Email addresses for Jon Stewart, Comedy Central and Viacom

I don't have any, but they'll surely be needed, so let's collect them here.

Jon Stewart outed himself as a hard-core McCain supporter (or PUMA-boy at best) on tonight's Daily Show by noting the incredible irony of countering the perception you are a Muslim extremist by complaining about a cartoon.

Sorry, Mister Stewart, but not everyone who goes ape-shit over a cartoon is a Muslim extremist. Recent data from the non-partisan Institute of Numbers suggest that Muslim extremists account for no more than 92.3% of hysterical attacks on cartoons. (How soon we forget the passionate "Let Ziggy be Ziggy" movement of the late 1980s.)

Irony, Mister Stewart? Not everyone gets irony, and it is thus at odds with the goals of a truly egalitarian society.

I ask, no I DEMAND that you henceforth limit the contents of the Daily Show to cute kitten pictures and videos of men being struck in the testicles by flying objects.

Real comedy is something we can ALL enjoy.

As Marge Simpson once said, "I prefer a T-shirt with a simple joke... like Support the Troops."

Though I do feel like emailing him about showing the Clark clip last night (and editing out the original question) and piling on him , which was a bit of a lazy attempt to "even out" the comments made by the McCain surrogates while Jon was on a break...Clark deserves better, I think Jon has personal affection for McCain that may have made him defensive about that. But it still pissed me off. But despite him liking McCain as a person, I have found him to be pretty good at criticizing McCain so far this year, though I don't always agree with him on his take of things.

And in terms of the cartoon, I didn't find it offensive, but I can understand why others would be...like Colbert said in the NYT article, the New Yorker had a right to do the cover, but Obama also had the right to be angry about it.

don't embarass me more than I already have :)

Though I shouldn't be embarassed, I have seen some pretty freaky shit posted here that I immediately thought was parody, but soon realized that the OP was sadly serious.


it's been a long day

characterizations.


I'd like to point out to him that yesterday, he used an extremely mono-dimensional characterization of Wes Clark's comment about McCain for a cheap gag. Not satire; a gag.

Ok, I'm on the other side of the New Yorker cartoon...what you just wrote was actually good satire

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has fried my brain and made me just confused in general... :)

Ok, but at least I got in my piece about Clark, that angered me!

The show is supposed to poke fun at political stuff. Are we supposed to demand that he only make fun of one side? Not all of us agree that the magazine cover was bad. So doesn't Stewart have the right to think that it was no big deal?

I believe that we should leave the write-in campaigns for the really important stuff. Stewart's treatment of the magazine cover (and of Gen. Clark) don't meet that criteria IMO. Plus I don't think he was dissing Clark at all. I guess it's all in how you look at it.

Remember... he's dissing the media and how it responds to this stuff. He was dissing the media's response to Clark's statement and the media's response to the magazine cover.

its so hard to tell these days

don't worry, i don't expect you to understand.

Whether or not you are BEHAVING like an idiot is rather moot.

Jon Stewart is a Republican!!!

Colbert is turning our nation into right-wing bear-hating wackos!!!

Liberal.

but Jon also showed folks not getting the so-called "satire". It was quite telling to those willing to listen.

Minute Mouse was not being paid scale and was caged in a filthy, non union carrier while on set. I was a Muslim extremist, however, (as was most of the cast, including, most fervently, Mr. Frog), so my experience does validate your statistics.

I posted this and the full text and Video of Obama's excellent speech today to see which would sink fastest.

I think we all know the answer to that!

Some of those who demand only uncontroversial posts are the same ones who only come in here to fight.

give it a rest!

You (by which I mean many around the net) sound rabid on this issue.

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I had to leave.

It left me permanently Numb.

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It's too late to think that hard...please tell!

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that wolf blitzer is a nazi. tonight's first segment was BRILLIANT. and they must have been rolling while writting it cause they had 2 segments on it. wonder if today's 'meting' of the writers was taped.

You just about had me until I got to the cute kittens. Well done

...is that Jon Stewart is actually funny. If only The New Yorker understood that, it could have come up with a good version of that cover.

George Carlin explained it best when he described the concept of "context." That's what was missing from the New Yorker cover. They assumed the context that they were a liberal publication was enough. Obviously, it wasn't.

Carlin joked about much more taboo subjects than anything in the New Yorker, but he managed to get away with it (with most people, anyway), because he understood how to provide context and, more importantly, how to be funny.

That's the sin committed by The New Yorker. They don't understand humor and one of its crucial elements, context.

People have a much harder time getting morally outraged when they're laughing.

I know we've had more than enough posts about that, but since you made the oblique reference, I thought I'd chime in.

Please picture a walrus trying to get a peanut out of a storm drain. That's not funny. But that's because you don't see the $50 bill under the peanut and the hooker standing in the motel doorway. Okay, that may not be so funny either. But it does provide some context.

By the way, the hooker has crabs.

because Stewart is a "hack for the Democratic Party." He picks on Republicans all the time and never on Dems--according to Joey.