“Did the president just quit?”

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Jon Stewart captures the national mood, taking on both Congress (Monday night) and the President (last night):

 

9 thoughts on ““Did the president just quit?”

  1. gahrie

    One of the most distressing things about today’s culture is the fact that people actually get their news from this clown, and other people cite him like his schtick matters.

    He’s a comic.

  2. Brendan Loy Post author

    Really, that’s “one of the most distressing things about today’s culture”? Really? It wouldn’t even make my Top 200 list. There are a lot of distressing things about today’s culture!!

    Besides, better Stewart than Hannity or Beck or Olbermann, I say.

    If the “real” national broadcast news media — Left, Right and Center — weren’t, by and large, such worthless “clowns,” perhaps folks wouldn’t turn to Jon Stewart. The vast and ongoing failure of modern journalism is a far more “distressing thing about today’s culture” than people watching a comedy show, IMHO.

  3. gahrie

    Really, that’s “one of the most distressing things about today’s culture”? Really? It wouldn’t even make my Top 200 list.

    I would posit that a large number of your top 200 had/have the same causes as the Stewart phenomena…a disconnect between effort and reward; and a desire for instant gratification.

    Besides, better Stewart than Hannity or Beck or Olbermann, I say.

    In my book they are exactly the same, and no one should be using them as a source of news.

    If the “real” national broadcast news media — Left, Right and Center — weren’t, by and large, such worthless “clowns,”

    You’ll get no argument with me here.

  4. Alasdair

    gahrie – I have a number of Democrat-leaning friends who keep sending me cut-and-pasted ThinkProgress and DailyKos items (but without the associated URL) about GOP policy being made by David Duke and Glen Beck … for whatever reason, they don’t seem to realise that neither of those is an elected GOP politician …

    When I respond with counter-information, whether from WaPo or pretty much any other major media, the response is either to ignore the point or whinney about “Biased media” … (grin) … (when it’s WaPo/LAT/NYT, I have to agree with that point) …

    They don’t seem to realise that, when a biased source says that 2+2=4, that biased source is actually correct – and the source’s bias doesn’t negate the correctness …

  5. Alasdair

    Just a thought …

    Is it time, yet, to start referring to August 2, 2011, (coincidentally, my birthday), as Obama’s Karma-geddon ?

  6. Brendan Loy Post author

    August 2, 2011, (coincidentally, my birthday)

    I KNEW this was all your fault somehow, Alasdair! 🙂

  7. James Young

    I think he meant most distressing in the sense that it’s proof our journalistic system is very broken, not that Stewart himself as a vehicle.

    Doesn’t quite make my 200 list either, however. But I had such high hopes about our society as a child.

  8. Alasdair

    (sigh) It’s also when Saddam Hussein decided it was time to take back the errant Iraqi province known as Kuwait, back in the 1990s …

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