Tag: Jon Stewart
John McCain Says Goodbye to Jon Stewart
So long, jackass.
— Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), quoted by the New York Times, on Jon Stewart’s last show.
Hank Green Says It’s Not OK for the Mainstream Media to Snipe at YouTube Stars
If you missed it in the post-game coverage of the recent State of the Union speech, Pres. Obama broke new ground beyond perfecting presidential ad libs. He also agreed to one-on-one interviews with three YouTube stars, and one of them, Hank Green, isn’t happy with the way the “legacy” press corps treated the endeavor. Green’s article, posted on Medium, is titled “Holy Shit, I Interviewed the President.” It might have been better named, “Holy Shit, the Mainstream Media is Killing Democracy.”
Green: How does a democracy function with no credible system for informing its citizens?
CNN intro’d and outro’d every segment with Glozell [Green] in a bathtub full of cereal, as did ABC’s morning show…Even new media companies like Vice were dismissive:
“Think of it as a teeny-bopper AMA…The interviewers will be GloZell Green, who’s perhaps best known for sitting in a tub full of cereal; a 19-year-old who gives beauty advice named Bethany Mota; and Hank Green, a notorious YouTube ranter whose brother wrote The Fault in Our Stars.”
In Interview with Mike Huckabee, Jon Stewart Plays Clip of Huck Jamming on ‘Cat Scratch Fever’ with Ted Nugent
It was awfully polite of Jon Stewart not to bring up Mike Huckabee’s son, who tortured and killed a dog.
Stewart Grateful G.W. Bush Did Not Die in Office
I’m going to end on a note of gratitude — something I never thought that I would say. George W. Bush, thank you for not dying while you were in office.
— Jon Stewart, on former Vice President Dick Cheney’s defense of torture during the Bush administration.
In Which Jon Stewart Discovers That the Koch Brothers Have Taken Out Ads on His Show
The billionaire Koch brothers have been running feel-good, folksy image ads about their company, Koch Industries, the nation’s second largest privately held corporation, on liberal outlets, particularly MSNBC and now on Jon Stewart’s “The Daily Show,” on Comedy Central.
Stewart fired back with a parody of the brothers’ ad on his show this week. “Clearly,” Stewart said, “the Koch brothers are trying to say to our audience of not yet dying-off voters: ‘Even though you may have heard certain things about the Koch brothers, how bad could they be? I mean, if they were evil, would a baby agree to appear in one of their advertisements?’”
