Jon Stewart on Crossfire

[astroglide]

raj? i like the guy but it's in spite of the bowtie.

[JC21]

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Stewart wants it both ways. He wants to hide behind his status as a "comedian" whenever someone confronts him as a partisan who throws softballs at Kerry, but then he wants us to take his political statements seriously as if he's something more than a mere comedian.

You can't have it both ways. Either we can't take him seriously and thus we shouldn't criticize his political stances and the way he favors Kerry, or we should accept his serious pronouncements on politics and hold him to his own standards. What he does want people to hear is his criticism of the media, and in this case, his political stance is irrelevent.

Typical.

natedogg

[/ QUOTE ]Daily Show is making fun of the media more than it makes fun of politics. And likewise, Stewart is criticizing the media, not the politicians. It's not his job to criticize the politicians. People aren't supposed to take his political pronouncements seriously, and Stewart doesn't expect us to. It is his criticism of the media that Stewart wants to express, and in this case, his political stance is irrelevent.

[CarlSpackler]

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That being said, can you think of one person you respect who wears a bow tie in modern times?

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Ben Stein - "Anyone?"