed Gaza in 2008) and got a heap of criticism for doing so.
Honestly, Stewart is nowhere near ending up like Dennis Miller. But, if he does, he might has well give up on comedy. Miller's sense of humor left at the same time he became a Republican.
The both times Stewart has interviewed Obama (first on video and then in person in DC) - the man has always left Stewart speechless and pulling punches. Stewart may not like Obama, but I really don't think its to the level of being venomous.
And finally, Stewart's comments about SOTU were no where near venomous as GOP lawmakers' tweets during the speech. They made me so angry - I reactivated my Twitter account so I could answer them back.
Well, thanks for 'talking me down' so to speak.
DeleteI have seen the president with Jon Stewart and I agree PO did great, but I've been left feeling JS is holding a grudge about that. When PO asked him why he didn't have his Rally to Restore Sanity before the 2008 election (instead of while PO was in office) Stewart had no response. That still bugs me too. I do feel that the whole event helped tamp down Dem turnout. Stewart specifically equated Glen Beck with Keith Olberman and MSNBC with Fox at the rally. That sends a chill up my spine. And he made the blanket statement that 'the Tea Party isn't racist.' I wouldn't have minded if said 'not all' or whatever, but he offered no caveat referencing the violent and bigoted imagery of their signs and quotes.
I really don't mind evenhanded criticism of PO, I even joked to myself during the SOTU that he might say 'I'm the best president you've ever seen'... but I know for a sad sad fact that lots of young adults truly do turn to Stewart for political insight. I literally just finished a long conversation with a 27 year old co-worker who says he voted for PO and was at the Obama inauguration and was moved to tears, he described it as a religious experience...and yet he no longer has any use for the prez, he will absolutely vote for Ron Paul this time and he cites JS specifically for his new found awareness that President Obama is a total worthless sellout.
Again, if you assume that Stewart's whole audience takes it for granted that the president is far superior to his rightwing adversaries, then maybe I'm wasting my energy here. But for anyone who isn't solidly in the PO camp, that monologue spent 9/10ths of its heat and critical focus on President Obama. And I do know that many young adults who LOVE Stewart have come to the conclusion that the president is setting us back and we'd be better off letting him lose so we could then nominate.....'a real Liberal'.
For someone born in SC in 1955 (as I was) and grew up mostly in Georgia, that kind of talk makes me physically ill.
If we could have nominated "a real liberal" we would have. It ain't gonna happen in today's America. the whole country has moved to the right, and real liberals are in short supply -- and I'm thinking of following them to Canada....
ReplyDeleteActually, Obama is just playing a long game, and all of the rest of us are short-sited as all get-out. but nothing he could do would satisfy the "liberals" of today -- who are more interested in fighting than in winning.
Historical knowledge is in short supply and virtually non-existant in the 24/7/365 media.
ReplyDeleteFDR came from old money and Wall Street and still did great things for the poor and yet even Social Security was only a shadow of what it has become today when he signed it into law.
We've never been perfect, but we've made a lot of progress.