Thursday, November 1, 2012

Do Liberals think John Stewart makes them informed and smarter?

Do Liberals think John Stewart makes them informed and smarter?
Ed Lasky points us to this revealing article from Commentary Magazine's blog by James Kirchick that proves John Stewart doesn't know squat about foreign policy. The scary part is that Stewart's Daily Show is taken as gospel by millions of under 30 dimwitted Americans who believe the world is straight man to Stewart's comic "genius." Hezb'allah, of course, has several attacks credited to them outside of Lebanon, specifically the bombing of a Jewish community center in Argentina -an attack that killed 85 people and is considered the worst terrorist attack in that country's history. And Hamas has been involved in international terror since its founding, funnelling money gleaned from "charity" groups all over the world to violent Palestinian terrorists in Syria and elsewhere. The fact that Stewart was either unaware of these facts shows that the joke is on him. Scott, you are correct 100% and these ObamaCrats are still blaming Palin's cross hairs for the AZ shooting! (Pathetic)
Politics - 12 Answers
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1 :
So you get your opinions from a blog on an obscure magazine website? I think the real question is, do conservatives think random gibberish lends their attack rants credence?
2 :
What's really scary is that so many people are willing to form their opinions based on nightly comedy routines. I have no problem with John Stewart. He's a funny (if misguided) guy. The problem is that the dumb-masses actually use his comedy show as a news source. What's next? Are we going to start getting parenting advice from Charlie Sheen?
3 :
ITS A COMEDY SHOW!! you are the one who is taking jokes as being "facts"
4 :
Uh, ya, cause foreign policy is going so well now and in the past few decades.
5 :
So, this guy simply says that Jon Stewart doesn't know anything about foreign policy, and you take that as some kind of irrefutable fact of life? Dude, I'm not even a liberal and I understand why they laugh at your lack of logic.
6 :
Well, like it or not, the topics that Jon Stewart speaks about are all newsworthy and he speaks hard truths from both sides of the aisle. But, it is a comedy show, so of course they don't think it makes them informed or smarter. It makes them laugh. The point of the Jon Stewart show is that the politics we see today are silly and very laughable. These idiots in Washington are a bunch of morons and Stewart points this out. If you don't like Stewart, then don't watch him. Many republicans watch his show too by the way, because Stewart makes fun of both parties. If it's laughable, he'll make a joke out of it.
7 :
It's a sad commentary when comedians present the news more accurately than a whole TV network devoted to it.
8 :
Easy big fella, the one thing the left will defend even over the President is Jon Stewart, because he delivers the news with a laugh. They will tell you it's a comedy show, so leave him alone, what they don't tell you it's comedy propaganda show sponsored by the liberal left.
9 :
And of course everything that comes out of the Israeli propaganda machine (for example the unproven allegation that Hezb'allah was involved in the Argentina attacks in '92 and '94) is gospel truth?
10 :
I think most people realize that Jon Stewart is a comedy show and don't take him for the gospel. While on the other hand there are several out there (I'm not naming names) that rely on Glenn Beck to keep them informed. FOX news advertises him as a true commentator and a lot of people do believe what he says. Even to the extent of buying 'food insurance' that he advertises. At least with Jon you know it's comedy. With Beck, well lets just say that I find him hilarious.
11 :
Nobody takes The Daily Show as gospel. They take it as comedy. His job is to take what people say and to show them how they are hypocrites or otherwise stupid.
12 :
Those aren't news pages in front of him, it's the script. :make funny face, turn left: :pause for yuk-strip: :hold for a three count: :increase volume, be sarcastic: :shake head & throw arms up: :begin again, slowly: :spin around in chair: :look to camera on right: :wait for yuk-strip: :hold for six count this time: :cut to commercial: An actor people, (he has writers), not a political intellectual, only posing as a pundit in a genre of comedy. Without his writers, he's as lost as anybody else. Lets see him on Jeopardy.



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