Daily Show's Jon Stewart 'Quietly Visiting' Ailing Iraq Soldiers

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Comedy Central's Jon Stewart was in Washington, DC Tuesday night for the USO-Metro Awards Dinner, where the Daily Show host was honored with a Merit Award from Joint Chiefs vice-chair General James Cartwright. If it seems an odd fit for a comic who consistently lampoons the Bush administration, the Washington Post's Reliable Source informs readers that all the comedic comfort Stewart gives critics of the Iraq War is matched by his efforts to comfort our wounded soldiers:

Turns out the comedian has been quietly visiting soldiers at Walter Reed and Bethesda hospitals, trips he began in 2004 to better understand the Iraq war. "I felt that I was living in a world of theory," he told the audience, "but I hadn't touched the reality and the humanity of it." The first patient he met was "funnier than I was" -- and Stewart's been a regular ever since.

Stewart told the Post, "I certainly get a lot more out of it than they do...If anything, it's made me angrier... You can be for the war, against the war, but you can't be uninformed about it. To see the human cost is part of the equation."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/27/daily-shows-stewa_n_93719.html

[NMDemDist2]

1. a brain and a heart

why am I not surprised to learn this about Jon Stewart

:loveya:

[annabanana]

15. a brain, a heart & a funnybone =

sexy

[calimary]

24. A brain, a heart, a funnybone, and an incredible, disarming cuteness!

What a yummy guy! I'm so glad that at least we have him out there as one of our standard-bearers. Otherwise, elsewhere in the mainstream media, all we seem to have is one Keith Olbermann.

[Cooley Hurd]

2. Jon, above all else, is a good dude...

Recommended.:thumbsup:

[leftofcool]

3. This does not surprise me at all.....go Jon

[tabasco]

4. A superb, brave human being.

:patriot:

[Kali]

5. he is about the only thing that tempts me to ever have television again

:thumbsup:

[Tiggeroshii]

9. Who needs television when you have the internets?

www.thedailyshow.com

They regularly put the most recently aired show on there to stream.

[Kali]

23. yeah - might even be worth satelite

I'm on (extremely slow) dial-up - last time I tried to look at their website it froze my computer - I get my fix from clips off of Crooks and Liars.

[9119495]

13. I look at my cable bill as a $2/day subscription to Stewart and Colbert

I spend more than that on books and magazines so I can easily justify it.

[Sinistrous]

6. Rec for a snippet of good news about a good man. n/t

[mzmolly]

7. What a lovely man he is.

As others have noted, brains and a heart.

[underpants]

8. A good guy

from everything that I have heard and read about him

[Indenturedebtor]

10. Jon Stewart for Veep?

I'm for it :applause:

[Maat]

11. Good on Jon.

Anyone who care to inform themselves about the cost of the war won't be for its continuation. I find that my conservative acquaintances must keep their heads in the sand in order to believe the lies this MisAdministration is putting out.

[momster]

12. As Lily Von Schtup said:

'What a nice guy....'

[wryter2000]

14. He's the best

:loveya: Jon

[progressoid]

16. Yea Jon.

[lebkuchen]

17. I hope Jon can visit Landstuhl one day

during the re-run season.

Ramstein facility has seen more than 50,000 patients from war zones

http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=60952&archive=true

[tavalon]

18. That's the thing I've known about Jon Stewart for quite a while now

He is using his comedy in the service of his patriotism. He is a truly gifted comic, but I admire him more for his patriotism, a form of which many of us here share - the burning desire to push America to live up to its rhetoric.

[toys4kitty]

19. I heart Jon

Thanks for the post. Love the man and the message that he brings.
Kick!

:kick:

[Richard Steele]

20. Jon is good people. K&R

[hootinholler]

21. The word Mensch comes to mind.

I hope I spelled it right, I'm Scots-Irish and don't really speak yiddish.

-Hoot

[Dr Fate]

22. It's simple. Liberals always put their money where their mouth is.

Could have filled Comedy houses full of ticket buyers, but instead visits the wounded.

Thanx John!

[alfredo]

25. Just sent this to my Veteran buddies.

Oh and I gave them a primer on Jon Stewart using this:

http://Youtube.com/watch?v=vmj6JADOZ-8&feature=related

[IowaGirl]

26. Jon is often the only bright spot in a world that just doesn't seem to make any sense. Like how....

people could be dumb enough to vote for another 4 years of Bush. However, now I hear that election was probably stolen from us as well. Wouldn't it be great to have someone like Jon Stewart for president?

[Kurovski]

27. K&R. (nt)

[jazzjunkysue]

28. Jon's statement after 9/11 was the most eloquent and loving of any I heard.

He said his building used to have a good view of the Towers, but now he has an even better view of the Statue of Liberty,and you can't do better than that.

It was not angry or fearful: He immediately went into human-empathy mode, to start healing the hurt.

Could not be more caring or selfless. :loveya:

[kreisler]

29. right on!

go js!