WaPo to Jon Stewart: Stop, stop, stop, stop hurting America
posted at 1:46 pm on June 23, 2006 by Allahpundit
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Is he really hurting it? Making jaded hipsters less inclined to vote is really more of a feature than a bug, isn’t it?
Anderson Cooper got in a nice dig at Stewart, too, when he appeared on the Daily Show a few nights ago. JS pleaded parody. Of course.
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Who is Jon Steward? Is he related to Martha? Was he in jail before?
easy87us on June 23, 2006 at 1:55 PM
Wait one minute! That’s a WaPo article that points out a study showing that Republicans are motivated by principle while Democrats dicriminate on the basis of race! I never thought I’d live to see it!
secarr on June 23, 2006 at 1:57 PM
If The Daily Show makes the type of people who watch it less likely to vote, then I am all for it.
thirteen28 on June 23, 2006 at 2:02 PM
The Chinese officials once reacted to “The Onion”, thinking that it was a real news-outlet:
http://www.theonion.com/content/index
For real good political and other parody:
http://www.scrappleface.com/
Occasionally Saturday Night Live and The Daily Show are great.
Those who don’t possess the intellect to discern parody from reality should not vote anyway. In fact, it would be good to have a legal way of preventing anyone who doesn’t pay taxes to vote. Requiring ID and pictures, when registering and voting, would also be mighty good.
The author just fears that more brainless types won’t vote for the Democrats. What a pitty!
Entelechy on June 23, 2006 at 2:13 PM
Those who don’t possess the intellect to discern parody from reality should not vote anyway
One person, one vote. One idiot, one vote.
One Einstien, still one vote.
If Jon can get more idiots to stay home, then he is doing us a lot of goods.
easy87us on June 23, 2006 at 2:21 PM
Stewart is a self-inflated dimwit, attempting to get his audience to laugh at the most shallow observations. He engages in political fart humor.
pat on June 23, 2006 at 2:37 PM
pat, what a great country this is, to allow him the forum to succeed at it.
We can always tune him and others out.
I loved President Reagan for many things, but never more than when he’d laugh at jokes directed at him, sometimes even by himself. What a great coutry indeed!
Entelechy on June 23, 2006 at 2:42 PM
For someone that can truly be funny; I can hardly stomach Jon’s show anymore- and I first started watching the Daily Show when Craig Kilborne was the host! Is very hard for me to just sit there and listen to nothing but “Bush is dumb! Bush is dumb!” over and over again. Not to mention the fact that Jon outright lies everytime he is on the air and then blames it on “parody” or “satire”. There’s a word for people like that down here in Texas: Jackass.
Cary on June 23, 2006 at 2:59 PM
Hmmm… well I think you could generally extend that to all liberals in general. That pretty much seems to be what they are all about anyway - life sucks, people can’t be trusted, we’re all a bunch of stupid hairless apes floating around on some random piece of rock in the universe. Liberals make people cynical about life in general - not just politics.
venmax on June 23, 2006 at 3:20 PM
Well Cary if the “Daily Show” is like you say that doesn’t make it much different from MSNBC which I can only stomach in 10 minute segemnts. One day this week when I was flipping around everytime I got to MSNBC they were still showing an interview between Matt Lauer and Brittany Spears and that was during the Olberman time slot. Pathetic!
It is no wonder they are at the bottom of the cable news ratings.
LakeRuins on June 23, 2006 at 3:26 PM
I would love to see a conservative version of the daily show, with Dennis Miller as the host. Maybe Bob Costas.
Not sure where he stands on the liberal/conservative line, but both men are smart and good interviewers.
Stewerts show has become a parody of itself. But like Easy said, if it keeps dumb people home then more power to it.
Wyrd on June 23, 2006 at 3:43 PM
I loved Millers show when it was on - but mostly just the news segment he did in the beginning, after that the show suffered from what most talk shows suffer from nowadays - that it’s about the HOST, not the guest.
Good point though - while Conservatives are in the middle of overthrowing liberals in the area of news media, the libs still have a monopoly on popular entertainment. It would be nice to see that change too over the next couple of decades.
venmax on June 23, 2006 at 4:38 PM
I think its puzzling that this hasn’t already happened.
There must be vast amounts of money to be made in popular entertainment directed at conservatives (see, for example, “The Passion of the Christ”).
You’d think by now some enterprising conservatives would have started their own movie and television studios for exactly this purpose.
Professor Blather on June 23, 2006 at 4:56 PM
secarr: No the article says Republicans are stingy bastards and the Democrats are racist bastards. Both bastards being the point I suppose.
honora on June 23, 2006 at 5:00 PM
Ok. These college kids are the ones who has momma, and pappa paying their way, right? So why does America want these kids to vote? It isn’t as if they have proven to be especially good at anything yet.
Perhaps the real problem that is hurting America is that the kids are partaking of a faulty liberal education. ;o)
DannoJyd on June 23, 2006 at 6:31 PM
Cary, I used to like the Daily show too. What happened? Who got to him? He used to attack in an equal-opportunistic style, now it’s just libtard mania.
And Prof, Trey and what’s his name of Southpark and Team America fame are doing a great job capitalizing on the running-dog-conservative-capitalist-pigs. They pretty much have a monopoly on conservative entertainment these days. I loved them before I even knew I was a right wing extremist! I didn’t understand why I thought they were so funny as I sat around in hemp clothes in college. It all makes sense now…but I can’t wait for the competition.
NTWR on June 23, 2006 at 7:40 PM
Agree NTWR… it’s quite rone-ry and sad at the right end of the entertainment spectrum…
RD on June 23, 2006 at 8:55 PM
Instead of criticizing a minor TV comedy show the WaPo should be criticizing itself and the NY Times for hurting the country by exposing national security secrets. Funny, they don’t see a problem there.
right as rain man on June 24, 2006 at 7:43 AM
‘people who watch Stewart’s faux news program, “The Daily Show,” develop cynical views about politics and politicians that could lead them to just say no to voting’
I think Comedy Central in general could create that malaise. This channel is cynical, and negative. The comics spew anger, not humor. The jokes are politically-correctly loaded. One of the most common lead lines of their chosen comics is “don’t you hate it when….?”
The movies are chosen to be vulgar if possible and negative about society in general. Apolitical, and therefore older comedies like ‘Some Like it Hot’ that lack the cynicism of the channel must play on classic movie channels.
I don’t consider Comedy Central to be a comedy channel. It has an enemy it hates, both cultural and political. It has declare war on that enemy. It fights the enemy with all the cheap shots of the overaged adolescent with special care to reach the underage and impressionable audience that wanders over from Nickelodeon.
entagor on June 25, 2006 at 9:33 AM