{"id":190943,"date":"2009-10-13T12:44:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T17:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/13\/remember-do-not-f-with-jon-stewart\/"},"modified":"2009-10-13T12:44:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-13T17:44:00","slug":"remember-do-not-f-with-jon-stewart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/13\/remember-do-not-f-with-jon-stewart\/","title":{"rendered":"Remember, Do Not F$#% With Jon Stewart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve said before, <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/note-to-self-do-not-f-with-jon-stewart.html\">do not with f$#% with Jon Stewart<\/a>, and when you go after a comedy program and &#8220;fact check&#8221;, as CNN did with a <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Saturday Night Live<\/span> sketch, you are messing with the bull, and they got the horns when Stewart fact checked CNN:<\/p>\n<p><embed style=\"display: block;\" src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/mgid:cms:item:comedycentral.com:251763\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"window\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" flashvars=\"autoPlay=false\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allownetworking=\"all\" bgcolor=\"#000000\" width=\"360\" height=\"301\"><\/embed><\/p>\n<p>Stewart made the obvious point, before you fact check a comedy show, how about <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">fact checking people who are on your news programs<\/span>, or even knowing how to check the numbers?<\/p>\n<p>A note to the so-called journalists on cable news:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;\" >Do not f$#% with comedians.  They are smarter than you are, they are better informed, they are better looking, and they are probably better in bed.<\/span><br \/><\/span><br \/>Unfortunately, I&#8217;ll have to leave it right there&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve said before, do not with f$#% with Jon Stewart, and when you go after a comedy program and &#8220;fact check&#8221;, as CNN did with a Saturday Night Live sketch, you are messing with the bull, and they got the horns when Stewart fact checked CNN: Stewart made the obvious point, before you fact &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1002,1048,1064,1027],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-writing","category-humor","category-media","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190943"}],"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=190943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}