"But heh! No harm, no foul, right? Except -- HARM!"
Jon Stewart of The Daily Show explores the question of how bad and wrong do you have to be at ABC to get in trouble for being so very, very bad and so very, very wrong. Apparently we have not plumbed the depths...yet.
Stewart's one of the only lefties that's actually funny (cf. Maher, Silverstone, Garofalo, et al.). Of course, he's got a target-rich environment lampooning the MSM.
I think of Jon Steward as an "honest" leftie. Someone who really believes that government has a role to play in making people's lives better, while still understanding that the tendency to corruption through power is just as real "for the good guys."
Of course, this creates a serious and unavoidable contradiction, but heh! that's liberalism. A patchwork quilt of "I want", "but it SHOULD", "I feel" and "why not?"
But he's not mean and he doesn't believe we bitter-clingers are evil, as most on the liberal side of life do.
Buttercup, Jon Stewart is, indeed, a lefty, but he is by no means "honest". Yes, he will sometimes lampoon the left, but one of his recent shows was so egregiously biased to the left, that even Buzzfeed (no bastion of the right) had to call him out for it. Occasionally, Stewart is funny. Occasionally, Stewart pokes fun at the left and Obama. But, most of the time, he is a shill for the Democrats, and the facts be damned.
Well, that's why I put the quotation marks around it. I was sort of indicating that he was as honest as it is possible to be and still be a leftie, which isn't very honest. He isn't RABID like Lawrence O'Donnell or Chris Matthews or Rachel Maddow. I know it's a nominal distinction.
Stewart's one of the only lefties that's actually funny (cf. Maher, Silverstone, Garofalo, et al.). Of course, he's got a target-rich environment lampooning the MSM.
ReplyDeleteI think of Jon Steward as an "honest" leftie. Someone who really believes that government has a role to play in making people's lives better, while still understanding that the tendency to corruption through power is just as real "for the good guys."
DeleteOf course, this creates a serious and unavoidable contradiction, but heh! that's liberalism. A patchwork quilt of "I want", "but it SHOULD", "I feel" and "why not?"
But he's not mean and he doesn't believe we bitter-clingers are evil, as most on the liberal side of life do.
Buttercup, Jon Stewart is, indeed, a lefty, but he is by no means "honest". Yes, he will sometimes lampoon the left, but one of his recent shows was so egregiously biased to the left, that even Buzzfeed (no bastion of the right) had to call him out for it.
ReplyDeleteOccasionally, Stewart is funny. Occasionally, Stewart pokes fun at the left and Obama. But, most of the time, he is a shill for the Democrats, and the facts be damned.
Well, that's why I put the quotation marks around it. I was sort of indicating that he was as honest as it is possible to be and still be a leftie, which isn't very honest. He isn't RABID like Lawrence O'Donnell or Chris Matthews or Rachel Maddow. I know it's a nominal distinction.
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