More Praise for Jon Stewart/TDSWJS

[REP]

http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200~24781~2413039,00.html

The 1974 Cronkite

Jon Stewart is drawing big laughs by telling the truth

By Steve Young

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The networks? Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings. Too liberal, says Fox News. Fox News? Brit Hume, Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity. Too conservative, say the networks. Talk radio? Too many to list. Even Bill O'Reilly thinks talk radio is full of deceit, and he's on it.

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Enter Jon Stewart. A fake news host. Funny and arguably the most entertaining interviewer in politics, Stewart has become today's Walter Cronkite. Actually not today's Walter Cronkite, who has been painted as an out-of-the-closet myopic liberal. Stewart is 1974's Walter Cronkite. The most trusted man in America. His "Daily Show" on the Comedy Channel is the most consistently funny show on television. It also just might be the most honest news show, fake or real.

The United States of Audience has become divided in a way that would make the Civil War jealous, yet the presumably liberal Stewart has captured hearts from both sides of the political aisle. Perhaps that's because he doesn't belittle his audience by dumbing down the material or feeding them dogmatic pablum. You get the idea the Stewart actually trusts his audience to make their own decisions. No slogan. For real.

Stewart likes to dismiss his show as faux news, not to be taken seriously. But when he does an interview, he knows how to ask a question, like this past week when he asked John Kerry, "Were you or were you not in Cambodia?" More than a question, it was meant as a cut-to-the-chase commentary on, and jab at, the previous month's ad hominem Swift Boat attacks. Still, how many real newsman or pundits would give their teeth to be able to say they asked that question with Kerry sitting in front of them?

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[Kolesar]

1. Republicans that like Jon Stewart?

"Stewart has captured hearts from both sides of the political aisle"
I find that hard to believe.

[REP]

2. At Least One Does - McCain

And that weasel Gillespie has been at least twice, and O'Really is going to be on again in a few weeks...

[Emmanuel Goldstein]

3. I said the same thing in a news survey...

... that I thought Jon Stewart would end up as the Walter Cronkite of the modern era, "the most trusted man in America," because only a 'fake' news show can get away with telling the truth in a world of lies. Everybody recognizes this in him, and in the show; 'real' TV journalists were scandalized when TDS won the Television Critic's Award for outstanding news and information program.

As for the Republicans, I think most of them appear because they're expecting the kind of deferment they get on Fox and CNN, and while they're sitting in the green room watching the show as it's being taped, waiting to be called out for their interview, it dawns on them To Serve Man is the title of an alien cookbook.

[Eloriel]

4. I had no idea he won that award

That's amazing. Stewart does an unbelievable job, and I think it's only fitting that in this day and age when the "real news" has turned into merely "infortainment" that infotainment/comedy churns out real news and honest commentary. the more I watch it, the more I love it.