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Never Forget What Jon Stewart Did To America
AMerican Spectator ^ | 25 May 2025 | John MacGhlionn

Posted on 06/04/2025 9:52:47 AM PDT by Rummyfan

Stewart’s smirk became the face of ‘smart liberalism,’ solidifying distrust in middle America and fostering a culture of ridicule and sanctimony.

Jon Stewart is back at it again, playing the role of political chiropractor, desperately trying to realign the spine of a party he helped fracture. The New Yorker recently offered Democrats a fresh 2028 campaign slogan: “Overcome the stink.”

It’s classic Stewart — sharp, crowd-pleasing, and seemingly wise. The kind of quip you’d see on a bumper sticker next to “Coexist.” And yet, the stench he’s gesturing at — the political decay, the public disillusionment, the loss of coherence on the Left — didn’t just drift in from elsewhere. It festered under his watch. And whether he’ll admit it or not, he helped create it.

Now, let me be clear: Stewart isn’t wrong that the Democratic Party reeks. It does. The media blackout over Biden’s cognitive frailty, the coordinated silence around his son’s laptop, the inability to speak plainly to working class Americans — it all reeked. But Stewart throwing up his hands now, acting like a wise elder disgusted by the filth, also reeks.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: billmaher; bloggers; jonstewart; marksteyn; nevertrumpers
Smarmy b*st*rd whose popularity I never understood.
1 posted on 06/04/2025 9:52:47 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

Stewart has so perfected “Nineteen Eighty Four”’s Double-Think , he doesn’t even realize he has been doing it for most of his career.


2 posted on 06/04/2025 9:56:48 AM PDT by SecondAmendment (The history of the present Federal Government is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations ...)
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To: Rummyfan

Ditto for Bill Maher.


3 posted on 06/04/2025 9:58:15 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Rummyfan

Maybe James Woods will engage and extinguish Stewart’s phraseology.


4 posted on 06/04/2025 10:01:16 AM PDT by Racketeer
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To: Rummyfan

Jon Leibowitz has no special talent. His popularity is based on promotion. You can select any random homeless person and with the right promotion make him a star.


5 posted on 06/04/2025 10:04:26 AM PDT by Vehmgericht
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To: Rummyfan
became the face of ‘smart liberalism,’ ...

Bill Maher tried this angle. Sorry, no sale.
6 posted on 06/04/2025 10:04:33 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Rummyfan

he has the world’s most punchable face


7 posted on 06/04/2025 10:06:20 AM PDT by imabadboy99
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To: Rummyfan

Stewart is a moron. I attended a debate he had with Bill O’Relly. Without his hand picked, cackling on cue, hyena audience, he as exposed as the real dope he is. It was pathetic. He could not rely on facts or logic. He thought he could wise crack his way through it.


8 posted on 06/04/2025 10:19:49 AM PDT by FlipWilson
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To: Rummyfan

I recall it being said back in GWB’s second term (not having to be a full and immediate apologist for that person) that the left created an atmosphere in which even ones like Ronald Reagan or even Gerald Ford would find it very difficult to govern and present that reasonable related image. And that was a great deal because of the Daily Show and also Saturday Night Live.


9 posted on 06/04/2025 10:25:27 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
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To: Rummyfan

Wasn’t he the one who had the dancing syringes when the Covid jabs were introduced?


10 posted on 06/04/2025 10:32:24 AM PDT by ducttape45 (Jeremiah 17:9, "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?")
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To: imabadboy99

I’m not going to go there, but what I will do is say that the effete dismissal of the rest of the country as their policies drifted further and further left, leaving only the crazy people on the reservation has left a lasting, devastating impact on the legitimacy of liberal governance.

Trust me, bro is dead. The smart people are never going to be as smart as they thought they were.

All of these developments had to happen as they did. Were it not for COVID and the clotshot, I’d be able to say, ‘and nobody died.’

But they did. Jan 6 too. People died.


11 posted on 06/04/2025 10:38:57 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs (Imagine what we'll know tomorrow.)
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To: Rummyfan

Even more smarmy and disgusting than Colbert or Oliver.


12 posted on 06/04/2025 10:39:27 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Rummyfan

Stewart’s ONLY gimmick was ridiculing straight, white, Christian conservatives.


13 posted on 06/04/2025 11:28:30 AM PDT by 100%FEDUP
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To: ducttape45

That may have been Colbert.


14 posted on 06/04/2025 11:52:27 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14/12 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Rummyfan

Everytime I hear Stewart I’m reminded of the bumper sticker YOUR HORN BLOWS DOES THE DRIVER.


15 posted on 06/04/2025 12:19:52 PM PDT by Vaduz
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To: ducttape45
That was uber-douche Stephen Colbert. If he wasn’t so damn stupid, he might have some sense of shame or regret. But, as he is both stupid and liberal, he does not.


16 posted on 06/04/2025 12:57:10 PM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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