Brian Williams lied about his personal exploits many times, but Jon Stewart was unabashedly and habitually dishonest. Any standard liberal publication was as likely to contain an unflattering thought about Stewart as L\u2019Osservatore Romano is to run a hit piece on the pope.<\/p>\n
Though Stewart has often claimed he does a \u201cfake news show,\u201d \u201cThe Daily Show\u201d isn\u2019t that. It\u2019s a real news show punctuated with puns, jokes, asides and the occasional moment of staged sanctimony.<\/p>\n
It contains real, unstaged sound bites about the days\u2019 events and interviews about important policy matters.<\/p>\n
Stewart is a journalist: an irresponsible and unprofessional one.<\/p>\n
Stewart uses his funnyman status as a license to dispense with even the most minimal journalistic standards. Get both sides of the story?<\/p>\n
Hey, I\u2019m just a comedian, man. Try to be responsible about what the real issues are? Dude, that\u2019s too heavy, we just want to set up the next d-\u200a-k joke.<\/p>\n
Stewart is often derided by the right as having minimal impact and low ratings. That\u2019s not true. He and Stephen Colbert ruled the late-night ratings among 18-to 34-year-olds for most of the last five years, though Jimmy Fallon has lately surpassed both.<\/p>\n
About 522,000 Americans in that age range watch \u201cThe Daily Show\u201d on an average night, but that means many millions of occasional viewers, with millions more watching clips online.<\/p>\n
To a key audience, he was a strong influence. Longtime Cooper Union history professor Fred Siegel says his students constantly came to him repeating Stewart\u2019s talking points.<\/p>\n
College students, of course, are both little acquainted with realities of adult existence and walled off from conservative views, so they\u2019re the perfect audience for Stewart\u2019s shtick, which depends on assumptions that are as unquestioned as they are false.<\/p>\n
Jon Stewart\u2019s defense of Brian Williams was \u201cThe Daily Show\u201d in a nutshell \u2013 laugh off a scandal and change the subject.<\/p>\n
Brian Williams has become a joke for telling lies, but Jon Stewart is a liar for the way he told jokes.<\/p>\n
Source: NYP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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