Walt is spinning in his grave.
A panel full of liberals on Wednesday's Good Morning America attacked the "angry, white" Tea Partiers and lauded the historical importance of Jon Stewart. Daily Beast editor Tina Brown gushed over the liberal comedian as " the only trusted branch of government."
That movie “Idiocracy” about people getting dumber and dumber over time was spot on.
Where did they recruit this ‘panel’ from Jay-Walking rejects?
A few points:
1. Craig Kilborn rues the day he didn’t resign his Daily Show contract.
2. Jon Stewart’s brother’s circle of Wall Streeters are using Jon Stewart in the same way Jim Cramer is used by Jim Cramer’s Wall Streeters, to front run markets and rip off retail investors.
3. It took three generations to destroy the American education system.
Damn straight. The people he associates with, anyway...
Abc is a theater of the absurd.
Fools names and fools faces are always found in public places.............
HuH? 8-}
They do realize that his program appears on a comedy channel, right?
“You know, I mean, in the end, Stewart and Colbert, really are like the Huntley and Brinkley of today in the sense that people really, really trust them.”
I guess Tina Brown is STILL a retard.
This is just a symptom of how low the discourse has fallen in this country. In Italy, they elect prostitutes to their national assembly. Entertainment is king. Stewart has funny words put into his mouth by writers so a segment of the population—the Tina Browns and other geniuses in the MSM—love him because of it. They can’t cognitively separate their admiration of him as a performer from their judgment of him in any other role. Thus, because he is funny on TV, he has important things to say about government. It all goes back to what is taught in schools. No one can think anymore. I guess Maher was right—people are pretty stupid.
Talk about a Freudian slip:
a) The media isn’t and never will be a “branch of government” even though MSNBC/CNN/CBS do all that can to be viewed as the fourth branch.
b) That the Daily Show’s viewers “trust” Jon Stewart to give them the straight scoop on “news” speaks volumes about the idiocy and lack of critical thinking skills among his audience. On a related point, I do recall seeing a while ago a survey of young adults that indicated the vast majority of their knowledge of current events came from the Daily Show, as opposed to reading serious news outlets.
c) Stewart’s liberal bias is unmistakable (a point he likely would freely concede, even though he has taken to ridiculing Obama in recent months). Thus, the subtext of this fawning attention is that if you don’t hold leftist views, you cannot be trusted. I don’t doubt that’s what an ABC panel believes, but it is very far from being a consensus view among the American electorate, as Tuesday’s teanami will show unequivocally.