Wherein A Comedian Is Heir To Murrow
Jon Stewart is a comedian. Job number one: make people laugh.
But there is another Jon Stewart. This Jon Stewart has come to realize that his comedy/satire news program, The Daily Show is more credible than the so-called journalists of “serious” networks. This Jon Stewart laid the ever-lovin’ smackdown on Tucker Carlson and Paul Begala of Crossfire. Stewart didn’t just slap them around, verbally. He castrated them on their own show, calling them out for their role in sullying the public discourse.
And recently, this Jon Stewart struck again. I need not elaborate overmuch; the war of words with Jim Cramer is all over the internet. But as tonight’s show proved, it wasn’t about Cramer; it was about the financial “news” network CNBC‘s silence and complicity in the U.S.’s financial collapse, and their refusal to investigate the soulless thieves who enriched themselves while spitting lies through their lizard smiles as guests on CNBC.
It is a sad (and often remarked upon) sign of our times that it takes a comedian to tell us the truth, to stand up and demand honest answers, and to point out the lies we’re being told by our news-for-profit propaganda shows.
It’s a good thing, then, that we have the two Jon Stewarts.
Tags: Musings, News/Media
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March 15th, 2009 at 2:16 PM
Great Post. And, not everyone at NBC networks is being quiet or complicit on the matter–Keith Olbermann’s response via Twitter:
“Every1 is asking what I think about the Cramer/Stewart brewhaw. I say Stewart pretty much summed up my feelings on the situation.@ CNBC.”