Jon Stewart the Tool is Also Jon Stewart the Animal Abuser
I wrote previously here on the ZRC blog about Jon Stewart’s pathetic attempts to put down the Madison protests as being too ‘chanty’, and comparisons to Egypt as being outrageous, even when actual Egyptian labor leaders make them.
I wasn’t the only one to think his tiresome ‘I’m the wise man in the middle’ routine went too far:
I’m sure you were just dying for some old fashioned he said/she said punditry on Wisconsin so look no further than Jon Stewart, who is now in the process of becoming an iconic representative of the genre. It started off well, calling out the Governor on his union breaking goals. But then he turned on the Democratic Senators implying that they were being wimps instead of strategists playing for time and proceeded to denigrate the protesters as fools, taking them and the media to task for comparing these silly hippie protests with the Egyptian uprising. (Nobody’s been killed fergawdsake!) He finally took Rick Santelli to task for comparing it to 9/11 after which he went after MSNBC and Fox for being hypocrites etc, etc, etc., ending up calling the Wisconsin protests the Bizarro Tea Party.
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I’m so glad we have Jon Stewart around to reduce all political activities of ordinary people into a clown show. It makes it much easier to maintain our ironic distance. Silly people making noises in public is really beneath all smart liberals like ourselves — the only respectable way for people to engage in politics is to let Jon Stewart explain it all to us in our special coded hipster humor, as he did in the next segment:
It gets worse, however, than I thought after watching his vomitous little hatchet job.
As it turns out, The Daily Show wanted to really, really rub our noses in their scorn for our protests here in Madison, and any foolish comparisons to Cairo (even those made by Egyptian labor leadership). So they went for an over-the-top stunt to ‘illustrate’ their point:
They brought in a camel. To Madison. In the bitter winter cold and slush and ice and snow.
The results were predictable, if awful:
“The Daily Show With Jon Stewart” has come under fire after a video taken by an onlooker was posted on YouTube this week, showing a camel – apparently brought in for a skit on the Comedy Central show – suffering alleged abuse from his handlers while shooting in the snow and sleet-filled streets of Madison, Wisconsin.
The video shows the camel being jabbed in the neck and marched around a small fence, before becoming stuck between the metal bars.
The frightened animal is then aggressively yanked forward until it slips and falls in the ice while the fence falls down. Despite the animal cowering down, handlers still try to forcefully pull up the camel.
At one point, “Daily Show” correspondent John Oliver walks in front of the camera and instructs the shooter to turn it off.
Yes, I know that’s from Fox. It’s easily verified though, since the whole thing is up on Youtube:
Jon Stewart isn’t just a despicable snob, bashing people out fighting for, yes, democracy in the face of, yes, tyranny. He’s also an animal abuser who thinks it’s appropriate to haul a big flat-footed creature out in the miserable and treacherous Madison winter to produce a snide put-down of actual populism, because he thinks it’s *rude* to raise our voices.
The ZRC is definitely boycotting The Daily Show as of *now*. Even John Oliver got in on the act, trying to cover up citizen journalism when it was inconveniently documenting his paid gig going awry. He’s a tremendous disappointment to me.
Oh, and one final point, Jon? Those firefighters who helped pull your butt out of a sling when you almost maimed an animal to ‘prove’ your point? They were carrying picket signs. Yes, that’s right; they were the same ‘chanty’ individuals you hold in so little esteem.
You’re welcome from Madison. Schmuck.
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