How's Jon Stewart? n/t

[Betsy Ross]

[jberryhill]

1. Brace yourself for False Equivalence Flamefest Part II

[SidDithers]

2. Heheh...

:thumbsup:

Sid

[NuclearDem]

3. Only false equivalency I saw was between the Tea Party and the union protests

But other than that, Jon's been spot on tonight.

[jberryhill]

4. His second segment is good though

[Duppers]

5. glad you asked

he's being a fucking jerk tonight....making fun of the protesters and Ed Schultz and msnbc.

[NuclearDem]

7. I agree on the part about Ed...

But besides that, I think he's been pretty accurate.

[upi402]

8. What's going on?

He was the man... now he kicks those who are down? Really?

[CommonSensePLZ]

20. Yes, anyone who ever gets mad is wrong!

Is he cholerophobic or something? Jon might be in for hell when his little girl grows up.

[jberryhill]

9. Media criticism is one thing

But his second segment is spelling out what's at stake

[DJ13]

6. Not bad, needs ketchup

[Dappleganger]

10. Boorish...

or is that boarish?

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

11. tone deaf

[white_wolf]

12. I just caught the last 2 minutes

and he was good there saying how corporations wanted Americans to work for third world wages.

[bbgrunt]

19. I thought besides defining what corporations want,

he was saying that we should be thankful for even having jobs because we needed to compete with slave labor around the world and hence should take any kind of wage/union concessions necessary.

If there is another interpretation to his 2nd segment, please educate me.

[white_wolf]

22. Like I said I just got the last 2 minutes.

To me it seemed like pointing out what corporations want was his entire point of that segment.

[Zephie]

13. I've waited a long time to do this...

:popcorn:

[KharmaTrain]

14. A Man Hears What He Wants To Hear...

...and disregards the rest. Jon's doing a fine job in presenting the issues at stake but also poking fun at the media circus (as usual).

[jberryhill]

15. The part where he called Gaddafi and ordered an airstrike on Wisconsin was too much /nt

[Blue-Jay]

16. He seems to be in good health. You are you?

[fishwax]

17. not too bad

at one point he argued that, just as fox news claimed the tea partiers were ordinary Americans but now are attacking the Wisconsin protesters, Ed Schultz called the tea partiers whackjobs but now speaks of the Wisconsin protesters as ordinary Americans. I don't really watch enough of Schultz's show to know how fair that characterization is, but I do remember that some other MSNBC shows (well, Rachel Maddow, at least) made a point to say that, while there were some big-money backers behind the tea party protests, there were also "real americans" involved (however misguided they may have been).

Other than that, he did a good point of encapsulating the reason people were protesting, revealing the governor's hypocrisy, and breaking down some of the corporate agenda ...

[bbgrunt]

18. sorry, as of tonight, no longer a fan.

Needed some hip boots to wade through his shit tonight.

[Betsy Ross]

21. I've been losing my interest in him recently too.

Guessed there were more here feeling the same.

[Gregorian]

23. It's strange, having not missed an episode since the first. What? 1996?

Suddenly I just lost interest. It started at the rally. It wasn't edgy enough for me. Actually, that realization started quite a while back. I want more fight. Less congeniality.

[bbgrunt]

24. I couldn't believe that he picked up

the WI story and thought it was about wage concessions rather than due process and a seat at negotiations. ...at least that is what I heard.

He showed his true colors at his "sanity" party. He is more concerned with "civility" than social justice.

[Duppers]

31. the snot should tune in Rachel for an education

Stewart doesn't know what he's talking about. He's obviously not even thoroughly read the NYT articles about this, nor the post's. He's totally clueless on this VERY important issue.

[NuclearDem]

36. He seemed to have all his facts in order

I agree on the comparison between the Wisconsin protests and the Tea Party, but it's good to know I'm not the only one who thinks the Wisconsin = Egypt comparisons are also bullshit.

[sufrommich]

37. You're far from the only one. The Wisconsin= Egypt comparisons

make me cringe.

[pokerfan]

25. He's been shoveling this false equivalence crap

for quite some time now.

[Duppers]

30. same here.

this is the 2nd time after his criticism of Keith Olbermann. 'nuff is enough.

Hubby and I kept waiting for the punch line that didn't come in the first segment. We turned the channel.

[Uzybone]

26. He was great

poked fun at cable media hypocrisy...(including local hero Big Ed) and pointed out the fact that corporations will replace you with cheap labor as soon as they can.

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[Alamuti Lotus]

27. besides quickly becoming like Dennis Miller?

[Duppers]

34. an apt comparison. nt

nt

[Electric Monk]

28. A comedian, on the comedy network.

Tea Partiers wear tri-corner hats. What would the opposite of that be?

[starroute]

29. Real Dr. Jekyll and Mr.Hyde situation

The first bit on Wisconsin was embarrassing. It was all like "You're not overthrowing a dictator and you're not getting shot at so how can you compare yourselves to Egyptians?"

And he used a bit out of some TV interview to make fun of a woman who turned from being interviewed to call for the people behind her to start chanting. You didn't see enough to know what actually provoked that, but it had a strong feeling of being taken out of context -- and it seemed simply cruel of Stewart to mock the person involved.

But then he turned his fire on the corporations and he suddenly seemed like the Jon Stewart we all know and love.

I have a strong feeling that Stewart is going to seem increasingly irrelevant and out of touch over the next 2-3 years -- and he won't ever know what hit him. But for now, it's still possible to enjoy the good bits, as long as you don't mind that occasional impulse to throw things at the TV screen.

[Poboy]

41. +1

[kenny blankenship]

32. Rich and comfortable

PS. He wants you to stop all this racket and let him enjoy what he's made for himself in peace. The crease in his morning copy of the Journal hasn't been ironed properly for a week now. He also wants you to know he counts the silverware.

[Duppers]

39. ha!

+100

[pokerfan]

35. The Wisconsin union protest is the bizarro Tea Party?

It just aired here on the west coast and all I have to say is :wtf:

[whatchamacallit]

38. Corporate Tool EOM

[kenny blankenship]

40. And I would guess his employer can't call in the National Guard to force him to take a reduced offer

and take away his bargaining rights. So I guess he's not just a tool but a gold-plated tool that gets his own felt lined carrying case separate from the other tools.