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.”
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.
lol libs fighting other libs
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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
Takes pinkwashing to a whole new level.
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.
because they didn’t want him doing an hour of sissypea bashing on the flimsiest horseshit and he didn’t back down.
Ah yes. They. They who want to make sure any communist state is represented fairly and any reporting on them is factual and not full of lib ideology. We should thank them for upholding the integrity of a true communist state.
Everyone thank the comrades at… fucking Apple Inc??
You aren’t that bright I see. That’s the point, apple doesn’t give two shits what their people say except if it hurts the bottom line. There are no good guys between apple and Stewart, the only thing of note is that if true, Stewart is so sinophobic that if he didn’t get to do sinophobic rants and convince people to beat China in the AI race, he wouldn’t have a show at all.
Apple can get huge R&D grants if the USAs relationship with China sours further. Apple represents the USA, the USA doesn’t have an AI technology sector independent of the big Silicon Valley companies. Apple pushing for Sinophobia, being indifferent to Sinophobia, or being weary of non-factual reporting driven by Sinophobia hurting their business relationships in or with China are all plausible situations where motifs can be shown.
Oh I got your “point”. It’s just not a real point. After all, you introduced us as a completely personal assumption without any evidence to back it up. It’s your own fanfiction of what must be going on.
It’s an utter fantasy you created out of thin air. But you put so little thought into it, you didn’t think of the implications of your statement. You used vague language and didn’t think through who the players were and what interests they actually and reasonably would have.
Now you’re in the position where to defend your original, poorly thought out fictional assumption, you need to double down on championing fucking Apple Inc. as a friend and defender of China. If you really think Apple Inc of all fucking companies put their foot down because of Sinophpbia, I have a bridge to sell you.
You’re inventing false information, and don’t seem to realize how much undue credence you’re giving a trillion dollar company in order to rush to hate Jon Stewart. You just had a preconceived notion and then invented absolute bullshit to justify your kneejerk hate, and participate in the Two Minute Hate that is this comment section.
Apple acting in accordance with its interests, given that it does business in China, is too shocking to be believed?
Tell us more about the bridge. Does it bear enough load for me to drive a T-34 over it, and once I get to the opposite side from the libs will it burn easily?
Aww did lib Jesus get a booboo?
It’s funnier for me to believe that they took his show away because he was too cool about China
Good. Bye bye loser and fascist apologist.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
But ahead of production kicking off on the show’s third season, Stewart and Apple have reportedly parted ways over “creative differences,” and The Problem is coming to an end.
Though new episodes of the show were scheduled to begin shooting in just a few weeks, staffers learned today that production had been halted.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, ahead of its decision to end The Problem, Apple approached Stewart directly and expressed its need for the host and his team to be “aligned” with the company’s views on topics discussed.
Rather than falling in line when Apple threatened to cancel the show, Stewart reportedly decided to walk.
The Times’ report doesn’t detail what about the show’s planned coverage of artificial intelligence and China prompted Apple’s executive leadership to butt heads with Stewart.
But considering how pointed criticality is a big part of what ultimately made The Problem With Jon Stewart a hit for Apple TV Plus and how maintaining a cordial relationship with China is crucial to Apple’s future plans for growth, it doesn’t come as a shock to see the show hit the chopping block this way.
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This bot is a good idea, but it should always start with the opening sentence of the article. Idk if the dev is reading comments.
