Ping
What kind of name is Jon?
Says who? Jon Stewart? Obama? Gimme a break.
I'm not sure why a comic reader merits a column of tribute in a major newspaper - but the NY Times isn't worth much more than birdcage lining anyways, so perhaps it was appropriate.
I’m sure they’re doing the happy dance over at Fox News.
"Jon Stewart did not offer an alternative to the media. He was what the media was becoming. The merging of opinion and reporting along with the overlay of cynical humor over every story have become ubiquitous. Stewart didn’t pave the way for a better media. He paved the way for Buzzfeed, Vice, Politico and Vox. He turned the news into a joke with an agenda… which is exactly what it is now."
The LIVs love “Stewart” because they have been told to. After all, you can’t be in the hipster club if you don’t like the right people.
The well founded basis of conservatism based on the constitution and freedom from government tyranny are things most libs are incapable of understanding. The old saying remains true: conservatives know a lot more about liberals than liberals know about conservatives.
“Marshall McLuhan was right. The media is the message. Jon Stewart has achieved something.”
The message of the medium is “buy!” and what Jon achieved was to sell... trash to idiots.
He can be a bully because he has a gang- the rest of the media- backing him up. And they do that because selling is all TV is about.
Make those young fools feel good about themselves and they’ll open their wallets wide, unthinkingly.
But if you make the audience think, ala Steyn, you’re violating the first rule of advertising. And you’ll have no place on TV.
“But they all are of one mind, and they are the greater part of this country.”
In numbers...maybe, in DEEDS not at all. Jon Stewert has achieved nothing. He is a mealy mouthed leftist punk whose ilk and followers have no part in building or creating anything much less this nation. They stand aside as other build and create then they slide to the front and start their mocking act. They WILL get away with it only until the Reality that they deny (for truths they invent)asserts itself. When the structure they mock collapses the Jon Stewerts are dead or silent enough to be mistaken for dead.
I like good, biting, even-handed political satire.
Stewart, and that Colbert dude, were just leftist hacks that occasionally (almost never) poked at a fellow leftist....usually for not being left-wing enough. The press lauds them because they say out loud what they wish they could on their supposed “mainstream” shows.
If they were even-handed and non-partisan, they would have had triple the ratings.
Stewart (Liebowitz) embodied the kind of sneering, smart-ass punkism that leftists think is wit. Rachel Maddow is another example, although Stephen Colbert is so stupid I don’t know if he could be considered a smart ass, just an infantile showoff. Funny how leftists confuse snottiness with intelligence. It’s a basic part of their “I’m smarter than you” worldview.
I’m glad he’s going. : ) Commies will miss him.
That means they cannot accept any good thing, even the authority of their own elected government.
Everything comes down to the desire to take a bite of the apple and become like the Most High.
But why is he going now? Isn’t Hillary about run again? Wouldn’t he be helpful for that?
Yet, he’s leaving.
That’s the really interesting thing to me.