WHEN I HEARD that the rapidly curdling Jon Stewart came out in defense of the racist, sexist, Trumpian-fascist bit done at Trump's Nazi rally I went to look where it was written up. If the top hits on google are any indication it was mostly written up in the Republican-fascist and "entertainment" rags and sites. I'd had about enough of Stewart earlier in the year when I read and heard him on first the best president we've had since LBJ, Joe Biden was being sandbagged and then later, I mean I remember with fondness his over the top take-down of Glenn Beck when he was still doing The Daily Show, which I laughed at but I would guess that's more the writers than him. I'm wondering if in ten years he's going to be a sour old man like Jerry Seinfeld is, whining that People of Color, Latinos, Women, others are calling out the holy, sacrosanct "comedians" when they peddle hate against them defending those poor, unjustly persecuted white male comedians against the onslaught of People who are tired of the kind of shtick that was one of the most effective means of keeping "those" People in their place. Of course the People who endured that and overcame that are mostly white, the Irish, the Italians, white Jews, as enough of them rose in wealth and, so, prominence and influence and mostly white men, at that.
If that Hinchcliffe asshole had used the "c" word in his shtick as he wanted to, I have no problem imagining that Stewart would have defended him. Given how degenerate American "comedy" is these days, I can imagine him defending him if he'd done a Roseanne Barr style Holocaust "joke". I'd like to know if he's ever addressed that recent innovation in edgy "comedy."
Why would Stewart think that the very jerks who are making everyone else into a target should be immune from commentary, mockery, rejection? Why shouldn't the population at large have the opportunity to do what any stand-up audience has the right to do when someone like him bombs and objects to it? That's pretty much what America has been doing since Sunday.
Apparently for Stewart "comedians" are the only thing not allowed to be booed. What a self-serving stand to take. Especially as he rejects far more important and serious ones. He has forfeited any right to be taken seriously, from now on. It is less than a week till we find out if American Hitler 2024 is going to take power, afterall.
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