by Scott Creighton
It’s in the day-to-day grind that we can really find ourselves; how we react everyday to the little things in life that piss us off. If you want to see how Daily Show executive producers react to things when they are not busy telling America’s Liberal’s and Left wing progressives to just “stop yelling” so much, take a look at this video below.
This is the REAL Jon Stewart… a smug, pompous ass surrounded by virtual thugs.
activist: “Hey Jon, do you believe it? How did World Trade Center 7 come to the ground?”
audience and Daily Show staff: WHAAAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAA!
It’s a joke to them. Now granted, it was the wrong place to bring this up but still, that’s New York city… how many blocks is THAT store from Ground Zero? Closer than the Mosque?… and they are laughing about a building collapsing into its own footprint on Sept. 11th, 2001?
Is being ignorant about the event that “changed everything” somehow funny now?
Filed under: Jon Stewart Neocon Shill
I’ve never quite gotten why people like Stewart. Yes, I know he knows how to make people laugh, but not in a good way. You know how some people make you share humanity and it is a “we” laugh that makes you more human? Stewart isn’t like that. To me, he is unfunny. No funnier than Bush looking for WMD in the Oval Office.
For now, the ruling elite think they can tiptoe past the gaping holes in the official stories of everything from 9-11 and systemic financial fraud to torture and spying by pretending that it is outrageous to question it. I don’t know how much longer that is going to work.
But it is truly unfunny for this man and his handlers to have a “rally to restore sanity”. The neo-Left that laughs along with Stewart should listen to people like Scahill, just back from Afghanistan. He talked to the families of the people we kill, even people who have aligned with the US. Scahill says that we are driving the Afghans to the Taliban with indiscriminate special forces killings of innocent people, and that we have made things worse, not better, since Obama’s surge. Sanity would be when Stewart’s audience is marching in Washington to end that war (which of course can never end if we are losing, thus losing insures it never ends). Sanity will be when we demand action, not pretend change, on problems like the banking cabal, those who control our media, those who buy our elections… you know, real stuff, instead of yucking it up with a guy who is telling you that sanity is letting all that has gone on continue. I bet he thinks killing people in Iran and Yemen and Columbia and Azerbaijan, etc. will be a million laughs, too.
I personally know some individuals who were enthusiastic about this event. In order to understand it you have to look at Stewart and Colbert’s viewer demographics. They tend to attract relatively well-off urban liberals who think of themselves as quite sophisticated. The same type of audience that will go to watch a movie like “Waiting for Superman” and come away thinking they’re suddenly experts on the educational system. A lot of “Hollywood liberals” and academic-types.
For a lot of these people, things *are* alright in that they aren’t suffering economically as much as those of us who relied on the blue-collar sector(s) of the economy. These are the types of liberals who are very vocal on cultural issues but get scared whenever anything real (foreign policy, economics) is mentioned. They don’t want to hear about your financial problems. They *definitely* don’t want to hear about drone strikes in Afghanistan. All of this makes them uncomfortable because it forces them to reevaluate their position in the pyramid.
There is also a cultural element. The people who worship Colbert and Stewart are the same people who have made our culture so reliant upon irony and detachment in recent times. In their worldview, sincerity and straightforwardness are signs of a lack of sophistication. Seriousness and anger are signs of insanity. Everything must be approached with a sense of detachment, it must be mediated by irony/cynicism/sarcasm. This cultural sensibility is so pervasive in our culture right now and it is really twisted. These are the type of people who pop Prozac all day and are emotionally unstable but are quick to point the finger at anyone who feels genuine pain or anger about the state of the world as lunatics. If you’ve read at all about the way Stewart acts off-camera you know that he has anger issues and he is NOT a happy person. He’s probably just as messed up as Glenn Beck albeit he handles himself differently.
What this all adds up to is a perspective that reinforces the status quo. It turns a blind eye to many of the ugly truths of the world. It tells us that the best we can do is laugh about whats going on in the world and if you can’t manage that, if you’re angry about whats going on in this world, you must be some kind of wacko.
Things are NOT alright though. We have an entire continent (Africa) where millions of children are born, live a short life full of suffering, die at an absurdly young age from a completely preventable cause and no one in the world seems to give a f***. We have imperial wars raging around the world. We have the middle class in the US being economically gutted while privacy and civil rights are being eroded. The world is pretty damn un-funny right now for most of the world. To quote Marcellus Wallace in Pulp Fiction: “[Its] pretty f***in’ far from alright.” Yet here we have Colbert and Stewart covering the Democrat’s asses. I, for one, will no longer watch Stewart or Colbert and I encourage everyone else to do the same.
I’ve never watched Stewart or Colbert, Generation Why–wouldn’t know them if they were standing on my doorstep, but I’ll say a great big ‘Amen’ to every other word of your comment.
Thanks,
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Stewart’s head continues to expand and inflate. He seems to think that just because a few brainless liberal monkeys like him, that makes him the real deal.
He’s every bit the fake b.s.-shoveler As the Hannity’s and Beck’s that he loves to ridicule.