In the meet the press interview with Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday June 19 Jon Stewart was asked about liberal bias in the media where he refused to accept that there was any bias except on Fox news.
He was adamant that Fox News was alone in promoting an ideological agenda. When asked about the New York Times he again made a distinction without a difference by claiming they were not “relentlessly activists…in a purely partisan way.”
It would have been a better interview if Chris Wallace showed the campaign coverage of the 2008 Presidential race across the lame stream media. Or perhaps the Tea Party Movement rallies in which CNN a reporter argued with the crowd she was covering.
How could Jon Stewart defend this blatant smearing of Americans by this left-wing reporter and her “Fox-wing-conspiracy” theory? It would be a very funny joke if he called this reporter non-partisan but just lazy.
The editorial page was once understood to be the one place in a newspaper where biased opinion was allowed while news stories contained only the facts. Sadly today in both print media and television news broadcasts the opinion agenda romps through many stories.
Jon Stewart tries to compare apples and oranges by not differentiating between Fox News Sunday with Fox News. One is editorial and the other is just reporting news. Is Jon Stewart suggesting that CNN newswire is the same as Wolf Blitzer’s Situation room or Anderson Cooper’s 360 shows?
Fox News has Hannity and O’Reilly that are intended to espouse an editorial content but to call them activists while Blitzer and Cooper are I guess according to Jon’s logic are sensationalists, choosing conflict for ratings because they are lazy.
STEWART: -- "the bias of the mainstream media -- oh, I'm not saying it's defensible, but the bias of the mainstream media is toward sensationalism, conflict and laziness."
The reason Jon Stewart and liberals need to bash Fox news and refute liberal bias in the media is to continue to delude the American people that liberal ideas are mainstream ideas. Sophism needs to hide as truth and fact otherwise it has no sway.
The focus is to always highlight the one loony that calls themselves conservative and hype their words or actions to paint the whole ideology wacko. However, the liberal wacko is either ignored or defended as a victim of human frailty. If there is a lambasting of a liberal it occurs only with the self promotion that claims that the left is fair-minded. Anthony Weiner was booted because he lied to the liberal media not because his actions were perverse.
Americans have been subjected to the double standard in media long enough to understand that the bias is not overt but subtle.
Jon Stewart argues to us luddites that Hollywood and he are not liberal activists but capitalists first.
STEWART: "Yes. Here is the difference between you and I -- I'm a comedian first. My comedy is informed by an ideological background. There's no question about that.
The thing that will never understand and the thing that in some respect conservative activists will never understand is that Hollywood, yes, they're liberal. But that's not their primary motivating force. I'm not an activist. I'm a comedian."Yet what he fails to understand is the irony of making money from our free enterprise Republic then bashing it is what infuriates most Americans. Liberal media and Hollywood make their money from capitalism while they trash American values.
John Stewart can’t see that liberalism because he lives in the mockery room that views conservatives as ill educated fools.
The issue is not whether a news report is slanted or a movie is liberal it is that the reporter or movie script writers constantly need to interject their liberal ideology everywhere. Conservative Americans don’t believe it is a conspiracy but rather a logical outcome of human limitation. If institutions are owned by liberals, hire liberal executives that hire liberal reporters, can Americans reasonably expect neutrality or fairness for conservative ideas?
Why does Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth get shown in our public schools if there is no liberal bias activism? Why does Hollywood promote Michael Moore films if there is no liberal activism in Hollywood? When was the last Hollywood movie that did not depict corporations as greedy environmental Satanists? When was the last war movie that showed our soldiers restraint over savaging civilians? When was the last comedy that did not make fun of family values? When was the last Hollywood film that you could bring multiple generations of family members to see and not be embarrassed about the sexual content (unnecessary to plot or theme) thrown into the film?
If Jon Stewart want to talk about laziness in media and Hollywood we can agree on that without question. Hollywood is not only liberal leaning but bereft of quality script writing that shows itself by the current wealth of Comic Book movies and old movie remakes.
Good movies today are few and far between because the entertainment is either poorly written or promoting anti-moral values. It is not about political liberalism in Hollywood and television entertainment but rather its low quality valueless legacy to youth that continue to be dumbed- down with moronic entertainment.
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