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Shattuck: Jon Stewart’s fraud-ian slip
The Boston Herald ^ | Feb 16 2015 | Tom Shattuck

Posted on 02/16/2015 8:04:50 AM PST by calvincaspian

Our baby is all grown up.

Jon Stewart, America’s most-overrated perennial adolescent, has shed his Gen X jammies and is poised to finally move out of the house.

Sayonara, Jon.

Unlike Brian Williams, you got away with it.

Comedy Central has done well monetizing “The Daily Show” and you’ve become a very rich man perpetrating one of the greatest frauds upon the culture in entertainment history.

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Jon Steward is and always was 50 shades of dumb
1 posted on 02/16/2015 8:04:50 AM PST by calvincaspian
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To: calvincaspian

He had good mentors such as “Tingles” and Sgt. Schultz and Bill Maher, etc.


2 posted on 02/16/2015 8:07:49 AM PST by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am ...)
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To: calvincaspian

He is a liberal overgrown adolescent, who delights in snarky comments passing for intellectual discussion.


3 posted on 02/16/2015 8:09:15 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Good description


4 posted on 02/16/2015 8:12:06 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: calvincaspian

Can we use Mr leibowitzes real name?


5 posted on 02/16/2015 8:12:35 AM PST by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: calvincaspian
The guy made a lot of money for someone who was not funny enough to succeed as a comedian, and not smart enough to succeed as a serious TV journalist (if TV journalist is not an oxymoron). Only in America! But as someone else said about him, the reason he is lionized in the MSM is that he is their Id, he says and does on his comedy show what they wish they could do in their reporting.
6 posted on 02/16/2015 8:16:04 AM PST by Rummyfan (Let us now try liberty)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

He and his ilk on shows like “Saturday Night Live” have been instrumental in delivering the young adult vote to Dems (or at least generating a sense of futility that kept them home), keeping them out of the political fights that were leading to the destruction of their way of life.

For a time on the Eastern Front, the “Commissar order” required that such people be killed immediately upon capture. The Eastern European armies fighting the USSR understood the danger they posed.


7 posted on 02/16/2015 8:20:24 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Rummyfan

It’s frustrating to hear that so many young people hang on every word from Jon Stewart. They watch it as if it is a real news show. They get their news and information from whatever topics Jon Stewart chooses to make fun of. And the targets of Stewart’s snark are almost always conservatives. So there’s a political statement too being pushed by Stewart. He pushes liberalism in his own way.


8 posted on 02/16/2015 8:22:20 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: calvincaspian

Isn’t Comedy Central owned by CBS? For years, the lies were perpetuated.


9 posted on 02/16/2015 8:22:48 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: calvincaspian

Stewart is okay, IMHO. It is the reaction of the low info viewer/voter that is over the top....folks who post his clips when he attacks conservatives, but look the other way on those occasions when he rips into liberals.


10 posted on 02/16/2015 8:24:34 AM PST by GSWarrior
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To: calvincaspian

Don’t you just love it when the most ardent anti-capitalists rake in the dough?


11 posted on 02/16/2015 8:25:25 AM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (It's a shame nobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

And one more thing... If he’s a comedian shouldn’t he be, well... funny?


12 posted on 02/16/2015 8:26:54 AM PST by Rummyfan (Let us now try liberty)
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To: calvincaspian; flaglady47; mickie; Maine Mariner; pax_et_bonum
Weasel O'Reilly has long boosted Stewart's career with regular interchanging guest appearances on each other's shows.

Each is a different shade of liberal, but what BOR and Stewart have in common is the fact that both of them fancy themselves to be notable comedians.

Leni

13 posted on 02/16/2015 8:35:14 AM PST by MinuteGal
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To: Dilbert San Diego

It isn’t just young people; older liberal childless co-workers treat his show as news as well.


14 posted on 02/16/2015 8:37:25 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: GSWarrior

I’ve rarely seen the show, but barbs directed at libs generally occur in the safe zone after they are elected/re-elected.

At this point people should realize that with the exception of a couple of networks, nobody is allowed to have a show unless they march to the beat of the Bolshevik agenda. All you need to know about Jon Stewart is that he was ALLOWED to have a show.


15 posted on 02/16/2015 8:39:07 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Rummyfan
And one more thing... If he’s a comedian shouldn’t he be, well... funny?

That never stopped Roseanne Barr.

16 posted on 02/16/2015 8:43:48 AM PST by Colonel_Flagg (You're either in or in the way.)
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To: kearnyirish2

Interesting analogy.

Stewart and his ilk are indeed “Commissars”.

The greatest threat to the survival of the USA is not the ragheads but obama voters and domestic marxists in DC, academia, and the press.

There is no security until this threat is neutralized.


17 posted on 02/16/2015 8:48:29 AM PST by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA)
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To: calvincaspian

While the writer doesn’t actually say that Stewart is Gen-X, he gives the impression that he is.

Stewart is a boomer.


18 posted on 02/16/2015 9:07:22 AM PST by ansel12 (Palin--Mr President, the only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke.)
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To: longfellow

Why?


19 posted on 02/16/2015 9:12:19 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: MinuteGal

I have never thought of O’Reilly as a comedian.
A comic yes, a comedian no.


20 posted on 02/16/2015 9:27:19 AM PST by Maine Mariner
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