Posted on 02/14/2024 5:47:43 AM PST by yesthatjallen
One-time fans who perhaps remember comedian Jon Stewart only taking satirical swipes at conservatives while host of The Daily Show were shocked and aggrieved when he returned to host the program after almost nine years on Monday to take aim at President Joe Biden.
During an “Indecision 2024” segment that anchored the first half of the show, Stewart aired exasperation over Donald Trump and Biden being the oldest-ever candidates for president, breaking a record they themselves set in the 2020 election. (In his usual self-deprecating style, he also took a moment to lament his own age and appearance.) The monologue made room for ridicule of Trump’s most unhinged comments but did not spare his incumbent Democratic opponent, who has lately faced intense questioning on his mental acuity. At one point, Stewart showed Biden — at a press conference to address a Justice Department probe that characterized him as a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory” — mixing up the countries of Mexico and Egypt.
Stewart’s takeaway was that both men were obliged prove their fitness for office. “What’s crazy is thinking that we’re the ones, as voters, who must silence concerns and criticisms,” he said. “It is the candidates’ job to assuage concerns, not the voters’ job not to mention them.” He also said that the danger posed by another Trump term doesn’t excuse Biden from scrutiny but “actually makes him more subject to scrutiny.”
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How long before Stewart missteps and he gets 'cancelled' by the mob?
Since Jon Stewart has been off the air, a new radical young generation has emerged who see Stewart as an old man and part of the entrenched establishment.
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Well, that’s because Stewart has been doing a lot of establishment butt-kissing. I’m certainly NOT part of the radical young generation, but I can clearly see that.
Ideological Leftists have no sense of humor................
They hid biden in his basement for an entire campaign, and they hid him away from press conferences and actual real questions for 3 years since.
Does the guy have to shop up wearing a bib to catch his drool before democrats care?
That’s a rhetorical question. Democrats wouldn’t care as long as they still have power and weren’t worried about an election.
I bet big media was begging him to return. He stepped out right before 2016, probably because he didn’t want to be part of the propaganda, but now they’ll pay him for it.
It would be funny if he does a Fetterman and by October is like “WTF GUYS, I’m voting Trump!”
Liberals have no sense of humor.
Comments are your typical, propagandized, Marxist idiots who if asked, couldn’t conjure up one accomplishment from slow jo.
“President Biden honored Jon Stewart for his work on the PACT Act at the bill signing ceremony, calling for a standing ovation. @TheDailyShow this is how you pay him back? What a cheap shot. I’ll never forgive you.”
“Ideological Leftists have no sense of humor”
The only exception is when there is some sort of misfortune involving conservatives e.g. Rush passing away.
Maybe he’s going the Bill Maher route. Deep down, still a leftist member of the tribe, but not willing to chug every last sip of the Kool-Aid and not afraid to call out the worst absurdities of that side.
Seems so.
Is he going to hire Jane Fonda as a war-zone correspondent?
That’s where the Left is today - committed liberals like Jon Stewart aren’t quite slavish enough in their devotion to the Leftist cause so they come under attack. Today’s hard-left ideologue will not be hard-left enough tomorrow as the Western Left continues driving toward peak insanity.
Trotskyites vs Stalinists.
Yep. Just like Dave Chapelle who vanished for a while only to re-emerge in a brave new woke world that wasn't having any of it.
Of course, Stewart didn't go off the air. He just went to a show on AppleTV that nobody watched.
Republicans shouldn’t either. HE IS ATTACKING BIDEN OVER AGE NOT MENTAL COMPETENCE. THIS IS ALSO AIMED AT TRUMP.
Stewart is an unfunny washed-up has-been.
Liberals have one emotion, rage. No sense of humor.
Stewart is doing his part to turn public opinion away from Joe, make no doubt this is part of the plan to replace him.
Stewart also broke little leftist’s hearts when he pointed out how absurd it was to pretend that the Wuhan covid virus was NOT produced in the Wuhan Virus Institute. “It’s right there in the name!” he yelled, producing nervous laughter from the audience who realized they were on the losing end of yet another conspiracy theory turned real.
I have told this story a few times.
It was my first day at a leftist college many decades ago.
I saw the guy in the room across the hall stepping out of his room.
I walked up to him, looked him in the eye, shook his hand and introduced myself.
His response (with a Charles Manson stare) was just four words:
“I am a Marxist.”
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