now on MSNBC: IS JON STEWART A DANGER?

I'm glad they went with Couric. She's not to be taken seriously, but at least she doesn't have a rep for being funny. Stewart as a news anchor would be like The Nightly News With Harris K. Telemacher.

Speaking to a college audience in Boston, Mass. Friday, "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart used his stand-up routine to respond to Sarah Palin's comments about "pro-America" parts of the country, shedding the profanity restrictions that govern his Comedy Central show.

"She said that small towns, that's the part of the country she really likes going to because that's the pro-America part of the country. You know, I just want to say to her, just very quickly: (expletive) you," Stewart said to raucous applause.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2008/10/jon_stewart_to_sarah_palin_exp.asp

CNN's Rick Sanchez made controversial comments on a Sirius radio show Thursday, calling Jon Stewart a "bigot" and saying that CNN and the other networks are all run by Jewish people.

Discussing Stewart with radio host Pete Dominick, Sanchez said that the "Daily Show" host has a limited worldview, and called him a "bigot."

The conversation began with Sanchez decrying "elite, Northeast establishment liberals" who "deep down, when they look at a guy like me, they see a guy automatically who belongs in the second tier, and not the top tier.

"I think to some extent Jon Stewart and [Stephen] Colbert are the same way. I think Jon Stewart's a bigot," he said. "I think he looks at the world through, his mom, who was a school teacher, and his dad, who was a physicist or something like that. Great, I'm so happy that he grew up in a suburban middle class New Jersey home with everything you could ever imagine."

When asked who Stewart is bigoted against, Sanchez said "everybody else who's not like him."

Sanchez would eventually retract the "bigot" claim, settling instead on calling Stewart "prejudicial" and "uninformed."

But he made a larger point when Dominick suggested that Stewart could understand being part of an oppressed minority group because he is Jewish.

Sanchez scoffed at the claim, snickering and suggesting that CNN and the rest of the media is run by Jewish people (from the "Stand Up with Pete Dominick" blog):

Very powerless people... [snickers] He's such a minority, I mean, you know [sarcastically]... Please, what are you kidding? ... I'm telling you that everybody who runs CNN is a lot like Stewart, and a lot of people who run all the other networks are a lot like Stewart, and to imply that somehow they -- the people in this country who are Jewish -- are an oppressed minority? Yeah. [sarcastically]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOkqrmSVEDE&feature=player_embedded

Look, Jon Stewart isn't perfect, but I honestly don't think he looks down on "everybody else who's not like him." Does Sanchez even watch the show? Because I can guarantee you Stewart watches CNN, and has plenty of opportunities to pull clips of Sanchez being a moron on a daily basis.

I think Sanchez is bitter that the Daily Show keeps showing that clip of him being tazed.

It's still funny everytime I see it.

i think the jews-run-everything line is going to cost him a lot more than anything he said about jon stewart.

The thing I don't understand about people in the entertainment/news industries who say those types of things is... well, aren't you basically mouthing off to your boss if that's actually true, and therefore kind of a stupid career move?

you may be surprised to find out that rick sanchez is not known for his logic

haha

not surprised per se, more like "wtf why is he in his job instead of me"

aw rick

:/

that he goes from accusations of bigotry to saying something totally bigoted so quickly is kinda breathtaking.

what a fucking moron

At risk of stating obvious:

The insidious thing about that "Jews run the media" line is that it insinuates some kind of uniform Jewish agenda being pushed via the media an agenda that is, presumably, both distinctly Jewish and alien to non-Jews, in addition to being uniform). There's no question that there are a disproportionate number of Jews in media. There were a disproportionate number of Lebanese business owners in New Brunswick but I never used that to imply that "the" Lebanese somehow "ran" New Brunswick and/or to insinuate that they were pushing some kind of alien agenda on us (other than shitty pizza).

Oh fuck wait, how did I miss this part:

Pete asked, “They can’t relate to that? A Jewish person doesn’t have a constant fear in the back of their head that we could (inaudible) the Holocaust?”

“I think his father could,” Sanchez replied, referring to Stewart.

“I think every Jewish person feels that way,” Pete said.

“I hope so,” Sanchez responded.

there's a disproportionate number of Jews in the media centers of NY and Hollywood (insofar as anything above 3% is going to be disproportionate). But I dunno, "the media" is such a broad term, and everything is so decentralized now, acting like JEWS CONTROL THE MEDIA as if a) Jews are some monolithic force and b) the media is similarly a monolithic entity subject to centralized control is just indicative of broader anti-semitism

dude can fuck right off

btw I have reported this dude to the Elders of Zion, he should be out of a job within 48 hours.

Shalom!

also fyi Christian babies are delicious

in addition to being uniform

What's the old joke about what you end up with when you put two Jews in the same room, three opinions? Something like that. My gf's Jewish and I have not noticed any monolithic opinion on any subjects amongst her family but they're probably just putting up a front for the goy.

nah David Zucker and George Soros agree about everything dontchaknow

gonna miss you, Rick.

yeah the holocaust eye-rolling stuff is pretty creepy, wth is that about

but on a more meta-level, i really don't like this idea that liberalism has to come out of a sense of personal grievance that then has to be rooted in recent oppression. seems very narcissistically competitive to me! like, "my (people's) story is so much worse than that guy's, i'm way more hard core!"

just seems to read the relationship between bad enforced social hierarchies and liberalism wrong -- rather than extending out from local experiences to a larger effort at remedies, it "owns" shitty experiences as a kind of personal power, leveraging them in the way right-wingers accuse "us" of doing all the time. my grievance beats your grievance, so fuck you.

i don't have any opinion on sanchez' career as a journalist tho, no idea.

I always thought Sanchez was a bit of a dolt but I didn't think he was this dumb and I though he was generally well-meaning.

I will be curious to see what Stewart does w/this flap.

probably confess that he is bigoted against idiotic CNN commentators

Colbert made cruel fun of him the other night, too. And of course everyone loves the clip where he lets himself get tazed.

If the dude is too stupid to take being called stupid without resorting to lashing out in a racially questionable way, then... well, he really is stupid. I was willing to cut him a break before this. Like, maybe he's just not good at his job, but he's not a total doorknob. But no.

"To clarify, it's not that I look down (insert height joke) on everybody who's not like me, just idiots"

you know what they say: can't spell jon stewart without "jew" or "on star" or an extra "t"

more like Son(ned) Jew-art

Wow, he got fired:

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/breaking-rick-sanchez-fired-from-cnn/

haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

You know that thing I said upthread about taunting your bosses?

haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Shakey works fast!

The baby must have been *really* tasty.

“Rick Sanchez is no longer with the company. We thank Rick for his years of service and we wish him well.“

Oh please, just say you canned his lame ass.

"we wish him well in future endeavors" is my favorite "we fired him" phrase at my company

"We think you're ready for a solo career."

Everybody else who’s not like him. Look at his show, I mean, what does he surround himself with?

Hey you guys, Sanchez is right. Who on that show is not a Jew?

sucks for him that he's not a rightwinger, cuz fox business network would be all over it.

rick rolled

would rather see an ifc sitcom about rick sanchez

Well, apparently one of Sanchez's biggest boosters was former CNN prez Jonathan Klein (he's the one that gave Sanchez an expanded role). Seeing that Klein was fired a week or so ago, I'm pretty sure the new (Jewish?) powers that be were chomping at the bit to dump Sanchez. He made it easy. Or perhaps he knew it was coming, so was looser with the tongue than usual.

Looking forward to this guys's first public statement. Will it be contrition or "thanks for throwing me under the bus, you assholes!"?

it was all a scam to get him a slot at Fox News

nah, fox is going to get too much mileage out of "liberal anchor at uber-liberal cnn revealed as anti-semite," which dovetails with the favored neocon line about american liberalism being pro-muslim and anti-israel. plus fox already has their token latino in geraldo.

Yeah, I don't see him landing at Fox either.

i'm pro-muslim and pro-israel (with the caveat that israel acts like that embarrassingly stubborn and nationalistic uncle sometimes).

plus fox already has their token latino in geraldo.

"Fox" news alert

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mazel tov.

We were under the impression that Jon Stewart was a comedian and television personality, not a dancer.

*to the tune of the killers song*

"is he stewart / or is he dancer?"

the rise and fall and rise and fall and rise and fall of rick sanchez.

so like, wha happen on the Daily Show last night?

Jon was sort of magnanimous toward Sanchez, but still poked fun at him anyway before moving on to how the media made a far bigger deal about this "rivalry" than necessary.

Some of the comments on the Miami Herald story are o_O

oogie wrote on 10/05/2010 01:07:16 PM:
The question here is, would the network have fired Stewart if he made that or a similar remark about Hispanics or Cubans. The answer is....hell no

Yeah, isn't that always the question. "If everyone else was as racist as I am, would they be similarly punished? I doubt it!" These are the issues that must be addressed first and foremost.

Yeah there are different standards of conduct expected and amount of off-color remarks allowed for actual journalists versus comedians/entertainers... why does this issue need to be addressed? I mean the reasons for this "double standard" seem pretty self-evident.

Unless the point is that if Stewart is a de facto journalist/pundit he should act like one and get serious? I think cable news journalists need to get more serious. Stewart's credibility is a symptom of the lack of credibility on the cable networks.

Satirists are not supposed to be required to do investigative journalism and hard hitting interviews. Why would you demand it from Stewart?

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2010/10/mea-culpa-rick-sanchez-apologizes-to-jon-stewart.html

Rick talks to you, the people:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2010/10/10/DI2010101001704.html?hpid=topnews

Damn, I wish I'd known about that. I would have asked him about the reports that he approached that radio host's show asking to be booked, the host's comments that Sanchez seemed to be spoiling for a fight, and how that squares with his whining that he'd been working every day for months and was so tired boo hoo hoo.

Urbana, Ill.: In terms of "discrimination" does Mr. Sanchez believe that he was selected by CNN because he is good looking or does he believe that he would have been chosen if he were not handsome? Is this discrimination?

Rick Sanchez: Thank you for the question. I don't see myself in any way as other than suburban dad with four kids, a beautiful wife and a devotion to them and my god. I'm humbled by your suggestion but I do not believe that my looks have had an effect on my marketability.

pundits can get away with saying just about anything about hispanics or arabs these days (see Glenn Beck or Lou Dobbs, both who started on cnn)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNiqpBNE9ik

no idea what thread is right for this but this is a thing that happened

http://www.stereogum.com/1889571/colbert-bumps-caselangveirs-for-more-donald-trump-jokes/news/

Colbert, who left his successful show at the peak of his powers for a lamer, tamer, more conventional talk show, cedes the chair to Jon Stewart, who left his successful show at the peak of his powers, to remind us of the venting role he (Stewart) used to play, and how effective satire and righteous indignation in both of their hands could be. Someone really should have sat down with both of them before they shuffled the desks and explained that it would have been totally cool to just take a long vacation rather than abruptly quit.

Two and a half years is a really abrupt timeframe for grown men in their 50s to leave a job and do something else they're really interested in, if Josh in Chicago wants them to keep doing their old jobs.

Whatevs. Colbert and Stewart are clearly at least still a little interested in their old jobs, too, if recent days have been any indication.

stewart's bit was rough. "lumpy"? he needs his writers.

http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/5/5c/Cap056.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20121004171938

Was Stewart always that thin?

he's been following a vegetarian (maybe vegan?) diet in the past few years

Given the muddle of his DC rally, i am wary of this:

Written and directed by Jon Stewart, Irresistible is a comedy about what happens when a small Wisconsin town becomes the main attraction of our political circus. After the Democrat’s top strategist Gary (Steve Carell) sees a video of a retired Marine Colonel (Chris Cooper) standing up for the rights of his town’s undocumented workers, Gary believes he has found the key to winning back the Heartland. However, when the Republicans counter him by sending in his brilliant nemesis Faith (Rose Byrne), what started out as a local race quickly becomes an out-of-control and hilarious fight for the soul of America.

"a laff riot"

-- Albert Einstein --

I would rather open 5 Hellraiser puzzle boxes in a row than watch that.

i cannot imagine anything less fun to watch in 2020 than a movie about "an out-of-control and hilarious fight for the soul of america."

Is Cooper just reprising his American Beauty character?

i see a bunch of sergeants and colonels in his credits

lotta craziness on both sides right?

tbh i think a fair amount of Bush-era Daily Show holds up both as media commentary and goofy comedy, and I think it’s unfair to summarize it all as “Stewart mugs at Fox News juxtapositions,” but a good team of writers makes a huge difference. Has Stewart written anything really noteworthy solo?

I'd rather watch the Kevin Costner undecided voter movie over this shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qQ6UcU_JiE

Will Ferrell in a zany film about a US Congressional Representative?! Oh goodness me, what a delightful funfest that shall be!

8 years ago

When I get around to viewing it, I'll come here first to report back my impressions.

so jon stewart is currently doing a zoom interview on fox news with the chyron “JON STEWART BACKS ROGAN UP AGAINST MEDIA”

Can't believe The Rally To Restore Sanity guy has turned out to be a complete knucklehead.

2000-2006 Daily Show writers clearly deserve a retroactive raise.

I’m not really a Jon Stewart super fan, but after googling this and only finding just scraps of what he said and with little context, seems like this is maybe a little silly.

Basically seems like this is exactly how Fox News would spin whatever sliver of thing he said.

he was giving a zoom interview to fox news. i have no idea what he actually said, i was in a bar with the sound down, which is a good approximation of how most people consume fox news ime