Discussion for article #233693
He should also talk about the complicit media (aka MSM) that allows the conservatives who scream at them to alter how they do their reporting.
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“What matters to the right is discrediting anything that they believe harms their side”
What matters to the right is subjugation, pure and simple.
They’ve already legislated their entitlements, their welfare/subsidies, their voting privileges, their corporate advantages. They just want to make sure anyone or anything that remotely threatens any of those – e.g. scientists, unions, majority rule, Jon Stewart – stays down.
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How to harsh the mellow, dude. I think we can agree who’s the professional here. What we have in this clip is some of the clearest, most direct, destined-to-be-recognized-a-classic Stewart riff EVUH, and you want it red-lined ‘INCOMPLETE’? Yoiks.
You seem like someone’s first view of modern art, say Picasso’s Nude Descending Staircase complaining: Okay I’m getting the IMPRESSION of, well, a person, in motion, and sure, a female form, walking downwards, could be a staircase, but there are so many lines and colors and shades it’s all too much, too expressionistic; can’t this guy at least try to work it out first on a fruitbowl maybe, or a pet?’
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It’s a long drive-- deep to centerfield-- and-- it’s-- outta’here!
Jon Stewart goes yard for the Home Team!
jw1
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Fox News complaining about selective editing is like Duke Cunningham complaining about bribery and corruption.
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As I said, it’s gonna be rated a classic. It’s like all stuff this good is SO good it takes away some of the mind’s processing. And then, you watch again … and again (I’ve watched it 3 times already; it’s like the feeling when Paul Simon came out with Graceland - oh well, it’s rhymin’ Simon, we already know he’s good, so what’s the biggie? Uh, listen again, dude - and then check your DNA, because it’s been freakin’ altered.
There’s been lots and lots of times when I thought Stewart just didn’t quite get ‘it’ (I’ve never thought that about Colbert - that guy NEVER missed understanding American wingnuttia.), but this one earns him total amnesty from those letdowns. This one was Put It On A 45 And Spin It Perfect; this one was Stewart’s Gettysburg.
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Just my take-- but for me-- parody can be so much more effortless than satire.
Parody being obvious (to all but RWNJs apparently); satire requiring a hook, line, and sinker.
jw1
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Looking forward to seeing him take the gloves off more, so to speak, in his final months. Get it off your chest, Jon!
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He seems to be ramping it up before his departure. He usually tried to be diplomatic to a certain degree. Now it seems he’s going to leave the unfettered truth, flaming like a paper bag of poop, on the doorsteps of RWNJ-istan.
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…and a stinker (maybe?) 
The light at the end of the Rethug tunnel is the lamp at the start of the next one…
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Well, that sounds like it could be, in some general sense. But that’s got nothing to do with the artist’s underlying intelligence and sensitivity to what they’re doing. It doesn’t sit right to me that the dozens of times Stewart made me cringe because of his failure to understand some aspect of liberalism or socialism or the progressive movement or the pre-WWII labor movement or the importance of any of those to the bag of entitlements even self-styled conservatives consider rights, natural or ‘god-given’. Whereas, in contrast, I can’t recall even a single instance where Colbert displayed any failure at all to understand all that. I’d even go so far as to suggest Stewart is AWARE of this, and floats between a sort of honest broker-friend envy in wishing he had something more like Colbert’s sure-footedness with his political convictions (Stewart has said lots of things consistent with such a take.) while on the other hand thinking, because he doesn’t have that sense and understanding yet still trusts his own instincts, that Colbert’s prone to taking risks Stewart finds too dangerous.
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Well, he and his writing staff. I’m not being critical or trying to diminish Stewart’s ownership; it’s his inspiration, his choices of writers, his direction of their work, his choices on what to put in the show, his comfort with the material that matters most. But I am saying that there surely MUST be at least some writers on his staff that figure, Jeez, we don’t have the time we might have thought otherwise, it’s time to get all the best stuff we’ve got in us out to Stewart or else it might never get done.
Which, if my take is correct, or yours is, or some of both, suggests the next 6 months or however long there is to before he plays HIS out song might well end up being a huge whack of the best work of his career.
Vegas have odds on this?
He’s covered that before too. There are time constraints for the show as well, and a format that must be followed. Many of the interview segments at the end are really just promotions for books, movies, etc. All in all the staff and he do an outstanding job of exposing things.
You’re absolutely correct, and I should have acknowledged it. There are a team of people working to make the next several months before Stewart’s departure supremely effective months indeed.
Risks we may have never seen had Stewart not gone there first-- thus offering Colbert his vehicle.
What we’ll see IMHO in Colbert’s ensuing late-night career-- is likely a much-heightened version of what he may have only been in a parallel universe sans Stewart.
By that same token of your perspective-- on Stewart’s writing talent–
squeezing out everything possible ASAP-- as opportunity dissipates?
The Colbert Report could not have happened as it did in a Stewart-less vacuum.
jw1
FYI, had the American media dynamic remained conservative broadcast and print up against the remainder of pre-web broadcast and print we’d have a stinkier kettle of fish, Jon or no Jon. The third element of non-corporate web blogging broke the then seemingly inevitable and incipient dominance of fascist American Stalinism…the ping and pong of blogging and people like Jon and Colbert has been a thing of funny beauty and very American in the classic sense.
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“If any race of people should not have guilt about slavery, it’s Caucasians.”
In case you didn’t watch the clip, Rush Limbaugh actually said that. No, really - it’s on tape.
(Also, if you happen to be an Arby’s customer, there was something in there about pig anus and cheese (he may have still been talking about Limbaugh, but I don’t think so) - just thought you should know).
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