Jon Stewart is a Sekret Terrorist: Will Kill Nation with Comedy

[evildevil]

Rightwing Alert: Guns Dont Kill People, Comedians Kill People.

Conservative Magazine Names Jon Stewart 28th 'Most Dangerous Liberal' In America

The conservative magazine Townhall put out a list of the "most dangerous liberals in America," and named Jon Stewart as #28.
Colbert is gonna be pissed. (Why is Stephen Colbert NOT on that list? I demand a

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[lafinjack]

I figure Townhall considers Colbert one of their own.

Wouldn't be the first time:

[ladylothwen]

.....wut.

whose the most dangerous?

[doverz]

It's not Stewart's fault that he makes sane, thought-provoking arguments that criticize both sides. And really, if he criticizes Republicans more, it's because their politicians/media give him so much more ammo to use.

[doverz]

Although, I do agree that his "I'm just a comedian" card is annoying when he's clearly so much more.

[homasse]

I don't think he wants to be, though. I sometimes get the feeling the "I'm just a comedian" is him trying to convince himself of that--like if he says it enough, it'll be true again.

[doverz]

Very true. Although, I think he has to realize that can't happen anymore.

[doe_witch]

lol, Jon Stewart might've had some transformative power back during the Crossfire throwdown, but at this point with his false equivalency shenanigans it's been demonstrated that he can't accomplish shit. If he's a dangerous liberal it's only because his voice is one of the ones holding liberals back.

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[maxvinyl]

agreed, especially on the last point.

[haruhiko]

Lmao ILU

[amazingname]

Conservatives would know all about it, considering Glenn Beck hides behind that exact same line (he sometimes modifies it to say he is only an entertainer).

I read somewhere once, I don't remember where, that there is a subtle yet endlessly important difference between Glenn Beck and Jon Stewart. Stewart's show is a news show that carries itself as a comedy. Beck's show is a comedy that holds itself up as a news show.

The difference is pretty easily supported: Stewart is on Comedy Central, Beck is on Fox News.

I do agree that Stewart is quite influential with younger voters, largely because anecdotal evidence from my own life supports that a lot of young voters watch the Daily Show as their only source of non-campus related news. That said, not one of them would claim that Stewart wasn't trying to be funny first and foremost.

I've yet to hear a Beck fan say the same.

[thenakedcat]

Agreed. I think the "clown nose on, clown nose off" statement in the original article is pretty disingenuous, as Jon Stewart himself makes it quite obvious when he's going from Funny to Serious--recent example, his interview with illness-plagued 9/11 responders about the near failure of the Zadroga Bill was in a clearly different persona than the commentary on the lame-duck session that preceded it. Stephen Colbert steps out of character much less frequently, but it's equally obvious when he does. The last minute or so of his testimony on immigration reform is as stunningly sincere as the rest of it was satirical.

[windy_lea]

This is definitely an interesting way of expressing that. I feel I agree on many points; I mostly see Stewart's choice to continue 'playing the clown' as his way of trying to make clear that he knows he shouldn't be folks' primary news source, even if he does provide useful commentary. At the same time, I'd like him to acknowledge in a more direct way that he is, whether he desires it or not, more than a clown. I feel the closest he got was that time he'd addressed Fox News' calling him out by retorting that they'd made such a joke of themselves that he--as a joker--has to be the more serious guy. Well, that's not what he said; that's how I interpreted what he said. Much better at remembering perceived sentiment than actual words.