How Jon Stewart Helped Royally Screw 500,000 Black People
As Jon Stewart‘s 16-year run as influential host of The Daily Show comes to an end this week, it has become all the rage to look back at the targets of his satirical death ray and assess the effects of his influence. On his next-to-last broadcast, Stewart did a bit of this himself, and concluded that all of his “eviscerations” hadn’t amounted to much in the way of tangible change. Sadly, he’s not completely correct about that, because there is at least one seismic change that he can lay partial claim to.
I’ve been a fan of Jon Stewart ever since he co-hosted Short Attention Span Theater back when Comedy Central was The Comedy Channel (and then Ha!), but it was his reinvention of The Daily Show that left its mark with me, as with many others. I remain a big fan of Jon Stewart’s, and of The Daily Show, so much so that being part of a Moment of Zen remains one of the highlights of my career:
It is sadly ironic that in assessing the power of Jon Stewart’s influence, the one thing that stands out is the time he most badly misused it…READ MORE
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By: Tommy Christopher
Tommy Christopher is The Daily Banter's White House Correspondent and Political Analyst. He's been a political reporter and liberal commentator since 2007, and has covered the White House since the beginning of the Obama administration, first for PoliticsDaily, and then for Mediaite. Christopher is a frequent guest on a variety of television, radio, and online programs, and was the villain in the documentaries The Audacity of Democracy and Hating Breitbart. He's also That Guy Who Live-Tweeted His Own Heart Attack, and the only person to have ever received public apologies from both Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.
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