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Daily Show’s Jon Stewart Blasts CNN Town Hall for Appeasing Donald Trump
Breitbart ^ | 14 May 2023 | WARNER TODD HUSTON

Posted on 05/14/2023 8:45:38 PM PDT by SoConPubbie

Former Daily Show host Jon Stewart blasted CNN’s town hall event with Donald Trump because he felt it did not teach viewers anything new about the former president. But, worse, he accused CNN of bending to Trump’s will and refusing to engage him with hard-hitting questions.

Despite that the very first words out of CNN host Kaitlan Collins’ mouth smeared Trump as lying about the results of the 2020 election and exclaimed that his presidency “ended with a deadly riot at the Capitol,” Stewart said that he feels CNN bowed to Trump’s wishes and crafted a softball event to appease him.

“Dear TV. The problem w the Trump Town Hall wasn’t platforming … or a fragile siloed audience unable to be exposed to newsworthy opinions antithetical to their own … the problem was an event that was clearly negotiated to Trump’s approval. An ode to access,” Stewart criticized in a Twitter thread Saturday.

He then added an imaginary conversation between CNN and Trump that he assumes occurred as the two were negotiating the event.

“We promise good sir…we are no longer Fake News!!! An enemy of the people!!! Let us prove it to you!!! We are fair and good and will do this however you would like…just come back,” he imagined CNN pleading.

We promise good sir…we are no longer Fake News!!! An enemy of the people!!! Let us prove it to you!!! We are fair and good and will do this however you would like…just come back…

— Jon Stewart (@jonstewart) May 13, 2023

Stewart ended his thread saying that he learned “nothing” about Trump from the CNN town hall.

“I learned nothing from this town hall about Trump and his most ardent supporters I haven’t known since 2016. I learned a lot about CNN,” he wrote.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: trump; warnertoddhuston
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1 posted on 05/14/2023 8:45:38 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
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Anyone who supports or defends the corrupt, demented, perverted Joe Biden and his America hating cabal like Jon Stewart is a vile enemy of the American people and must be held accountable.


2 posted on 05/14/2023 8:50:25 PM PDT by allendale
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To: SoConPubbie

All the Liberal praise and adoration didn’t go to his head at all, nope!

Most overrated whatever he is in media today


3 posted on 05/14/2023 8:54:35 PM PDT by Az Joe (Live free or die)
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To: allendale

I’m with you


4 posted on 05/14/2023 8:55:25 PM PDT by Az Joe (Live free or die)
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To: allendale

+100


5 posted on 05/14/2023 8:59:20 PM PDT by Bob434 (question )
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To: SoConPubbie

If he learned NOTHING, he is one sick bastid.


6 posted on 05/14/2023 9:02:25 PM PDT by Maris Crane
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man...day 3 and they are still melting down over this....think they are realizing that everything they threw at this guy didnt work after all.


7 posted on 05/14/2023 9:02:58 PM PDT by basalt (qb's)
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To: SoConPubbie

It’s good someone paid Stewart $150k to say that


8 posted on 05/14/2023 9:17:35 PM PDT by struggle
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One of the myths going around left-wing websites about the town hall, is Trump wasn’t challenged & was given softball questions.

They obviously didn’t watch it because Collins was playing “gotcha” all night.

Biden couldn’t handle a forum like that. He has to be protected by the press.


9 posted on 05/14/2023 10:07:43 PM PDT by unclebankster ( Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.)
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sounds like the LEFT should boycott cnn


10 posted on 05/14/2023 11:12:33 PM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: SoConPubbie

Stewart is a nastier version of Joe (my wife is my human life-vest) Scarborough. Charlie Manson needs new “family” members, in Hell.

I’m collecting for two one-way tickets for “down-under”. Confederate money accepted. Any currency to put these two . Psychos on “an express elevator to Hell” is a accepted.

They didn’t nickname me the Grinning Reaper for nothing.


11 posted on 05/14/2023 11:32:47 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures )
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Refused to engage Trump with hard-hitting questions?
The woman didn’t STFU the whole time.


12 posted on 05/15/2023 2:19:18 AM PDT by servo1969
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Holycrap... what a pantload!!

He imagines what happened and spews it as fact.

And not only is it imaginary, it is totally incorrect.

CNN sent this poor woman (I ALMOST feel sorry for her- this was career-ending bad) and they thought she could compete against Trump????

They thought that her simply repeating question he had answered over and over again was a winning strategy.

I can just hear the producers in her ear: “Ask him again- does he want Russia or Ukraine to win!!!” All that did was give him ANOTHER chance to repeat the debate-winning line “I want people to stop DYING”

This was no cooperative joint venture, Stewart, they were after him - again- and failed - again.


13 posted on 05/15/2023 2:44:53 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare)
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Well, if Stewart is right and Trump negotiated this to his favor, with CNN of all things, then I’d say it shows Trumps ability to negotiate. Sounds like someone I want at the helm.


14 posted on 05/15/2023 3:23:24 AM PDT by dware (Americans prefer peaceful slavery over dangerous freedom)
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CNN sent this poor woman (I ALMOST feel sorry for her- this was career-ending bad) and they thought she could compete against Trump????

Think about who would have been sent to interview a former president, say, fifty years ago. It WOULD’NT have been some 31 yr old bimbo. It would have been someone who even without any prep knew presidential history off the top of his head.


15 posted on 05/15/2023 4:22:18 AM PDT by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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“Dear TV. The problem w the Trump Town Hall wasn’t platforming … or a fragile siloed audience unable to be exposed to newsworthy opinions antithetical to their own … the problem was an event that was clearly negotiated to Trump’s approval.

Okay, now talk about bubblewrap biden and virtually every single scripted press encounter/tongue bath.

16 posted on 05/15/2023 4:26:36 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: SoConPubbie

Seems Jon Stewart and CNN do not understand exactly what a Town Hall is


17 posted on 05/15/2023 4:38:14 AM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: basalt

“day 3 and they are still melting down over this”

I have been thinking of The Queens maxim of “Never complain, never explain”. When I see complaining these days it says a lot more than just a complaint, in this case those folks are scared.


18 posted on 05/15/2023 5:11:40 AM PDT by Jolla ( )
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To: SoConPubbie

Stewart/Liebowitz? Is he still alive?


19 posted on 05/15/2023 5:13:18 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.org)
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Stewart/Liebowitz? Is he still alive?

Wasn't he killed in a kiln explosion?

...

...

Oh, no ... that was his sister, Fawn.


20 posted on 05/15/2023 5:28:57 AM PDT by BlueLancer (Orchides Forum Trahite - Cordes Et Mentes Veniant)
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