The day Jon Stewart quit: Why “The Daily Show” isn’t the satire America needs

salon ^ | Saturday, Oct 18, 2014 | Jamie Kilstein and Allison Kilkenny

[OL Hickory]

There was once a time when "The Daily Show" was truly groundbreaking. That isn't the case anymore

[OL Hickory]

Liberals eating their own... pass the popcorn!

[skeeter]

I just couldn’t get through that article. Long winded doesn’t begin to describe it.

[Christie at the beach]

What will Jon do. Kiss and make up.

[Third Person]

The authors are humorless hacks.

[Boomer One]

Got as far as the comment about an endless search for WMDs that never existed. Obviously this author doesn’t bother to read news, just make it up.

[TangoLimaSierra]

So many “facts” in that piece that are just wrong. Willful ignorance.

[KoRn]

This is a public service announcement to all FReepers!!!

DO NOT READ THAT ARTICLE!

Just a waste of time. SERIOUSLY!

[driftless2]

About the U.S. health care system. I guess it's so terrible that millions of impoverished people try to sneak across the border to get access to the "horrible" healthcare of the U.S.

And where are those millions of poor Americans leaving the U.S. to live in wonderful countries like Cuba so they may have access to Cuba's great health care system? (snicker)

[heye2monn]

Now you tell us! I just wasted 57 seconds of my life that I’ll never get back.

[Bullish]

Long winded doesn’t begin to describe it.

Also chock full of bullcrap. I couldn't get through it either.

[a fool in paradise]

Apparently Jon didn’t send enough Democrats to the polls this year.

[GOPJ]

I read the whole thing... you didn’t miss anything...

[A_Former_Democrat]

Too late . . I wasted two valuable minutes before my fill of BS from these losers

[DoughtyOne]

Yeah, it was great while he was trashing Bush.

Now what?

It’s a crackup to watch him trash Republicans on days Obama has infuriated about everyone on the planet except John Stewart.

[pepsi_junkie]

I tried. I did. First it went into how Stewart was great from 2000 to 2007 when he was attacking Bush every day. Hilarious! Then it goes on a long tangent about how Sanjay Gupta at CNN isn’t fair to Michael Moore. A long tangent. Then it makes up some strawman about Fox News calling Obama a muslim nazi and not taking it back (please authors, produce a transcript) and then it goes to Glenn Beck being a schemer and phony, then it finally comes back to Stewart and they’re mad because he said the tea party were nuts but SO WAS OCCUPY WALL STREET! GASP! I stopped there. I think there remains much more meandering incoherence punctuated by lefty strawman lies. Not for me though.

[SaraJohnson]

I read the whole thing. I am tired now right when I have to get to work.