Why Jon Stewart leaving terrifies me
Ok, I realize that even though the mantle of newcaster was thrown on him, he never wanted that role. One of the best example of real news on TV was when he was talking to Jim Cramer, and he said "I am supposed to be the guy doing fart jokes" and you could tell that he was sad that this idiot that CNBC hired was claiming all the respect of a journalist, but did less fact checking than a bucnh of comedy writers. What was worse is that the audience did not care.
Now, I am sure Jon wants to avoid being one of those comics that supposedly stays too long. We all remember how they did everything but boil Johnny Carson into glue onstage, despite the fact that NOBODY has even come close to makign the tonight show what it was under him. Yeah, I bring that example up because, yes, you can point out neither Carson nor Stewart were the orginal hosts, and that yes, both shows went on to have long lives. However, Jon had the ability to skewer both the news and the newsmakers, to say "look, this should be a fart joke, but what you privileged idiots do is actually sillier, and it is funnier, despite the fact it should make people cry."
What scares me is the timing. Look, The Koch brothers are not even pretending to use the GOP as cover, they plan to outspend both political parties, in order to make Scott Walker President. This is a guy who was skewered by comedians doing a complete ASS KISS to someone he thought was a Koch. Do we want THIS in the Oval Office?
This is not a joke. It is not even funny
Anmd what woprries me is that if we are going to have multi billion dollar bullshiut, THAT is when we need Jon Stewart. It does not matter who they get, they will gnaw at that person till they are crippled or dead, even if they get some old seasoned hand like Lewis Black or Denis Leary. And if they put a new face in, they will ratchet it up.
And sorry to say, if Hillary is running, she will be all the more happy to see the Daily Show die, because she and her Hubby are great targets for it.
Abot the only bright spot is that someone at FOX is probably thinking "hey, we can put Kennedy and Dennis Miller on and steal the throne." If they do that, it will be transparent as hell.
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