when I was a lib I used to like The Daily Show because it was kinda cathartic to watch them mock conservatives.
However I remember one episode where they were covering a story about students at Berkeley protesting the marines opening up a recruiting office on campus, and basically the entire segment was them shitting on these kids. The students were anti-war and didn't want the US military recruiting future killers on their campus. The Daily Show even had their news correspondent Rob Riggle (retired marine) interviewing students and trapping them in ridiculous "gotchas" to make them look dumb. It was one of the first moments as a baby leftist where I was like "wait... why are they doing this? those kids are right to not want the military at their school." And watching this thickneck piece of shit Riggle bully young people who obviously don't know enough to "debate" him while a camera is shoved in their face was infuriating.
Then later I watched Stewart perform at USO shows in Iraq and Afghanistan (among other places) to entertain these imperialist tools and I just lost any shred of respect I still had for him. He even had that awful "Rally to Restore Sanity" event in D.C. which was effectively a giant centrist circlejerk that accomplished absolutely nothing. I haven't even paid attention to anything he's done since but I'm not the least bit surprised that he's still a dipshit.
Cringe. I listened during Trevor Noah’s time, and it was part of my SocDem phase in podcasts. It was fun to hear them dunk on the Cons. The foreign policy takes stunk though. I remember an episode where they were shitting on Kim Jong Un for crying as he congratulated his people on dealing with Covid well. “It’s not like they could elect another leader.”
These liberal hosts are all a bunch of anti-communist reactionaries, many are also Zionists.
Indeed. The article is pathetically low on details, but it wouldn't surprise me if Stewart actually cut ties because they didn't want him doing an hour of sissypea bashing on the flimsiest horseshit and he didn't back down. I'm sure he'd feel all smug and self-righeous about it too, the hwite hero of a billion and half oppressed chinese.
Stewart's pet project is defending the emergency service workers who participated during WTC attacks. If he really gave a shit he'd be speaking out against usian military endeavours at every turn so that such an attack wouldn't happen again, yet he's nowhere to be found.
I still remember when Conan O'Brien was doing weekly or almost daily jokes about the DPRK. Then he did an IDF publicity video.
Great, now I can’t unsee this. THANKS. Conan Trains With The Women Of The Israel Defense Forces
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
I cannot believe how my fellow Americans—even my PMC peers—have never figured out that our military-industrial complex is not keeping us safe, as evidenced by the two smouldering piles where our most iconic towers once stood in our premier city. Like, the concept of blowback is just absent, it seems.
I guess he wants to take the title of most racist and xenophobic liberal away from Maher.
I don't think Maher has pinned a medal on a nazi as of yet, so there's that difference.
Though I wouldn't put it past him.
It's funnier for me to believe that they took his show away because he was too cool about China
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