Send in the Clown - Jon Stewart

Send in the Clown

“” This is the appearance we’ve been waiting for – Comedy Central host Jon Stewart making an appearance on a Sunday morning national public affairs program, especially one on a network he so often ridicules. On Sunday’s “Fox News Sunday,” with host Chris Wallace, “The Daily Show” host explained why he thinks Fox News is different from other news organizations which are criticized by some for being “as liberal as Fox News is conservative.”      WALLACE: [Y]ou love to take shots at Fox News.     STEWART: Yes I do.     WALLACE: Over the years, you have called us –and we’re going to put this on the screen because this is heavy stuff: ‘A biased organization, relentlessly promoting an ideological agenda under the rubric of being a news organization.’     STEWART: Rubric?     WALLACE: And I think that was slightly the wrong use of the word – ‘a relentless agenda-driven, 24-hour news propaganda delivery system.’ Where do you come up with this stuff?     STEWART: It’s easy when you feel it. You have to feel it in your soul.     WALLACE: Well, here is the deal – are you willing to say the same thing about the mainstream media, ABC, CBS, NBC, Washington Post, New York Times?     STEWART: No.     WALLACE: Would you say the same thing about them that they are, in your words, a ‘propaganda-delivery system relentlessly pushing a liberal agenda’?     STEWART: No, I wouldn’t say that.     WALLACE: Why not?     STEWART: MSNBC is attempting that. I think they’re attempting — they have looked at your business model and they have seen the success of it and I think they’re attempting to be a more activist organization.     WALLACE: You don’t think The New York Times is a liberal organization now pushing a liberal agenda?     STEWART: The New York Times – no. I think they are to a certain extent. Do I think they’re relentlessly activist? No. In a purely liberal partisan way? No, I don’t. I think this is — Fox is a very special. Read more: Jon Stewart is  the go-to news source for Obama's yuppie base.  I guess it's a good thing that he be be exposed to adults once in awhile.  Can't hurt.  There's nothing I can possibly add to that transcript.  Stewart, rest assured, and like Rachel Maddow, is honest in his conviction that he's right, and making sense.   There is this though, "Why Jon Stewart Is All the Rage" if you've never read it. UPDATED  - The Brit's take on all this, and what Jon Stewart has in common with Bill Clinton