Did anybody happen to watch The Daily Show tonight?
They did a thing on the recall (obviously it was recorded before the results), but I was just shocked at the Wyatt Cenac piece. Jon Stewart did a thing making fun of a Fox News interview about the recall that was pretty funny, and then Cenac did a report on it. The point of the whole thing was basically "Both parties suck and are being childish in the recall thing. They're both spoiled brats." He implied Democrats are only doing the recall because they don't like the other side and that's it.
This was really shocking to me, considering Stewart's strong support for the Wisconsin protests last year. (I don't know if Stewart feels the way Cenac apparently does, we'll have to see tomorrow I guess) I had to turn it off, and that was the first time I've done that watching the show since Kilborn was host. It wasn't even funny. The false equivalence was just mind-bogglingly absurd.
Almost makes me think that "Did Jon Stewart sell out?" topic from yesterday wasn't too far off point.
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explain their conclusion that Republicans are the real problem, he spent most/a lot of his time trying to get them to blame the Democrats.
It is just like his Rally for Sanity - he pushes this bogus "both sides suck" narrative.
Yesterday, he finally had knowledgeable experts who determined we have asymmetric polarization and the Republicans are to blame, but he kept reverting back the centrist gobbledygook.
