I don't have to hate J Stew

[Johonny]

He has some of the best comedy writers in the business writing for him. He has introduced to the country some of the best and funniest satirist currently working. The number of comedic actors that have gone through his show and now are successful is truly staggering. The Daily show is class organization that finds, produces, and nurtures talent. On that alone I respect Jon.

I just don't have to agree with anybodies opinions all the time. I get it Jon longs for a world where the right and the left have opinions, they hammer them out and the media treats all opinions with the basic who, what, where, when, why of journalism. I like unicorns too. I'm not expecting a unicorn for Christmas. I'm certainly not expecting Republicans to negotiate and pontificate in good faith. Why? Because they haven't for years. They have a whole network of media designed to tell one story and the othersides story too. How often is the "liberal" side nothing but a made up strawman by the RW media? Often. What Jon hears as noise of two sides fighting is often the noise of one side fighting with a strawman. The small "liberal" opinionists generally aren't cheerleaders for a party. Rachel has spent like the past year hammer the Whitehouse over DADT. You think Fox does stuff like that? Bill Maher hammered J Stew last week. He was on the money, Jon came out and oddly doubled down on a bad bet. It didn't work. Comparing FDR to Bush might work in the world of 1 sentence TV answers, but it doesn't work for anyone that can think once the show is over. I do dislike George Bush, not because he made a few mistakes as president but because he openly lied to me on every aspect of his Whitehouses decisions. He had zero respect for me. He openly called me unpatriotic, unAmerican, naive, a class trader, stupid etc. Had Bush once in 8 years did something to make me think he believes those not in the top 2% were worth more than a pubic louse, I might like him a little.

The other problem with Jon's point of view is opinion has some place in the world. Many people have ideas but can't express them or simply don't understand a policy position. Such as say why do liberals want higher tax brackets to pay more? Because we hate the rich and want class warfare. That's the strawman the RW says liberals want. No of course not. I don't hate the rich. I want estate taxes and progressive income tax because they're sound economic policy and have been recognized as such for over 100 years. Fact based opinion has some value.

Hey I disagreed with J Stew on ACORN, thought his financial ideas were actually as poor as the financial news he bashed, Climategate, thought him allowing Freakonicsguy trash real climate scientists while never having them on was classless, get bored and change the channel when he has RW no nothings on, thought it odd a man known for letting his guests talk to seem so abusive to Harry Reid,... so what. I don't have to agree with people 100 percent of the time. I don't have to hate people I don't agree with. I laughed last night at the Daily Show. Why? The shows funny and Jon's good at it. I also agree with him a lot of the times too. I think that was kind of his point last night. I disagree with Jon on this but I don't hate him over this. Now Gallagher, that guy I hate.

[mzmolly]

1. I don't think anyone here hates JStew.

I think most find him an idealist who wants a world that will never exist. ;)

I'm a huge fan. He's brilliant. He's funny as hell. But, he's missing the boat lately.

[warrior1]

2. It's Jon Stewart

[SargeUNN]

3. This is the problem in our nation

If we disagree with someone on any point then we HATE them. For goodness sakes, we can disagree without hating, we can respect something about someone and disagree with them on other things. This post points to how dumb down we are when we say such as this.