Liberal Salon.com Writer to Jon Stewart: Drop Your ‘Trite’ ‘I Am a Comedian First’ BS
It's not just conservatives who are sick and tired of Jon Stewart hiding behind his “I'm a comedian” excuse when called out for his dead-serious liberal pontifications. Even liberals like Salon.com's Will Bunch are tired of the “Daily Show” host's faux sanctimony, even as he cheers Stewart's liberalism and calls on the comedian to embrace it. From a June 21 War Room blog post (emphases mine): [O]utside of “The Daily Show,” in interviews like the one he gave to Chris Wallace and even his famous 2004 confrontation that may or may not have killed CNN's “Crossfire,” I find that Stewart (and it pains me to say this, as such a fan) can come across as kind of lame, his “media criticism” beyond trite. In interviews, his complaints against the media tend to be an unsophisticated “pox on all of your houses.” I thought his largely pointless D.C. mall rally in late October repeated the mistake he makes in these interviews — trying to argue that our discourse is too loud while ignoring the real point that he hammers home on “The Daily Show,” that our politics is irrational.
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