With the news that Jon Stewart met secretly with President Obama, it’s getting a little difficult for Team America to keep us all convinced that the United States has a free press. Politico’s revelation that Stewart was providing slanted coverage for Obama policies means it is time to take Stewart off his pedestal.
I can say this without malice because I voted for Obama twice. I also used to be a religious viewer of The Daily Show, and its spinoff, The Colbert Report. Up until the Ukraine crisis, I was a good little Democrat, I swear. I even went to the “Rally to Restore Sanity” in in Washington D.C. in 2010.
As the investigative report reveals, Obama and his aides “took unusual steps to cultivate ‘Daily Show’ comic, during at least one crucial time of Obama’s presidency”:
“In February 2014, Obama again requested Stewart make the trip from Manhattan to the White House, this time for a mid-morning visit hours before the president would go before television cameras to warn Russia that “there will be costs” if it made any further military intervention in Ukraine.”
And lo and behold, on the very next Daily Show, Stewart’s commentary included:
“a segment titled ‘It’s a Vlad, Vlad, Vlad, Vlad World,’ [where] Stewart giggled as he displayed a picture of the shirtless Russian leader — ‘Heil Titler,’ he joked. Then he showed a video of Vladimir Putin at the Winter Olympics in Sochi and wondered if he was ‘even paying attention at the Olympics? … Or did you consider the parade of nations a browsing opportunity?’” Full story...
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I can say this without malice because I voted for Obama twice. I also used to be a religious viewer of The Daily Show, and its spinoff, The Colbert Report. Up until the Ukraine crisis, I was a good little Democrat, I swear. I even went to the “Rally to Restore Sanity” in in Washington D.C. in 2010.
As the investigative report reveals, Obama and his aides “took unusual steps to cultivate ‘Daily Show’ comic, during at least one crucial time of Obama’s presidency”:
“In February 2014, Obama again requested Stewart make the trip from Manhattan to the White House, this time for a mid-morning visit hours before the president would go before television cameras to warn Russia that “there will be costs” if it made any further military intervention in Ukraine.”
And lo and behold, on the very next Daily Show, Stewart’s commentary included:
“a segment titled ‘It’s a Vlad, Vlad, Vlad, Vlad World,’ [where] Stewart giggled as he displayed a picture of the shirtless Russian leader — ‘Heil Titler,’ he joked. Then he showed a video of Vladimir Putin at the Winter Olympics in Sochi and wondered if he was ‘even paying attention at the Olympics? … Or did you consider the parade of nations a browsing opportunity?’” Full story...
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