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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI completely understand why Jon Stewart is leaving. I can barely watch The Daily Show now
There is nothing wrong with the quality of the show. Jon and crew never fail to deliver 1,000% every single day.
But I can no longer tolerate hearing even one second of Hannity or O'Reilly or Beck etc. Even when Jon is giving them a Class A skewering, it's starting to feel less and less worth it.
I was thinking about this last night, and realized: He has to actually watch this crap, every day, finding joke opportunities. I'm just getting little snippets and it drives me crazy!
I'm going to miss the mortal hell out of him, but I'm looking forward to a break from wingnuttery too!!!
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)arcane1
(38,613 posts)That's enough!
Cirque du So-What
(25,989 posts)like being able to get baked during lunch hour without repercussions from management.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)That would explain a lot!
randome
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arcane1
(38,613 posts)CincyDem
(6,404 posts)...thank god that one is over. Seriously, I didn't realize how stressed it was making me until I left. Painful.
Now it's Spotify all day for this one.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)Glad you made it through alive!!
CincyDem
(6,404 posts)All I could think was "free at last, free at last...thank god almighty free at last". I know it was intended for a different situation but it sure felt right when 12pm EST rolled around and I didn't have to worry about losing my lunch listening to el-Rushbo.
Seriously - one of the things that it taught me was the degree to which I could always see their strategy by listening to what they accused the "lefties" of doing. If they said "lefties are trying to suppress the vote" - I always knew that was their rethug strategy for the week. Sometimes I'd hear about the left's war on women...or the left's blatant racism vis-a-vis Ferguson...or the left's treasonous behavior in not wanting to bomb Iran back into the 10th century (which by their calculations is only about 50 years...never mind that, independent of political philosophy, Iran's top politicians made it through some pretty tough US universities).
Once I could listen to this chit as "entertainment" the way one youtubes a train wreck, it became tolerable. But that took me about 3 months. Before that, I was ready to f'ing shoot myself even night on the way home. I felt like I was on the edge of road rage because I spend the afternoon listening to that crap.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)Welcome to relative sanity!
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)appalachiablue
(41,179 posts)Savage a few times on the radio in the car I could barely make it home. Any left news that starts using too much Fox style material and I'm gone.
CincyDem
(6,404 posts)Listened a few times and made me want to puncture my eardrums. What a loon.
appalachiablue
(41,179 posts)welfare fatties and Islamo-Fascist Obama is more than I can take. The police should charge for DUIH, driving under the influence of HATE, for distressed, dangerous road ragers who listen to him and others. He was banned in the UK for his talk, why can't we do that here? Cuz of RW Freedum!?
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)I kind of feel like since Jon is jumping ship, that his writers are doing so as well. Larry Wilmore's show is dull and somewhat tedious. It's not working for me. It's hard to replace Steven Colbert indeed. But you also have to have good writers.
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)When I do watch it, I just catch the opening monologue then go to sleep. It was too repetitious.... same thing every night.
Unknown Beatle
(2,672 posts)I never tire of watching The Daily Show and it's because of John Stewart.
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