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(2,178 posts) Tue Feb 20, 2024, 02:04 PM Feb 20

Jon Stewart Reacts to 'Daily Show' Backlash: "I Have Sinned Against You" [View all]

“The response to the first show last Monday was universally glowing — OK, maybe not universal,” Stewart said (video below) while showing screenshots of critical tweets. “But [the backlash was] on Twitter! Everything on Twitter gets a backlash. I’ve seen Twitter tell Labradoodles to go fuck themselves. I just think it’s better to deal head on with what’s an apparent issue to people. I mean … we’re just talking here! It was just one fucking show! It was 20 minutes! I did 20 minutes in one fucking show! But I guess as the famous saying goes: ‘Democracy dies in discussion.’ But look: I have sinned against you, I’m sorry. It was never my intention to say out loud what I saw with my eyes and then brain.”

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/jon-stewart-reacts-daily-show-backlash-1235830171/

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Jon Stewart Reacts to 'Daily Show' Backlash: "I Have Sinned Against You" [View all] TheProle Feb 20 OP

The commercials for this week's show are still plugging the "both guys are old" routine. TwilightZone Feb 20 #1

They are both old; it's factually true Cuthbert Allgood Feb 20 #3

Jon Stewart pretty much diagnosed mucifer Feb 20 #4

Not that long ago, people wanted JON STEWART to run for President FakeNoose Feb 20 #11

Well, he's not a Dr so I'm sure he did no such thing. Cuthbert Allgood Feb 20 #22

Yeh, that's the most important thing. Not the trying to defeat the guy trying to kill democracy thing NoRethugFriends Feb 20 #30

He made it very clear Trump was horrible in that segment. Cuthbert Allgood Feb 20 #36

And did you enjoy his non-apology also? NoRethugFriends Feb 20 #38

Yes I did. Cuthbert Allgood Feb 20 #40

the only take away I saw was WhiteTara Feb 20 #42

That's on you, then. Cuthbert Allgood Feb 20 #43

I didn't see the show. I was commenting WhiteTara Feb 20 #48

Geez, no need to apologize to someone who was rude to you. And that was the takeaway and the show itself. NoRethugFriends Feb 20 #52

thanks for standing up for me. WhiteTara Feb 20 #61

Very smug individual, at best NoRethugFriends Feb 20 #63

I don't have any of them for friends either WhiteTara Feb 20 #70

Exactly.. I'm not going to say anything else bc I'm Pissed at Cha Feb 20 #67

So you enjoyed angrychair Feb 20 #80

Who do you think watches Jon Stewart? All Mixed Up Feb 21 #94

+1 betsuni Feb 21 #107

Voter suppression has many forms. Just ask Ninga Feb 20 #41

Let's not pretend that's all there was to it. TwilightZone Feb 20 #6

Yes and we all know PatSeg Feb 20 #9

Perhaps he's trying to make some change beyond this election. Cuthbert Allgood Feb 20 #19

Seems like rather poor timing PatSeg Feb 20 #29

The "save it for another time" is and old, tired tactic. Cuthbert Allgood Feb 20 #39

Well PatSeg Feb 20 #49

+1 betsuni Feb 20 #71

Fact is... sheshe2 Feb 21 #91

Lots of voters don't like this matchup. Cuthbert Allgood Feb 20 #20

And it's the denial of it Sympthsical Feb 20 #25

I think you've diagnosed an important part of the problem fishwax Feb 20 #51

Agree. People are trying to sell excitement Sympthsical Feb 20 #56

Name how Biden has failed angrychair Feb 20 #85

What evidence is there of "the danger of it"? betsuni Feb 21 #110

I'm speaking politically only Sympthsical Feb 21 #118

Correction: lots of "people" don't like this matchup. W_HAMILTON Feb 20 #28

So you don't want people to vote? I don't get your point Cuthbert Allgood Feb 20 #35

My point is that the ones that are complaining are loud in voice but few in number... W_HAMILTON Feb 21 #99

I've watched it twice now angrychair Feb 20 #82

Why would anyone think "it's just matchups like this moving forward"? betsuni Feb 21 #105

"WTF ARE WE DOING?" is actually a fair sentiment progressoid Feb 20 #31

Electing angrychair Feb 20 #83

Seriously! Prairie Gates Feb 20 #14

Yes. For real. They are both old. Cuthbert Allgood Feb 20 #21

No, I meant "Seriously!" like "I agree!" Prairie Gates Feb 20 #23

Sorry. Cuthbert Allgood Feb 20 #26

Yeah, WE KNOW but ROB REINER knows How to Talk about that & fucking Stewart Does NOT. Cha Feb 20 #65

That's all that needs to be said! betsuni Feb 20 #68

Thank You! Cha Feb 20 #69

Boom. sheshe2 Feb 21 #93

Mahalo, she! Cha Feb 21 #98

But re: Trump, he should have said, 'old AND CRAZY!' DemocraticPatriot Feb 21 #100

They are both old, but one of them is certifiably insane. Initech Feb 20 #32

last night's show was pretty funny Fiendish Thingy Feb 20 #2

Agree with you Traildogbob Feb 20 #7

I'm not ready to totally abandon Jon Stewart PatSeg Feb 20 #8

BUT THEY ARE EQUALLY BAD! budkin Feb 20 #5

That was a pretty insulting "apology." SunSeeker Feb 20 #10

Everything you said, and if I might add... sheshe2 Feb 21 #96

Stewart is just another white male who thinks he is some type of savant truth teller Doc Sportello Feb 20 #12

That he might be wrong and actually listen to what people are saying never occurs to him. betsuni Feb 20 #44

Gen X has no time for ya bullshit anymore! Prairie Gates Feb 20 #13

Enjoy trump angrychair Feb 20 #84

What is that supposed to mean? Who the fuck enjoys that Orange bag of wet dog shit? SoFlaBro Feb 21 #106

Both sides and it's just an election seemed the sum of Steward's commentary Kennah Feb 20 #15

I'm with Stewart Bludogdem Feb 20 #16

Has that ever happened I mean in your lifetime? Walleye Feb 20 #37

Contested conventions Bludogdem Feb 20 #54

OK but the 1964R and 1968D conventions produced candidates that were losers Walleye Feb 20 #73

Is there some reason you left VP Harris off the list? This country is in crisis, niyad Feb 20 #77

Really? PatSeg Feb 20 #50

Lot of talent Bludogdem Feb 20 #55

"indecent" voters?? pray explain. niyad Feb 20 #78

I don't see VP Harris' name. GP6971 Feb 21 #89

P.S. PatSeg Feb 22 #122

He's in our court...and frankly he hasn't missed a lick over the time he was absent... NowsTheTime Feb 20 #17

Jon didn't sin against me. I'm an adult and I can handle truth and the opinions of other people Autumn Feb 20 #18

Agreed. lindysalsagal Feb 20 #47

Seconded. Caliman73 Feb 20 #64

Agreed. Sadly, a lot of people seem to want their entire political media to be nothing more than a circle jerk Midwestern Democrat Feb 20 #75

That is an absurdly wrong angrychair Feb 20 #87

What an idiotic nonpology GenThePerservering Feb 20 #24

Not enough to get me watching again. W_HAMILTON Feb 20 #27

I thought he did a good job last week and a great job this week -- love having him back fishwax Feb 20 #33

He, very much, angrychair Feb 20 #88

I didn't see it that way at all fishwax Feb 21 #90

A person angrychair Feb 21 #92

As I said before, I don't buy that characterization of Jon Stewart fishwax Feb 21 #95

The point I'm making angrychair Feb 21 #101

+1 betsuni Feb 21 #104

Stewart wasn't arguing that Biden is senile or incapable fishwax Feb 21 #109

No. betsuni Feb 21 #111

a fun artifact, I suppose, but not really relevant to anything that I said fishwax Feb 21 #112

No, same. betsuni Feb 21 #113

Again angrychair Feb 21 #117

It's interesting that at 61, Jon Stewart is a boomer. N/T lapucelle Feb 20 #34

It's interesting that at 61, Jon Stewart is a boomer. LenaBaby61 Feb 20 #45

I think a lot of his audience must have aged, too. betsuni Feb 20 #53

Just like Chris Rock... appmanga Feb 20 #46

Stewert is much better as a spokesperson (say for 9-11 first responders) than as a comedian. Earth-shine Feb 20 #57

Lest we forget pfitz59 Feb 20 #58

Jon Stewart is a comedian and a satirist. ificandream Feb 20 #59

I'm confused. I thought this was Democratic Underground SocialDemocrat61 Feb 20 #60

I disagree with Stewart being "smarter than this" (in the video). He's not. betsuni Feb 20 #66

There's no conspiracy cover up denying Biden's age. Biden's not doing that, nobody's doing that. betsuni Feb 20 #62

This makes me smile LetMyPeopleVote Feb 20 #72

Jon is not serious, not intellectual, stubbornly both sides stupid. betsuni Feb 21 #108

Mary Trump was amused to see her comments used on this show LetMyPeopleVote Feb 21 #121

"It was inevitable that pundits would respond to Trump's nomination by pleading to Jon Stewart betsuni Feb 20 #74

Sorry Jon. Your old age jokes are old too. Lame even. LakeArenal Feb 20 #76

Wow, an amazing non-apology apology. Beginning to see KO's view. niyad Feb 20 #79

Jon is a comedian. NT Groundhawg Feb 20 #81

He's funny underpants Feb 20 #86

I guess I am confused by what you think his point is. All Mixed Up Feb 21 #97

Thank you. betsuni Feb 21 #103

Just more claudette Feb 21 #102

Some times I really like Stewart and sometimes leftyladyfrommo Feb 21 #114

You mean he's not acting like a paid asset of the DNC. SYFROYH Feb 21 #115

In this election, one is either for democracy or against it. Hermit-The-Prog Feb 21 #116

I'm not sure democracy means what you think it means SYFROYH Feb 21 #119

Glad you are here to control us ignoramuses. Hermit-The-Prog Feb 21 #120