{"id":182989,"date":"2015-04-18T19:53:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-19T00:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/04\/18\/i-now-understand-why-jon-stewart-is-leaving-the-daily-show\/"},"modified":"2015-04-18T19:53:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-19T00:53:00","slug":"i-now-understand-why-jon-stewart-is-leaving-the-daily-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/04\/18\/i-now-understand-why-jon-stewart-is-leaving-the-daily-show\/","title":{"rendered":"I Now Understand Why Jon Stewart is Leaving The Daily Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After many years of commenting on cable TV wankitude, he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2015\/apr\/18\/jon-stewart-why-i-quit-the-daily-show\">can no longer handle watching Fox News anymore<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">My biggest objection to Fox News, I say, is not the scaremongering, it\u2019s the way it\u2019s reshaped the Republican party. It will misrepresent social and economic issues, and promote the more extreme elements of the party, politicians such as Sarah Palin and Mike Huckabee, in a way that is hugely detrimental to American politics. (For the record, Rupert Murdoch disagrees, and last year claimed that Fox News \u201cabsolutely saved\u201d the Republican party.) \u201cWatching these channels all day is incredibly depressing,\u201d says Stewart. \u201cI live in a constant state of depression. I think of us as turd miners. I put on my helmet, I go and mine turds, hopefully I don\u2019t get turd lung disease.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Now that he is leaving The Daily Show, is there any circumstance in which he would watch Fox News again? He takes a few seconds to ponder the question. \u201cUmm\u2026 All right, let\u2019s say that it\u2019s a nuclear winter, and I have been wandering, and there appears to be a flickering light through what appears to be a radioactive cloud and I think that light might be a food source that could help my family. I might glance at it for a moment until I realize, that\u2019s Fox News, and then I shut it off. That\u2019s the circumstance.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>OK, I get it now.<\/p>\n<p>If I had to watch Fox News for a living, I&#8217;d be \u2026\u2026\u2026 I&#8217;d be \u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Hell, I need a full fifth of Jack and a bong full of Maui Wowie to even consider it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After many years of commenting on cable TV wankitude, he can no longer handle watching Fox News anymore: \u2026\u2026\u2026My biggest objection to Fox News, I say, is not the scaremongering, it\u2019s the way it\u2019s reshaped the Republican party. It will misrepresent social and economic issues, and promote the more extreme elements of the party, politicians &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[975,1065,974,1064,1028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-entertainment","category-hack-journalism","category-media","category-people-i-do-not-want-to-piss-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182989"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}