Post by Optimus on Apr 22, 2022 22:08:55 GMT -5
Good piece in The Atlantic lamenting Stewart's apparent death spiral from reasonable, intellectual liberal stalwart into pathetic attention-whoring shell of his former self, desperately thirsty for the approval of deranged woke progressives. It's not just Colbert who's fallen off the deep end (though I don't think Stewart is quite that bad...yet).
www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2022/04/the-problem-with-jon-stewart-tucker-carlson/629608/
I think one problem is that Stewart had an incredibly talented writers group back in his Daily Show days, and doesn't have that now. Also, he's not really relevant anymore, and certainly not close to the degree he was 15 years ago, and he's grasping desperately at straws to try to recapture a modern audience.
To do this, it seems that Stewart has very recently jerked the wheel to the far left so fast you'd think he saw a deer in the middle of the road. He's had two episodes in the past month where he spent a large amount of time blaming whitey for everything. And the paragraph above that mentions Stewart making a fool of himself in front of experts by blabbering on about shit he doesn't actually understand happened again when he did a segment on farming and interviewed Cory Booker.
Stewart claimed that financial aid/relief for farmers (including black farmers) was blocked in the Senate by...white farmers...um...somehow? Booker corrected him by saying that white farmers had nothing to do with it, only for Stewart to deny it and continue foaming at the mouth with his obviously rehearsed woke talking points. Apparently Stewart doesn't understand that large corporate farming companies are the ones with all the lobbying money...not poor, working class farmers (white, black, or any other race).
Gotta love when white woke liberals lecture non-whites on racial issues (and, in this case, issues that aren't actually racial). It's a casual form of narcisstic intellectual racism that they don't even realize that they engage in.
Here's a clip of that exchange:
www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2022/04/the-problem-with-jon-stewart-tucker-carlson/629608/
Stewart’s specific genius on The Daily Show was layering facts and complexity into jokes, and stitching punch lines together into George Carlin–esque political riffs. When Stewart was at the peak of his powers, no one could pack more ideas into 22 minutes of comedy. But something has turned. Now he’s the one who seems overwhelmed by complexity and prone to oversimplification. He’s the one who gets called out for fumbling facts, for missing the point, for being out of touch. It’s not just that Tucker Carlson has struck back with a Stewart-proof breed of sophistry. It’s not just that topical comedy doesn’t work as well as it used to. The problem with The Problem With Jon Stewart is Jon Stewart himself.
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This did not move Swisher, who surely considers it her job to bring clarity to a noisy conversation. She pressed him on why he didn’t turn around a fast episode on Ukraine, settling instead for a months-old rehash of the GameStop saga at a time when the world is facing the greatest threat of nuclear annihilation since maybe 1983. He responded by likening the media to “8-year-olds playing soccer,” an answer that is about as intellectually rigorous as seeing something you don’t like and calling it “fake news” or “clickbait.”
“Not climbing on the moment is an advantage, not a disadvantage, for the types of things we want to talk about,” Stewart had insisted at one point in the conversation. If this just sounds like an excuse for complacency, Swisher seemed to think so too. “I don’t mean to say ‘Has time passed you by?’ but …” she began, then trailed off, which drew a huge cackle from Stewart.
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More than once already, Stewart has dedicated an entire episode to a subject, only to have an actual expert on that subject call him out for getting it wrong. The first time, a Wall Street Journal editor took exception to the mess Stewart made trying to summarize the GameStop saga—and, seriously, go watch the episode if you want to understand it less than before you watched—and to his portrayal of Redditors as folk heroes schooling the elites. Days later, Stewart got aired out by a Gimlet Media climate-change reporter for having argued, incorrectly, that recycling doesn’t work (plastic recycling doesn’t work; paper and metal recycling work great) and for going too easy on oil companies.
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This did not move Swisher, who surely considers it her job to bring clarity to a noisy conversation. She pressed him on why he didn’t turn around a fast episode on Ukraine, settling instead for a months-old rehash of the GameStop saga at a time when the world is facing the greatest threat of nuclear annihilation since maybe 1983. He responded by likening the media to “8-year-olds playing soccer,” an answer that is about as intellectually rigorous as seeing something you don’t like and calling it “fake news” or “clickbait.”
“Not climbing on the moment is an advantage, not a disadvantage, for the types of things we want to talk about,” Stewart had insisted at one point in the conversation. If this just sounds like an excuse for complacency, Swisher seemed to think so too. “I don’t mean to say ‘Has time passed you by?’ but …” she began, then trailed off, which drew a huge cackle from Stewart.
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More than once already, Stewart has dedicated an entire episode to a subject, only to have an actual expert on that subject call him out for getting it wrong. The first time, a Wall Street Journal editor took exception to the mess Stewart made trying to summarize the GameStop saga—and, seriously, go watch the episode if you want to understand it less than before you watched—and to his portrayal of Redditors as folk heroes schooling the elites. Days later, Stewart got aired out by a Gimlet Media climate-change reporter for having argued, incorrectly, that recycling doesn’t work (plastic recycling doesn’t work; paper and metal recycling work great) and for going too easy on oil companies.
I think one problem is that Stewart had an incredibly talented writers group back in his Daily Show days, and doesn't have that now. Also, he's not really relevant anymore, and certainly not close to the degree he was 15 years ago, and he's grasping desperately at straws to try to recapture a modern audience.
To do this, it seems that Stewart has very recently jerked the wheel to the far left so fast you'd think he saw a deer in the middle of the road. He's had two episodes in the past month where he spent a large amount of time blaming whitey for everything. And the paragraph above that mentions Stewart making a fool of himself in front of experts by blabbering on about shit he doesn't actually understand happened again when he did a segment on farming and interviewed Cory Booker.
Stewart claimed that financial aid/relief for farmers (including black farmers) was blocked in the Senate by...white farmers...um...somehow? Booker corrected him by saying that white farmers had nothing to do with it, only for Stewart to deny it and continue foaming at the mouth with his obviously rehearsed woke talking points. Apparently Stewart doesn't understand that large corporate farming companies are the ones with all the lobbying money...not poor, working class farmers (white, black, or any other race).
Gotta love when white woke liberals lecture non-whites on racial issues (and, in this case, issues that aren't actually racial). It's a casual form of narcisstic intellectual racism that they don't even realize that they engage in.
Here's a clip of that exchange: