April 23, 2024

Jon Stewart's view of the Trump trial: It's a test of the media's fairness and accuracy.


"If the media tries to make us feel like the most mundane bullshit is earth shattering, we won't believe you when it's really interesting. It's your classic boy who cried Wolf Blitzer."

59 comments:

wendybar said...

And we all know the media doesn't know what fairness and accuracy is. Anybody who thinks they are fair, is a dumbed down progressive used to being lied to and having conniption fits because they believe MISINFORMATION spewed at them 24/7.

Gusty Winds said...

Jon Stewart go caught over valuing his NYC property by millions, right after railing on Trump for "doing the same." Records were public and exposed on X. Jon Stewart isn't able to be fair and accurate, just like his evil Sith apprentice, Steven Colbert.

CNN and MSNBC have to fill in 24/7 with Trump bullshit so of course they are going to focus on the meaningless mundane. Bringing in the sketch artist to explain why Trump's eyes were closed is just stupid.

Stewart is not some moral abature for American politics. He just pretends to be one on TV. He's an asshole.

Dude1394 said...

Yuck,yuck, election interference by the democrat party and there media is hilarious. Just hilarious. Locking up your presidential opponent for something that the congress has a SLUSH FUND FOR is just hiliarious.

I do not have anything in common with democrats.

Robert Cook said...

Well, the profit-driven mass media have certainly disgraced themselves...as usual. It reminds me of the media circus depicted in the Billy Wilder movie ACE IN THE HOLE, starring Kirk Douglas as a cynical careerist newspaper man seeking to turn a tragedy into his ride to national success.

NorthOfTheOneOhOne said...

Considering that there are people nattering on and nattering on about Trump farting in the courtroom; Stewart may be doing a good broken clock impression.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv3Q729DqpE&t=267s

NorthOfTheOneOhOne said...

Better link to the video I posted above. This one starts at the beginning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv3Q729DqpE

Achilles said...

Jon Stewart is a dancing monkey. He is the most obvious and egregious shill out there right now.

Nobody gives a shit what Jon Stewart thinks anymore because not even college students listen to him. He was trotted out during an election year to spout the party line.

Maher even thinks he is a shill.

The biggest problem for Stewart is nobody thinks he is funny anymore.

Rusty said...

A test in which the media has consistanly failed over the last twenty years. And they're fine with that.

Trollinator1000 said...

Looks like the talking points have gone out; first Maher, now Stewart, with additional sympathetic/what-are-you-doing-you're-helping-Trump-you-dumbasses coverage bubbling up everywhere.

They operate in reaction to poll numbers, plain and simple. This is all (loosely) coordinated.

Back in the day Rush would have pointed this out and played montages/read articles to illustrate what is happening now.

Trollinator1000 said...

Looks like the talking points have gone out; first Maher, now Stewart, with additional sympathetic/what-are-you-doing-you're-helping-Trump-you-dumbasses coverage bubbling up everywhere.

They operate in reaction to poll numbers, plain and simple. This is all (loosely) coordinated.

Back in the day Rush would have pointed this out and played montages/read articles to illustrate what is happening now.

Achilles said...

Robert Cook said...

Well, the profit-driven mass media have certainly disgraced themselves...as usual.

Once again Cook shows he is just dumb and doesn't think about anything at a serious level.

NPR is the worst of the bunch. It is specifically state supported and non-profit.

All of the "for-profit" media are owned by billionaires that are losing money on these "investments." They are clearly not operated in a manner to produce profit and just push the party line driving away more than half their audience.

Fox News is the most profitable of the bunch and they fired the most popular show host in history halving their total viewership because he was questioning the party line.

There is no "for-profit" media in this country.



cf said...

hmm, so what are we NOT talking about?

beyond mention: the Leviathan Police State listening in to anybody the hell they want, gained dreadful access with the Patriot Act, now a vast flow of personal data is in the hands of folks proving they don't like half the nation.

1. A review of the Covid years, and the freedoms we lost, the authoritarian response by our ruling class, the terrible research that continues still, the misdirection by our bureaucrat class.

2. immigration who is here now, what are they doing, the government and "catholic relief services" know exactly what is going on with immigration, but us citizens getting watered down don't. worth some deep consistent coverage

3. war. what is it good for.

4. Climate change agenda has led us up a dry creek.





Mike (MJB Wolf) said...

"IF", Jon? Perhaps you have not been paying attention. Although "crying Wolf Blitzer" is a cute line, it's not enough to redeem your endorsement of TDS over the years and your failure to humiliate the ones who really need it.

Mike (MJB Wolf) said...

The biggest problem for Stewart is nobody thinks he is funny anymore.

Drop the last word and I'm in agreement with it.

Eva Marie said...

Poor lefties. If they were good little girls and boys and did what they were told and disparaged and laughed at Trump and his supporters, they would get this beautiful gift of a trial. Now they’ve opened their present and it’s lumps of coal all the way down.

Bushman of the Kohlrabi said...

Spoiler alert:

Our media will miserably fail that test as usual

Mary Beth said...

Almost 16 minutes of talking about Trump in the context of why we shouldn't be talking about Trump.

I'm currently reading Bad News by Batya Ungar-Sargon, which you can get through the Althouse Amazon portal. (I got my copy from the library. Sorry.) It's about how journalism became a job by and for the elites. They really are out of touch with the average working class person. It's like Oscar Madison got fired and they hired Felix Unger.

Iman said...

Clown nose status: ON

JK Brown said...

Nice they adopted the "TDS" acronym in the lower right corner.

Lem Vibe Bandit said...

The prosecution is asking for fines. As I understand it. I really can’t believe what I hear when it’s about Trump.

Skeptical Voter said...

Let's just say that the media is going to earn its "F"--and will treat it as a badge of honor. These bozos really want to be "part of the club". What they don't realize is that the "club" sneers at them, just as the club sneers at the rest of the country.

rehajm said...

Stewart is only concerned about the mundane presented as earth shattering. He’s more than okay with the kangaroo court. The headline attributing to him stuff he doesn’t say…

rehajm said...

He’ll be there when the fighting gets rough long about August…

PM said...

Agree w/Mr. Cook: very close to Ace in the Hole. Got through half of the post. Pretty funny take on the breathless media, esp as they investigate the deeper meaning of the artist's sketch of Trump. This is classic, high-level stupidity.

doctrev said...

"It's about how journalism became a job by and for the elites. They really are out of touch with the average working class person. It's like Oscar Madison got fired and they hired Felix Unger."

The left sees money going out to Ukraine and Israel as an anchor around the feet of their fortunes, and fair enough. But man, are you lucky you don't read outlets of Conservative Inc. More than ten of today's posts at Instapundit are about campus protests, which would only make sense if students were killed by the police. As it is, preoccupation with rich Jewish Ivy Leaguers- who mostly -despise- normal Americans of all stripes- is outright nauseating, no matter how you feel about Gaza.

Beaneater said...

Gusty Winds,

At the outset, let me say that as far as I can tell, this and all other current lawsuits against Trump are somewhere between highly questionable and ludicrous. Just so we know where we're standing.

But there is no equivalency between Stewart's case and Trump's. Stewart bought a property for a certain amount, paid taxes on it according to an independent valuation, and found someone willing to buy it for much much more that what he (Stewart) paid for it. Good for him. I think we're all in favor of buying low and selling high.

Trump was accused of (well, found guilty of /shaking my dang head/) applying for a loan using one of his properties as collateral, and "overvaluing" that property on the loan application. Stewart did nothing like this, and I think everyone should drop this "but Jon Stewart did it too!" talking point because it is wrong.

If I'm mistaken about any of the facts, I'd be happy to be corrected.

Mark said...

Gusty, Stewart sold his house for a hefty profit. That isn't 'overvaluing' anything as someone made an offer at that price.

But go ahead and correlate selling something at a profit with lying on loan documents, it says a lot about your logical abilities and fact sourcing.

Ampersand said...

The extent of social change in the past two decades has been startling. One of the many changes has been a precipitous decline in the respect that centrists and conservatives feel for not just the press, but also for the big corporations, the intelligence community, schools (K-12 and higher ed), the FBI, the learned professions,public health officials, NGOs, scientists, the Democratic Party, and the courts.

This is troubling, because I can't think of any realistically possible events that will reverse the decline.

The 2024 election is shaping up as lose/lose. Biden's victory would be disastrous. Trump's victory would be less disastrous, but still will start unprecedented left wing /progressive disruptions mandated by the intense moral urgency of stopping Trump.

Hassayamper said...

I do not have anything in common with democrats.

The only thing I have left in common with them is that I want to see the other party destroyed by any means necessary. Not just defeated, but completely shattered, such that its members flee to Canada or Europe to escape our wrath.

gadfly said...

Mitt Romney observes: "And so far as I know, you don't pay someone $130,000 not to have sex with you."

Robert Cook said...

"Jon Stewart go caught over valuing his NYC property by millions, right after railing on Trump for 'doing the same.'"

Stewart didn't do the same thing at all. Trump overvalued his property for tax advantages; Stewart simply priced his house at a number he hoped he could get, and someone bought it at that price. Entirely legal transaction.

lonejustice said...

Jon Stewart and Bill Maher are finally seeing the light, and are willing to get outside their liberal bubble, yet Trump supporters keep on vilifying them. I am glad that they are able to get outside their hive/echo/Borg zone, which many Trump supporters are unable to do. Good for them.

Humperdink said...

the gad quoted the Mitt: "Mitt Romney observes: "And so far as I know, you don't pay someone $130,000 not to have sex with you.'"

How would Romney know, he's a Mormon.

Darury said...

I'm sure other's will point the stupidity of this comment as well, but I can't let this pass:

Trump overvalued his property for tax advantages; Stewart simply priced his house at a number he hoped he could get, and someone bought it at that price.

Who in their right mind "over-values" a property for tax purposes? Taxes are determined by the city\county based on what THEY determine to be a fair market value. Lenders also determine the value of the property separate from the owner to ensure they are no loaning out money on a worthless property. I could apply for a $1M loan on my house and they'd laugh me out of office.

Humperdink said...

I watched the entire video. Liebowitz is just not funny. Rush was depicting the media chorus using the same lingo for decades and was not meant to be comedic.

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...

It takes twinging Jon Stewart to point out how ridiculous our media behaves?

OK!

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...

Again- Gadfly guzzles the swill at MSNBC

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...

This just in: Breaking. Trump farted and we are assembling a team of experts because we are fairly certain that fart is a felony.

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...

He Screwed her and paid her to shut up.

That is not illegal.

the left turning made it a campaign finance issue. It's not.

Leland said...

hmm, so what are we NOT talking about?

Massive regulatory changes to the Title IX laws made without Congressional input.

Achilles said...


Robert Cook said...

"Jon Stewart go caught over valuing his NYC property by millions, right after railing on Trump for 'doing the same.'"

Stewart didn't do the same thing at all. Trump overvalued his property for tax advantages; Stewart simply priced his house at a number he hoped he could get, and someone bought it at that price. Entirely legal transaction.


So was Trump's. And they were the same thing.

You are just a dishonest piece of shit pretending Trump did something everybody in real estate does on a daily basis.

Tina Trent said...

Now let's do the Clinton Foundation.

Please, suckers. Because it's definitely worth millions of tax-exempt dollars to do whatever the hell Chelsea Clinton was doing there.

At least Monica Lewinski pays retail tax for her purses.

Josephbleau said...

“Stewart didn't do the same thing at all. Trump overvalued his property for tax advantages; Stewart simply priced his house at a number he hoped he could get, and someone bought it at that price. Entirely legal transaction.“

Did you read the shit story you posted in support of your claim? The details are exactly opposite of the conclusions drawn. A lie will always be loved by liars.

Josephbleau said...

“Mitt Romney observes: "And so far as I know, you don't pay someone $130,000 not to have sex with you."

What utter bullshit, in a blackmail situation it is often easier to quiet the claim than go through a time consuming effort to prove you are pure. mitt Romney, the perfect asshole. Is he not so pristine? Is he not so smug? Is he not the perfect jerk? I bet he did cut the gay guy’s hair off. I bet he did make the poor dog ride on the roof of the car at 70 mph.

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...

Now do the corrupt Biden family.... given a free pass by just about everyone -

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...

Gadfly is a lunatic and a liar. yeah - reading comprehension is not his strength. Then again - he swills NBC affiliates. so - there ya go.

Oligonicella said...

doctrev:
More than ten of today's posts at Instapundit are about campus protests, which would only make sense if students were killed by the police.

But not if others were harmed by the students, right?

"Death to America", physically attacking people, illegally blocking egress bordering on if not kidnapping, jamming a pole in someone's eye - those are not newsworthy?

I disagree.

Rusty said...

Mark said...
"Gusty, Stewart sold his house for a hefty profit. That isn't 'overvaluing' anything as someone made an offer at that price.

But go ahead and correlate selling something at a profit with lying on loan documents, it says a lot about your logical abilities and fact sourcing."

Point to the "lie" on the loan documents, Mark. Seriously I want to see the document he lied on.
Balls in your court.






Mike (MJB Wolf) said...

Gadfly, if we can assess our own tax base why does every municipality have assessors?

Mark said...

Rusty, first show me where Stewart filed paperwork mistating the price.

You cannot.

In order for the ball to get into my court, you need a piece of evidence suggesting these two things are comparable.

I will wait.

iowan2 said...

Rusty.

The example PROVES valuations are not a science. The last house we sold, the real estate agent over valued the listing price by 50%. You insist our agent committed a crime, He defrauded us.

Robert Cook said...

"So was Trump's. And they were the same thing."

Nope! You can keep crying about this if you like, but...(shrug)...you're wrong.

lonejustice said...

According to yesterday's Hollywood Reporter:

"Since Stewart’s return, The Daily Show has averaged about 546,000 viewers per episode (all figures in this story are for first airings on Comedy Central only and don’t include simulcasts or any delayed viewing or streaming). That’s a 62 percent increase over the 336,000 viewers the show averaged for the 22 weeks (plus one day) it aired original episodes last year."

So, like it or not, Stewart has a wide audience.

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...

No one was harmed - but Trump is guilty!
The Soviet Left have spoken... in unison.

Mike (MJB Wolf) said...

So, like it or not, Stewart has a wide audience.

Dude, less than 1 million viewers is NOT a "wide audience" on cable. It's lame. It is about 1/20th of Joe Rogan's podcast or 1/9th of Gutfed! on Fox News Channel, a like comparison.

mikee said...

I, for one, am about to go into the local tax appraiser's valuation protest process for my properties. Here's hoping I can get through it without being charged with a crime.

What a wonderful world it is, with such fun things to do in it.

Jim at said...

Trump overvalued his property for tax advantages

That's the stupidest thing I've read in a long time.

If anything, you undervalue your property for tax advantages.

Good lord.

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...

Jim at... 2:53

Good Lord indeed.

Leftists are economic illiterates.

Rusty said...

Mark said...
"Rusty, first show me where Stewart filed paperwork mistating the price."
I never claimed the two were similar. Just the opposite. I asked you to prove where on Trumps loan paperwork you assert he lied. Show me where he lied. That's all I ask.