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Liberals Are Not Laughing About Jon Stewart’s Jabs at Joe Biden
Rolling Stones ^ | 02 13 2024 | Miles Klee

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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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
The return of another entertainment industry nitwit, who can only try to criticize Donald Trump by equating him with the corrupt plagiarizing thieving grifter Brainless Joe Biden.

21 posted on 02/14/2024 7:23:44 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: pburiak

That will be tolerated if and when Biden wins a second term. Then look for them both to be brutally cancelled.


22 posted on 02/14/2024 7:37:38 AM PST by Braak (You get what you vote for - Some are going to get it good and hard.)
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To: Red Badger

Nor real logic and they love to prove it they are always in the sell me mode.


23 posted on 02/14/2024 7:48:55 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: yesthatjallen
"...after almost nine years on Monday..."

That was a long Monday.

24 posted on 02/14/2024 8:03:54 AM PST by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: yesthatjallen

F Jon Stewart.,


25 posted on 02/14/2024 8:24:47 AM PST by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: yesthatjallen

26 posted on 02/14/2024 8:29:05 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Stewart has been gone nine years. Did anyone miss him?! I never liked Stewart and Noah totally killed the franchise. This desperate move by Comedy Central is just that: desperation.


27 posted on 02/14/2024 9:45:37 AM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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To: yesthatjallen
“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.”

Bill Maher paved the road for Jon Stewart. It's going to be harder for white liberal elite goons to cancel both Maher and Stewart...

28 posted on 02/14/2024 9:47:03 AM PST by GOPJ (Mayorkas reeks of that 'CIA Creepy Thug Assh*le' mentality. Ashli Babbit's killer was promoted..)
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To: bigbob

it was a pretty good setup

bash both candidates as old

replace biden

continue to bash Trump on age


29 posted on 02/14/2024 10:27:15 AM PST by joshua c
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To: cgbg

Yech, what can you do. Child of the devil.


30 posted on 02/14/2024 1:07:13 PM PST by yldstrk
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