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[–] Novius 3 points 6 points (+9|-3) ago 

Jon Stewart couldn't be Jon Stewart by the end, the Republican Neocon positions were too present in the democratic party as well to joke much about it afterwards. He tried a different tack but that was two-faced lying since he told Republicans in 2008 once Obama won (does anyone have that interview? I think the question asked of stewart was "what are you going to do now that a democrat is in office".) that he would treat Obama like Bush and clearly that's not true.

The daily show became a column of the white house and helped keep it standing, the daily show factually managed perspectives of a nation of young people and enabled as much Bush hatred as Obama Support. They carried water like the MSM, and they lied (by omission) about doing so with probably-sincerely ignorant certainty.

Once the Jessica Williams college campus rape stuff started, a farce attempting to educate rather than a joke requiring prior understanding, I knew it was dead. A black man was propped up to try to keep it afloat with white-guilt quotas-and-representation-will-save-us emotional horseshit.

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[–] Novius 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I really wish I could find that video about how he thought his Daily Show would wind up acting the same under Obama, it really didn't turn out that way and I don't think a lot of people noticed the tone change from attacking power-being-misused to kind-of-partisan for the democrats (under the belief they aren't as bad). I don't think Stewart was aware at the time either that it would change so distinctively but its so clear looking back of the difference between what he did and what he thought it was going to do.