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Last Daily Show with Jon Stewart Airs Tonight
Whether you love him or hate him, tonight marks Jon Stewart’s final taping of The Daily Show as he steps down as host – a position he’s held for 16 years. During that time, the show has won 20 Emmy Awards, two Peabody Awards, and Stewart even managed to win a Grammy for himself in 2005 for the recording of his audiobook, America, A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction.
Despite the fact Stewart has always claimed The Daily Show is just a fake news show, the influence he’s had on politics and the media cannot be denied.
In October of 2004, Stewart appeared on CNN’s Crossfire where he heavily criticized the state of journalism and called the show’s hosts, Tucker Carlson and Paul Begala, “partisan hacks.” Stewart commented that the show failed to educate and inform its viewers by not taking politics seriously, stating that calling Crossfire a debate show is like "saying pro wrestling is a show about athletic competition." In January of 2005, CNN announced the cancelation of Crossfire with CNN’s then-incoming president, Jonathan Klein stating, "I think he [Stewart] made a good point about the noise level of these types of shows, which does nothing to illuminate the issues of the day."
Stewart also announced a fake crowdfunding campaign to buy CNN back in July of 2014 after Rupert Murdoch offered $80 billion to buy its parent company, Time Warner. Stewart claimed that for a donation of $5 million, CNN would air a "24-hour, two-week hunt for your lost car keys."
In March of 2009, The Daily Show lambasted CNBC for its shoddy reporting of the financial crisis of 2008. Stewart claimed the network dodged its journalistic duty by merely accepting information from corporations without bothering to investigate further into matters at hand. On March 12, Jim Cramer appeared on The Daily Show where Stewart told him, “I understand you want to make finance entertaining, but it's not a fucking game. And when I watch that, I get, I can't tell you how angry that makes me. Because what it says to me is: you all know. You all know what's going on. You know, you can draw a straight line from those shenanigans to the stuff that was being pulled at Bear, and AIG, and all this derivative market stuff that is this weird Wall Street side bet." That episode of The Daily Show garnered 2.3 million total viewers, and the next day The Daily Show website saw its highest day of traffic year-to-date.
Stewart has also been an advocate for veterans and 9/11 first responders. He’s credited with breaking a Senate deadlock over a bill that would offer healthcare for 9/11 first responders, which passed three days after he featured a group of responders on the show. He also criticized a White House proposal to remove veterans with private insurance plans from the Department of Veterans Affairs rolls. The White House dropped the plan the next day.
South African comedian, Trevor Noah, who has been a regular contributor to The Daily Show since December of 2014, will replace Stewart. He will begin his hosting duties on September 28. On Wednesday it was announced that Stewart's Daily Show set will be put on display at the Newseum in Washington, D.C.
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The Last Daily show for Comte was in 2009.
He is a camoflouged, ultra-liberal, poisonally biased member of the MSM.
And his humor is easy to tire of in about 3 episodes.
Good Riddance.
Fuck John, Fuck Obama, Fuck hipsters, fuck Comedy Central, Fuck TV....eat obamas left over crap John
Lots of whiny little bitches around here.
Stewart should run for president.
That would make three incompetent clowns in a row.
good riddance. Shill
Once upon a time, during the 16 year history of Jon Stewart's Daily Show, I used to be able to enjoy that more, and was a fairly regular viewer. However, gradually, I found that I could no longer stand watching, in similar ways that I gradually had previously found that I could no longer stand watching the mainstream "news," which also, a long, long time ago, I was able to enjoy ...
THE MORE ONE KNOWS, THE WORSE IT GETS!
Eventually, the Daily Show no longer entertained me, as much as it annoyed me. But nevertheless, I remember watching when this accurate assessment was asserted:
Comparing the financial world to professional wrestling:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayfabe
In professional wrestling, kayfabe is the portrayal of staged events within the industry as "real" or "true," specifically the portrayal of competition, rivalries, and relationships between participants as being genuine and not of a staged or pre-determined nature. Kayfabe has also evolved to become a code word of sorts for maintaining this "reality" within the realm of the general public. Kayfabe was long held as a closely guarded secret within the professional wrestling industry; however, with the advent of the Internet, it has evolved into an open secret in the industry that is generally only adhered to during shows. ...
http://www.edge.org/response-detail/11783
Kayfabe
By Eric R. Weinstein
The sophisticated "scientific concept" with the greatest potential to enhance human understanding may be argued to come not from the halls of academe, but rather from the unlikely research environment of professional wrestling.
Evolutionary biologists Richard Alexander and Robert Trivers have recently emphasized that it is deception rather than information that often plays the decisive role in systems of selective pressures. Yet most of our thinking continues to treat deception as something of a perturbation on the exchange of pure information, leaving us unprepared to contemplate a world in which fakery may reliably crowd out the genuine. In particular, humanity's future selective pressures appear likely to remain tied to economic theory which currently uses as its central construct a market model based on assumptions of perfect information.
If we are to take selection more seriously within humans, we may fairly ask what rigorous system would be capable of tying together an altered reality of layered falsehoods in which absolutely nothing can be assumed to be as it appears. Such a system, in continuous development for more than a century, is known to exist and now supports an intricate multi-billion dollar business empire of pure hokum. It is known to wrestling's insiders as "Kayfabe".
Because professional wrestling is a simulated sport, all competitors who face each other in the ring are actually close collaborators who must form a closed system (called "a promotion") sealed against outsiders. With external competitors generally excluded, antagonists are chosen from within the promotion and their ritualized battles are largely negotiated, choreographed, and rehearsed at a significantly decreased risk of injury or death. With outcomes predetermined under Kayfabe, betrayal in wrestling comes not from engaging in unsportsmanlike conduct, but by the surprise appearance of actual sporting behavior. Such unwelcome sportsmanship which "breaks Kayfabe" is called "shooting" to distinguish it from the expected scripted deception called "working".
Were Kayfabe to become part of our toolkit for the twenty-first century, we would undoubtedly have an easier time understanding a world in which investigative journalism seems to have vanished and bitter corporate rivals cooperate on everything from joint ventures to lobbying efforts. Perhaps confusing battles between "freshwater" Chicago macro economists and Ivy league "Saltwater" theorists could be best understood as happening within a single "orthodox promotion" given that both groups suffered no injury from failing (equally) to predict the recent financial crisis. ...
What makes Kayfabe remarkable is that it gives us potentially the most complete example of the general process by which a wide class of important endeavors transition from failed reality to successful fakery. ...
Kayfabrication (the process of transition from reality towards Kayfabe) arises out of attempts to deliver a dependably engaging product for a mass audience while removing the unpredictable upheavals that imperil participants. As such Kayfabrication is a dependable feature of many of our most important systems which share the above two characteristics such as war, finance, love, politics and science.
Importantly, Kayfabe also seems to have discovered the limits of how much disbelief the human mind is capable of successfully suspending before fantasy and reality become fully conflated. Wrestling's system of lies has recently become so intricate that wrestlers have occasionally found themselves engaging in real life adultery following exactly behind the introduction of a fictitious adulterous plot twist in a Kayfabe back-story. Eventually, even Kayfabe itself became a victim of its own success as it grew to a level of deceit that could not be maintained when the wrestling world collided with outside regulators exercising oversight over major sporting events.
At the point Kayfabe was forced to own up to the fact that professional wrestling contained no sport whatsoever, it did more than avoid being regulated and taxed into oblivion. Wrestling discovered the unthinkable: its audience did not seem to require even a thin veneer of realism. Professional wrestling had come full circle to its honest origins by at last moving the responsibility for deception off of the shoulders of the performers and into the willing minds of the audience. ...
POLITICAL ECONOMY BECAME BASED ON KAYFABULATION.
THE LIES ARE DIFFERENT AT EVERY LEVEL!
THERE IS NO LEVEL WHERE TRUTH EXISTS.
Indeed,
"It is deception rather than information that often plays the decisive role in systems of selective pressures."
Or, as Alexander Vladimirov put it:
"All human history can be portrayed as the history of deception."
Social pyramid systems are almost totally dominated by the biggest bullies' bullshit world views, as integrated systems of legalized lies backed by legalized violence: ENFORCED FRAUDS. Those are built into our dominant natural languages, as well as into the philosophy of science that most people continue to take for granted. Ironically, that results in almost everything manifesting inside of a Wonderland Matrix Bizarro World, which is as absurdly backwards as it can possibly be.
Jon Stewart superficially revealed that in ways that I used to find amusing. However, gradually, I found his presentations to be TOO superficial, since he continued to take TOO much of the biggest bullies' bullshit for granted.
Lee Bo Witz.....piece of garbage
Jon Stewart's most in-famous statement on on the Daily Show...
9/11 Was an "Outside" Job!
You were and will always be a sellout after that one!!!
I suppose if you want to consider "outsiders" as "the infiltrators who own our governmental process and have no loyalty to the people of america..."
otherwise, GTFO. 93 never made its target, which was taken down anyway, laying the farce in plain view for anyone with a modicum of inquisitiveness in their mind.
And secreat meetings with the Mack daddy I hear . Bet Reggie didn't. Like that
"Despite the fact Stewart has always claimed The Daily Show is just a fake news show, the influence he’s had on politics and the media cannot be denied."
Neither can the ignorance and stupidity of the fawning gobblers in his audience, nor that of the American electorate, be denied...
Stewart was funny, he's a comedian. I didn't agree with a lot of his politics. BUT, his last "rant" was dead on. Watch out for bullshit and call people on it. Stewart, RIP!
He reminds me of someone who says something offensive to you and then says, "I'm only joking." Apparently they think they have found a loophole to say whatever they want. Half the time Liebowitz presents himself as a real journalist, but always can fall back and say, "This is only a fake news show!" "I come on after talking muppets that make prank phone calls."
If anyone thinks it anti-semitic to get hung up on his real last name, just remember, he goes to the trouble to hide it, not me.
Jon Stewart is brilliant. Period.
So was Hitler, and he had far more effect. Whether you like it or not.
So is Sirius on a good night, and it's dead.
Yes nobody said he wasnt good at it
Stewart brilliant ......., well yeah........ but so was Goebbels just the delivery system was different still propaganda mouthpieces for the Genocidal machine
Interesting how you compare a jew to a patriotic German. You have some much needed research of true history. Hitler was never a "genocidal machine". He fought the jewish central bankers, the jewish communists, the filthy jewish "entertainment" industry (the same shit that has subverted this country) and there was never a holocaust, rather an outbreak of typhus due to the "allies" bombing the shit out of Germany. The Germans had to clean the jews' clothes because they refused to be clean.
Hell, General Patton realized that at the end of the war. http://www.dailystormer.com/general-pattons-warning-about-the-jews-and-t...
Gas Chamber expert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oO1HWdtH4nw
I wonder why "john stewart" changed his name from Liebowitz ??????? The namechangers are also the moneychangers.
Patriotic?? Sorry not buying that line of BS...... about any of them....... and sorry Holocaust denial, not buying that either neither am I believing that it ever stopped since it started a couple centuries ago though they took it up a notch early last century.
Hitlers Brood, Stalins Gang, Churchill's Lot, Mussolini's Mafia The Bush Gang, Hirohitos Yakuza, Mao ........in my book they are all homocidal Psychopaths all hopelessly intertwined and connected all owing their start to the same Genocidal financial complex that gives us Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan AIG and all the rest of the Asshole.org of Wall street, hell if you take it back a bit further you can add the genocide of the north american indians, Actual Indians, Chinese and a whole host of African and South American cultures to the list - with the same overlords pulling the strings ........
I would like to give a shout out to Uncle Ho and General Giap for kicking the psycho-Bankers out and taking the country back though the costs were substantial they never gave up..... just wish we had the balls to do the same here..... we shall see how it plays out in the next short while .....
So I take it you also believe everything the government tells you about 911? You also believe that 'fire' caused a 40 story sky scraper to collapse in it's own footprint at freefall speed? Maybe you should take some elementary chemistry and physics courses if you're interested in truth.
Did Stewart uncover the Kagan/Nudleman coup in Ukraine for the horror that it was? Did he explain to the people that the Fed Bank now owns the Treasury and mortgage markets and how horrific that is?
Didn't go far enough, stopped short of saying, even humorously that the FED has been run by Jewish Zionists for 40 years, and counting.
He also didn't mention that Jewish Zionists are in all the most powerful financial nexi on the planet, including Lew at Treasury (after Geithner, both jews) J Yell (after Bernanke, both Jews) Gensler at CFTC (now another one), and on and on and on.
If he had any real objectivity he might raise the question as to how in hell the Zionist Jews have managed this monopoly over the entire global financial system, without doing it with the most egregious corruption hidden from a clueless public.
THEN, he might have been Brilliant.
muh six meeeelion
what? no more leftist propaganda?
Fuck that cocksucker and the retards that get their 'news' spoon fed libtard propaganda from the jewmedia and their make believe Anglo front men.
Barf....
Who gives a shit, yes i have cable. I'm in a trial period where i dont watch it.
Jon Leibowitz another socialist hebe leading the goyim to the slaughter.
And Ayn Rand? Alisa Rosenbaum, that much worshipped - around these parts - bitter Jewish hack writer and all round fabulist.
I prefer Sheky Green, Phyllis Diller and Jon Stewart.
Ayn Rand: America's biggest Hoax/Huckster
She was far from perfect, but made many great and necessary points about personal responsibility and the meritorious awards of accomplishment.
I'd love, and hate, to meet the Jew who whipped your ass so bad on the playground to incite such contemptable nazism.
There was a time when the comments section of ZH held inciteful additions to the news story. Now it is a cesspool of ZOG morons who see the Mossad at every corner and in every shadow.
U seem to be totally oblivious to the monopoly the Zionist jews have managed to acquire on nearly every significant financial nexus in the world, to include:
40 years and counting as Chairmen of the FED: Greenspan, Bernanke and now J Yell during the most heinous transfer of wealth to primarily zionist Jews in the history of the United States and Great Britain.
If those names had been Corleone, Rocco and Deluca, the outcry from the world would be deafening that the mafia has confiscated our money.
And then you have the U.S Treasury simultaneously with Geithner, and now Jack Lew. Both Zionist Jews
Then you have Shapiro, Orszag, as helpmates in transferring a trillion dollars to them, then Gensler and now Massad in the role as chairman of the CFTC, Both Zionist Jews.
If there were these many muslims, catholics, blacks, japanese, chinese, sicilians, germans, or spaniards in the same positions for as long as this AND COUNTING! the MSM would be accusing the government of being sabotaged in its entirety.
Religion? Tell us how the Talmud trumped the Torah. From the Talmud we goyim are pigs and cattle. In the Torah God says "Let us make man in Our image and likeness."
How does that square?
....AGREED!!!
Senseless unreasoned unsubstantiated attacks on any group based on religious beliefs, race creed or color is completely moronic and totally unnecessary ........ when there is utterly so much evidence to support charges of TREASON, CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY; GENOCIDE;NARCOTICS/GUN RUNNING; NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION TO CRIMINAL STATES; FINANCIAL FRAUD; and a whole host of other charges that should be prosecuted against the exceptional s where ever they may be.
..and you too.
U seem to be totally oblivious to the monopoly the Zionist jews have managed to acquire on nearly every significant financial nexus in the world, to include:
40 years and counting as Chairmen of the FED: Greenspan, Bernanke and now J Yell during the most heinous transfer of wealth to primarily zionist Jews in the history of the United States and Great Britain.
If those names had been Corleone, Rocco and Deluca, the outcry from the world would be deafening that the mafia has confiscated our money.
And then you have the U.S Treasury simultaneously with Geithner, and now Jack Lew. Both Zionist Jews
Then you have Shapiro, Orszag, as helpmates in transferring a trillion dollars to them, then Gensler and now Massad in the role as chairman of the CFTC, Both Zionist Jews.
If there were these many muslims, catholics, blacks, japanese, chinese, sicilians, germans, or spaniards in the same positions for as long as this AND COUNTING! the MSM would be accusing the government of being sabotaged in its entirety.
Don't foget his brother Larry who ran the NYSE.
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Indeed BoP.
Love how the Shylock trolls are always right there at the ready, to down-arrow anyone speaking truth to their F'ng clever bullshit.