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Jon Stewart on Bernie. (Original Post) Ichingcarpenter Aug 2015 OP
Jon as always is spot on JackInGreen Aug 2015 #1
k&r nt Live and Learn Aug 2015 #2
Wow! Really? That's news to me. Unknown Beatle Aug 2015 #3
He IS crazy. So was Copernicus.n/t SusanaMontana41 Aug 2015 #15
Wasn't that after viewers had protested Stewart's mocking of Sanders merrily Aug 2015 #4
John's had a few bad moments Hydra Aug 2015 #10
He's behind Hillary. But, he is a huge talent and I've been a fan. merrily Aug 2015 #16
Notice that it's the Sen Sanders supporters that like Jon Stewart. nm rhett o rick Aug 2015 #5
I miss Jon already. RedSpartan Aug 2015 #6
Here... glinda Aug 2015 #7
Thank you for providing a link to source Maven Aug 2015 #8
Can you imagine if Jon Stewart did an actual campaign ad? Spitfire of ATJ Aug 2015 #9
Maybe we could stop judging people by how they look and listen to what they have to say. YOHABLO Aug 2015 #11
That's exactly what went through my mind while watching the Fox debate rocktivity Aug 2015 #12
Awwwww Shucky Ducky! progressoid Aug 2015 #13
I miss him more every minute that passes! Feeling the Bern Aug 2015 #14

JackInGreen

(2,975 posts)
1. Jon as always is spot on
Sat Aug 8, 2015, 04:05 AM
Aug 2015

That sensibility is already missed.
now im going to sit here and wait for the hate the rest of us have seen for saying some of the same things.

Gonna be a long night.

Unknown Beatle

(2,672 posts)
3. Wow! Really? That's news to me.
Sat Aug 8, 2015, 05:02 AM
Aug 2015

I never saw Bernie as anything but genuine. I had no idea that other people viewed Bernie as crazy or insincere.

Feel The Bern!

merrily

(45,251 posts)
4. Wasn't that after viewers had protested Stewart's mocking of Sanders
Sat Aug 8, 2015, 09:19 AM
Aug 2015

and before he referred to a photo of the Democratic field as Hillary Clinton and a bunch of other people? Also before Monday or Tuesday of his last week, when the Show up an old, perhaps photoshopped photo of Sanders' hair standing straight up and said no one can take your Presidential run seriously when your hair looks like your dick is stuck in a light socket?

Jon basically dismissed or ignored O'Malley, Webb and Chafee and excoriated Sanders. Also, he had Sanders on exactly once, in 2011, when Sanders was promoting the book that had been made of Sanders' filibuster slamming Republicans.

I am a huge fan of the Daily Show--watched and/or caught up with every show for years-- and also a huge fan of Jon Stewart's awe-inspiring intelligence and comedic timing and talent. However, if you compare how Jon treated Sanders with how he treated Hillary (and Bill and Chelsea), it could not be more clear where Jon's loyalties and affections lay. I will miss him greatly, but somewhat less because of how he has treated Sanders--except the time after an especially unfair segment drew many viewer protests.

Hydra

(14,459 posts)
10. John's had a few bad moments
Sat Aug 8, 2015, 10:50 PM
Aug 2015

But on the whole, I'm glad he was there and doing what he did for so long.

And luckily, the whole "Hillary is inevitable!" is working about as well for her as last time.

Maven

(10,533 posts)
8. Thank you for providing a link to source
Sat Aug 8, 2015, 09:35 PM
Aug 2015

so often people post these "quotation cards" without attribution. It's become way too commonplace here.

 

YOHABLO

(7,358 posts)
11. Maybe we could stop judging people by how they look and listen to what they have to say.
Sat Aug 8, 2015, 10:56 PM
Aug 2015

Jon more or less called Bernie a 'cuckoo bird'. Does he have a prevalence for Hillary?

rocktivity

(44,576 posts)
12. That's exactly what went through my mind while watching the Fox debate
Sat Aug 8, 2015, 11:39 PM
Aug 2015

"Bernie Sanders is the one who's the unsafe, untrustworthy, unbalanced, unrealistic, lunatic-fringed extremist radical?"


rocktivity

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