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arcane1

(38,613 posts)
Wed Mar 25, 2015, 05:24 PM Mar 2015

I completely understand why Jon Stewart is leaving. I can barely watch The Daily Show now

There is nothing wrong with the quality of the show. Jon and crew never fail to deliver 1,000% every single day.

But I can no longer tolerate hearing even one second of Hannity or O'Reilly or Beck etc. Even when Jon is giving them a Class A skewering, it's starting to feel less and less worth it.

I was thinking about this last night, and realized: He has to actually watch this crap, every day, finding joke opportunities. I'm just getting little snippets and it drives me crazy!

I'm going to miss the mortal hell out of him, but I'm looking forward to a break from wingnuttery too!!!


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I completely understand why Jon Stewart is leaving. I can barely watch The Daily Show now (Original Post) arcane1 Mar 2015 OP
I'm pretty sure it's his writers who have to actually watch this crap, every day. KamaAina Mar 2015 #1
True, though he at least has to see which clips they choose arcane1 Mar 2015 #2
If it was my job, I could do it, but I would demand concessions Cirque du So-What Mar 2015 #3
How do you know they don't? KamaAina Mar 2015 #6
Lately I've found Last Week Tonight more heart-rending but I know what you mean. randome Mar 2015 #4
Agreed, but I can handle the topics themselves, just not the Fox clips arcane1 Mar 2015 #7
I used to have a job that required me to listen to Rush and Hannity... CincyDem Mar 2015 #5
Good lord. Did they have Foxconn-style suicide-prevention nets on the windows? arcane1 Mar 2015 #8
No - first floor office. But no sharp objects allowed in the office. :-) CincyDem Mar 2015 #9
Indeed, they aren't hard to figure out once you know their game arcane1 Mar 2015 #10
You need to get Sirius/XM installed in your car. YOHABLO Mar 2015 #12
They should have given you a medal. I couldn't have done it, just listening to Michael Weiner appalachiablue Mar 2015 #13
Savage is from another planet. CincyDem Mar 2015 #16
He is horrible and has quite the following. Raging about librul hippie bookstore clerks, appalachiablue Mar 2015 #17
Well last nights ''equal pay for women'' segment wasn't working, not that they didn't mean well. YOHABLO Mar 2015 #11
I kind of gave up on Larry Wilmore too. femmocrat Mar 2015 #14
Opposite for me. Unknown Beatle Mar 2015 #15
This message was self-deleted by its author Corruption Inc Mar 2015 #18

Cirque du So-What

(25,988 posts)
3. If it was my job, I could do it, but I would demand concessions
Wed Mar 25, 2015, 05:46 PM
Mar 2015

like being able to get baked during lunch hour without repercussions from management.

 

randome

(34,845 posts)
4. Lately I've found Last Week Tonight more heart-rending but I know what you mean.
Wed Mar 25, 2015, 05:46 PM
Mar 2015

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CincyDem

(6,390 posts)
5. I used to have a job that required me to listen to Rush and Hannity...
Wed Mar 25, 2015, 05:51 PM
Mar 2015


...thank god that one is over. Seriously, I didn't realize how stressed it was making me until I left. Painful.

Now it's Spotify all day for this one.
 

arcane1

(38,613 posts)
8. Good lord. Did they have Foxconn-style suicide-prevention nets on the windows?
Wed Mar 25, 2015, 06:04 PM
Mar 2015

Glad you made it through alive!!

CincyDem

(6,390 posts)
9. No - first floor office. But no sharp objects allowed in the office. :-)
Wed Mar 25, 2015, 06:14 PM
Mar 2015


All I could think was "free at last, free at last...thank god almighty free at last". I know it was intended for a different situation but it sure felt right when 12pm EST rolled around and I didn't have to worry about losing my lunch listening to el-Rushbo.

Seriously - one of the things that it taught me was the degree to which I could always see their strategy by listening to what they accused the "lefties" of doing. If they said "lefties are trying to suppress the vote" - I always knew that was their rethug strategy for the week. Sometimes I'd hear about the left's war on women...or the left's blatant racism vis-a-vis Ferguson...or the left's treasonous behavior in not wanting to bomb Iran back into the 10th century (which by their calculations is only about 50 years...never mind that, independent of political philosophy, Iran's top politicians made it through some pretty tough US universities).

Once I could listen to this chit as "entertainment" the way one youtubes a train wreck, it became tolerable. But that took me about 3 months. Before that, I was ready to f'ing shoot myself even night on the way home. I felt like I was on the edge of road rage because I spend the afternoon listening to that crap.

appalachiablue

(41,177 posts)
13. They should have given you a medal. I couldn't have done it, just listening to Michael Weiner
Wed Mar 25, 2015, 07:20 PM
Mar 2015

Savage a few times on the radio in the car I could barely make it home. Any left news that starts using too much Fox style material and I'm gone.

CincyDem

(6,390 posts)
16. Savage is from another planet.
Wed Mar 25, 2015, 08:22 PM
Mar 2015


Listened a few times and made me want to puncture my eardrums. What a loon.

appalachiablue

(41,177 posts)
17. He is horrible and has quite the following. Raging about librul hippie bookstore clerks,
Wed Mar 25, 2015, 08:30 PM
Mar 2015

welfare fatties and Islamo-Fascist Obama is more than I can take. The police should charge for DUIH, driving under the influence of HATE, for distressed, dangerous road ragers who listen to him and others. He was banned in the UK for his talk, why can't we do that here? Cuz of RW Freedum!?

 

YOHABLO

(7,358 posts)
11. Well last nights ''equal pay for women'' segment wasn't working, not that they didn't mean well.
Wed Mar 25, 2015, 07:18 PM
Mar 2015

I kind of feel like since Jon is jumping ship, that his writers are doing so as well. Larry Wilmore's show is dull and somewhat tedious. It's not working for me. It's hard to replace Steven Colbert indeed. But you also have to have good writers.

femmocrat

(28,394 posts)
14. I kind of gave up on Larry Wilmore too.
Wed Mar 25, 2015, 07:30 PM
Mar 2015

When I do watch it, I just catch the opening monologue then go to sleep. It was too repetitious.... same thing every night.

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