Jon Stewart Reduced to Stenographer After White House Meetings Revealed

[link to www.mediaite.com]


For Jon Stewart, this certainly isn’t the high note he wanted to go out on.

The guy who prides himself on speaking truth to power, as the anti-establishment, take-to-both-sides-hero for millennials everywhere… reduced to a stenographer for a sitting president so thin-skinned about any and all criticism that he needs to dictate his own comedy. As originally reported in Politico by Darren Samuelson, the outgoing Daily Show host met with President Barack Obama twice in the past four years but failed to let anyone know about it. [snip]

It really makes little sense from a journalism perspective to go down this road: Why attend a meeting with the most powerful person on the planet if you can’t report back what was said? In the end, these people are there not for an interview, but for instructions. And that’s exactly why Stewart took the Acela down to DC: To come back to New York and serve as the Baghdad Bob of arguably the most influential news program—forget that it’s billed as fake—on the dial right now.

But don’t take him seriously… he’s just a comedian that happens to have access to the president. All major comedians can say that, right? He’s also a director and has acted in the past.

Looks like it’s time to add stenographer to the list as well. No matter…Stewart will get the Letterman treatment next week when he leaves The Daily Show, and rightly so. He didn’t earn $25-$30M a year for hosting a show four days a week for nothing. His timing, delivery and intelligence is something you don’t teach or learn.

In the end, Jon Stewart will be looked back on as one of the great performers of our generation.

He’s also one of the more dishonest, and about as phony as they come.