{"id":183624,"date":"2013-01-11T18:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-11T23:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/01\/11\/he-is-a-fing-comedian\/"},"modified":"2013-01-11T18:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-11T23:59:00","slug":"he-is-a-fing-comedian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/01\/11\/he-is-a-fing-comedian\/","title":{"rendered":"He is a F%$#ing Comedian"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 324px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color:#000000;width:324px;\">\n<div style=\"padding:1px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:cms:item:comedycentral.com:422788\" width=\"320\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><i>Blah, blah, blah!<\/i><\/div>\n<p>So until the pundits are subjected to some scrutiny for their fact free gaffes, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/ten-miles-square\/2013\/01\/jon_stewart_faceplants_on_mint042342.php\">leave Jon Stewart alone<\/a>.   &lt;\/LeaveBritneyAlone&gt;<\/p>\n<p>You can see the video, and I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s great.  It shows off his not-infrequent forays into &#8220;a pox on both their houses&#8221; land, but there is a difference between saying, &#8220;Not up to his normal standards,&#8221; and:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I won\u2019t say that Stewart has the same obligation to be accurate the journalists have\u2014in fact, if he had brought up the coin only to make a lot of silly jokes about whose face would be on it, that would have been okay. (A missed opportunity, but nothing more.) But instead he grossly misled his audience.<\/p>\n<p>At its best the Daily Show is about satirizing the actual reality of American governance in an honest way. Stewart has built up a lot of credibility over the years. A great many people trust him implicitly, believing that while his main objective is to be funny, he also won\u2019t under any circumstances BS them. Yesterday, he betrayed that trust.<\/p>\n<p>Shame on you, Jon Stewart. You\u2019re better than this.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s one thing to say, &#8220;It&#8217;s not his best,&#8221; and it&#8217;s another to treat it as one of the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Cooper, please get a life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blah, blah, blah! So until the pundits are subjected to some scrutiny for their fact free gaffes, leave Jon Stewart alone. &lt;\/LeaveBritneyAlone&gt; You can see the video, and I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s great. It shows off his not-infrequent forays into &#8220;a pox on both their houses&#8221; land, but there is a difference between saying, &#8220;Not &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1028,1027,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people-i-do-not-want-to-piss-off","category-video","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183624"}],"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=183624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}