So Brian Williams goes out (for six months) humiliated and derided. Jon Stewart goes out (permanently, one hopes) the same day, but on a giant Comedy Homecoming King float, with a 21-gun salute from the media, his path strewn with roses and teardrops.
Why?
Brian Williams lied about his personal exploits a few times. Jon Stewart was unabashedly and habitually dishonest.
Though Stewart has often claimed he does a “fake news show,” “The Daily Show” isn’t that. It’s a real news show punctuated with puns, jokes, asides and the occasional moment of staged sanctimony.
It contains real, unstaged sound bites about the day’s events and interviews about important policy matters.
Stewart is a journalist: an irresponsible and unprofessional one.
He is especially beloved by others in the journo game. (For every 100 viewers, he generated about 10 fawning profiles in the slicks, all of them saying the same thing: The jester tells the truth!)
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4 comments:
Aww looks like little Kyle Smith, who wrote this, is upset that he did not get his own show. By the way, Stewart, who is light years better the journalist than Mr Smith, never chose sides. he was just as eager to go after the left as the right. He also, as the diminuative Mr Smith points out, never claimed to have a real news show. So what is the point of this self serving, angry article? HILARIOUS
He's a comedian. He's not a journalist. People need to get a clue.
"People need to get a clue." You just identified the problem. Obama's re-election is proof positive that these same idiots vote.
He is more honest than most. He leans left but unlike MSM his only spin is to show the wastefulness and hypocrisy that is our government. If I want rederict I will watch Fox or MSNBC. If I want news I will tune in to Daily Show.
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