Jon Stewart and other commies

Echoes of Murrow

“ There have been other instances when an advocate on a television show turned around public policy almost immediately by concerted focus on an issue — but not recently, and in much different circumstances. “The two that come instantly to mind are Murrow and Cronkite,” said Robert J. Thompson, a professor of television at Syracuse University. ”

Drudge's link suggests that it's over the top to compare television comedian Jon Stewart with CBS legend Edward R. Murrow.  Not so.  Both are/were leftist ideologues who tailored news to suit their ideologies.  Stewart does it for laughs, Murrow ... ?  Maybe Ed Murrow followed instructions same as Dalton Trumbo and film industry counterparts.  Maybe Larry Duggan threw himself on the grenade meant for Murrow?  If you go the Smithsonian you can watch Murrow on an old television kinescope.  What kinescope?  Why,  the one where he castigates Sen. Joe McCarthy.  That action made him a hero to the left.  What else was there that confers sainthood status on the man?   Interviewing Hollywood celebrities person-to-person in their living rooms?  Going back to my Free Republic days in the mid-nineties, I remember thinking that somewhere in the Venona files, or KGB files unearthed after the fall of the Soviet Union, is a folder on Ed Murrow.  He begat Cronkite, who begat Dan Rather and the supporting casts which made CBS News the leading provider of agitprop in radio/television news for 75 years. As actual journalists, they're all jokes, just like Stewart.