Posted on 08/21/2015 2:55:49 PM PDT by Dave346
Just two weeks after the broadcast networks mourned “cultural icon” Jon Stewart leaving The Daily Show, Friday’s NBC Today and CBS This Morning touted an online petition on the liberal Change.org website urging the Commission on Presidential Debates to select the left-wing comedian as a 2016 debate moderator.
On Today, co-host Matt Lauer wondered: “Could the presidential race be in Jon Stewart's future?” Fill-in weatherperson Dylan Dryer followed: “Well, that’s the hope of a lot of people....A Change.org petition requesting Stewart moderate one of the 2016 presidential debates has been signed almost 140,000 times and that number is growing by the second.”
Dryer promoted the argument from Stewart’s fans:
The petition reads, “Over the last 16 years Jon Stewart has played an influential and iconic role in covering US politics and media.” As further support, the petition claims that Jon Stewart's past interviews have included 15 heads of state, 22 cabinet members, 32 senators, and 7 representatives.
Wrapping up the minute-and-a-half-long segment, Dryer noted that “a mix of news journalists” moderated the debates in the 2012 presidential campaign, “None of whom take the satirical reporting approach that Jon Stewart is known for.”
On August 3, the hosts of Today lamented that the “saddest thing” about Stewart stepping down as Daily Show host was that he would not be around to attack Republicans after the first GOP debate.
On This Morning, co-host Charlie Rose offered a news brief on the topic:
Time reports on a growing effort to let Jon Stewart host a presidential debate. His fans launched a petition shortly after Stewart left The Daily Show. They want the Commission on Presidential Debates to consider letting Stewart moderate a debate. The petition has more than 140,000 signatures.
The media infatuation with Stewart has gotten to a point where journalists have become eager to abdicate their role in presidential politics to a comedian.
The similarity of his style to Tokyo Rose is striking:
“’Hello you fighting orphans of the Pacific. How’s tricks? This is after her weekend off, Annie is back on the air, strictly under union hours. Reception OK? Well, it better be, because this is all request night and I’ve got a pretty nice program for all my favorite little family, the wandering boneheads of the Pacific Islands. The first request is for none other than the boss, and guess what? - he wants Ronnie Baker and ‘My resistance is low’. My, what taste you have sir, she said….
This is your little playmate Orphan Annie, and by the way, wasn’t that a lousy program we had last night? It was almost bad enough to be the BBC, or its little sister ABC. “
“If he is selected, the GOP should simply refuse to participate.”
Trump should decline. The GOP would gladly participate.
Was that on Bizarro-Earth? Having watched videos of those debates, IIRC the moderators were TV journalists like Cronkite, John Chancellor, etc.
The GOPe doesn’t get to decide anything if Trump is the nominee.
The name is Jon Leibowitz.
and he is a “very smart man” and an expert on politics.
MANY lefties have told me that.
They should add Dennis Miller for balance.
I’m sure he would be a fair and independent moderator./s
Petition seems to be exploding today - over 190,000 now from 140,000 this morning.
https://www.change.org/p/we-want-jon-stewart-to-moderate-a-2016-presidential-debate
These Presidential “debates” are fixed. So called “moderators” ask harsh questions of conservatives and easy questions of liberals. MSM journalists are not to be trusted.
Stewart is part of a media attempt to control the election.
Of course they are pushing for Stewart. They want to turn the debate into a clown show.
[I didn’t read the whole article, but ...] Are they also pushing for Stewart to moderate a Democrat Debate?
From what I have seen, most moderators ask loaded questions of conservatives (Do you still beat your wife?).
Liberals get the opposite. (Are you still the most wonderful woman in the world?).
2016’s Candy Crowley only without the sex appeal but equal journalistic standards.
No, no, no! That is SO closed minded, reactionary!
Let Stewart host....er...Co-host the debate.
He gets to ask one question and his co-host, Thomas Sowell, gets the next.
Be sure to wear your rain suits and bring umbrellas to the debate. Liberal heads will be exploding all over the place.
Republicans should refuse to participate. If they want that radical leftist to moderate their primary debates, go for it. One Candy Crowley moderator is enough.
Seriously, please Republicans, refuse to have anyone that had shown clear Democrat leanings being moderator, or best yet, NO MORE “MODERATORS”
This can all be done via computer generated questions and cutting off mics if the candidate goes over.
“I think Stewart should moderate a debate.
Between the democrat candidates.”
Game over, man.
NFW.
Jon should moderate the democrat debates...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3323146/posts?q=1&;page=101#112
Called it. Didn’t think it would so soon though.
Once again - not unless they balance him out with Dennis Miller....
Turn off the phony debates.
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