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How Jon Stewart turned lies into comedy and brainwashed a generation
NY POST ^ | February 15, 2015 | Kyle Smith

Posted on 02/15/2015 7:34:58 AM PST by COUNTrecount

So Brian Williams goes out (for six months) humiliated and derided. Jon Stewart goes out (permanently, one hopes) the same day, but on a giant Comedy Homecoming King float, with a 21-gun salute from the media, his path strewn with roses and teardrops.

Why?

Brian Williams lied about his personal exploits a few times. Jon Stewart was unabashedly and habitually dishonest.

Though Stewart has often claimed he does a “fake news show,” “The Daily Show” isn’t that. It’s a real news show punctuated with puns, jokes, asides and the occasional moment of staged sanctimony.

It contains real, unstaged sound bites about the days’ events and interviews about important policy matters.

Stewart is a journalist: an irresponsible and unprofessional one.

He is especially beloved by others in the journo game. (For every 100 viewers, he generated about 10 fawning profiles in the slicks, all of them saying the same thing: The jester tells the truth!).

Any standard liberal publication was as likely to contain an unflattering thought about Stewart as L’Osservatore Romano is to run a hit piece on the pope.

The hacks have a special love for Stewart because he’s their id. They don’t just think he’s funny, they thrill to his every sarcastic quip. They wish they could get away with being so one-sided, snarky and dismissive.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: jonstewart; kylesmith; mediabias
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Why is he quitting wen Hillary! needs his help in 2016?

Surely he can be blackmailed to stay.

1 posted on 02/15/2015 7:34:58 AM PST by COUNTrecount
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I’ve talked to a lot of people who thought his show was a serious proper news show. That is just how dumb many have become in this country and even worse they actually quote him as if it were fact.


2 posted on 02/15/2015 7:37:31 AM PST by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: COUNTrecount

Bill Maher was a third rate comedian/actor who couldn’t get past even D-list status. He convinced HBO to give him a voice like he had some kind of brain. I put Jon Stewart in the same boat. What is so hard aboot having a bunch of idiot New Yorker cretins sit in your office and laff at something some liberal hipster writer wrote for you. He’s really a nothing.


3 posted on 02/15/2015 7:40:45 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: manc

As absurd as it may sound, he could probably get elected president. Legions of people in this country would enthusiastically vote for him. The lemmings believe everything he says.

At least the presidential debates wouldn’t be so boring. lol


4 posted on 02/15/2015 7:46:32 AM PST by Starboard
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To: Gaffer

Agree with you. All he does is preach to the choir. That’s not a tough or demanding gig.


5 posted on 02/15/2015 7:48:01 AM PST by Starboard
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To: manc

I’ve talked to a lot of people who thought his show was a serious proper news show. That is just how dumb many have become in this country and even worse they actually quote him as if it were fact.

For some folks, his show and People magazine are their news source. Throw in politico for web surfers and that’s about the extent on their knowledge base. Then you have the music/ movie mutants who get zero news and it’s easy to see how Obumer was selected, elected, re-elected.

Then there are those folks who say “I don’t know, but I have always voted democRAT”. Well that takes the thought process clean out of the equation....


6 posted on 02/15/2015 7:52:47 AM PST by 9422WMR ("Ignorance can be cured by education, but stupidity is forever.")
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To: COUNTrecount

Celebrate stylish mendacity.


7 posted on 02/15/2015 8:00:49 AM PST by Beave Meister (Die Hard Cubs Fan.....if it takes forever.)
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To: COUNTrecount

He’s a member of the bootlicker media, just like all the others. His particular schtick is he pretends to an intellectual independence that he absolutely doesn’t have. He’s every bit the Defender of Liberal Aristocracy that all the other bootlickers are, without the slightest shred of distinction whatsoever. His claim to fame is that he has managed to get a large following to play along with his pretense of independence.

In actuality, he’s as independent as an Obama caddy on the golf course.


8 posted on 02/15/2015 8:09:25 AM PST by samtheman
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To: COUNTrecount

Why do they keep saying the millenials love his show, when in reality, the average age of his audience is 41?


9 posted on 02/15/2015 8:16:38 AM PST by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't wait. Do it today.)
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To: COUNTrecount

Stewart didn’t even invent his “schtick”. All the basic bits of the show were already in place when Craig Kilbourn was hosting, but it was pretty equal opportunity in its mockery back then. The only thing Stewart did was shift the show to being a tool for bashing Republicans nearly exclusively.


10 posted on 02/15/2015 8:20:20 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: COUNTrecount

The writer here is gifted. He wrote one of the most concise and spot on things I have ever read on a particular subject. In this case the embarrassing Jon Stewart. Stewart dribbled spittle out of his mind and mouth from the first day to the last day he had his silly little “show” on cable.


11 posted on 02/15/2015 8:25:30 AM PST by isthisnickcool (NO MORE IRS!)
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To: Pajamajan

bump


12 posted on 02/15/2015 8:57:25 AM PST by GeronL
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To: manc

About a million people watch this show. The peak was 3.6 million when Obama was on. About 22.5 million watch NBC nightly news.

Stewart is an ant when it comes to US opinion. Quit making excuses. If we want to win, we need to make strong effective arguments and quit fighting amongst ourselves, not make excuses about ants on tv.


13 posted on 02/15/2015 9:07:02 AM PST by JLS
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To: manc

I have too - my sister-in-law. She’s about 55 I think.


14 posted on 02/15/2015 9:17:04 AM PST by FrdmLvr ("WE ARE ALL OSAMA, 0BAMA!" al-Qaeda terrorists who breached the American compound in Benghazi)
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To: COUNTrecount

I remember this putz making a joke about the mudslides in Italy going right up to the hair in Italian women’ s armpits.
he was never condemned for it.

A racist bastard.


15 posted on 02/15/2015 9:18:27 AM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: I want the USA back

condemned for what?


16 posted on 02/15/2015 9:38:17 AM PST by esoxmagnum (Turtles don't win fights. Victory belongs to the aggressor, not the guy hiding in a bunker.)
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To: manc

I guess I don’t get out much. I only see it as comedy drivel with people laughing. People are stupid if they think it is serious because it is not and never has been. It is on a comedy channel.


17 posted on 02/15/2015 9:48:52 AM PST by Mozilla
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To: COUNTrecount

Love this article. It’s the antidote to my depression yesterday on the worship of Jon Stewart in the NYT.


18 posted on 02/15/2015 10:00:11 AM PST by Yaelle (Each time Brian Williams lied, it was right after Bill Cosby fixed him a drink.)
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To: Yaelle

Glad it helped!


19 posted on 02/15/2015 10:19:52 AM PST by COUNTrecount (Race Baiting...... "It's What's For Breakfast")
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To: COUNTrecount

Somehow I’m beginning to think that Stewart began to realize the “tool” he has been by observing the last 4 or 5 years of the Obama regime and their non-accomplishments.


20 posted on 02/15/2015 10:48:42 AM PST by VideoDoctor
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