Before Jon Stewart bowed out as host of The Daily Show, he had one more interview with President Obama in July, in which CBS described them as “two old friends” on the verge of leaving their respective professions.Boom ! !
Yes, shocking though it may be, Stewart openly favored the Obama administration, as did his rather small but like-thinking audience and the network he worked for, and he did very little to hide the fact. It would not have been good for business.
That was never on display more clearly than in one of his final shows, where he aired a Fox News segment where media critics discussed the news Stewart had met privately with Obama at the White House on two occasions. The story, of course, furthered the idea that the lefty comic was more interested in helping out the administration than being fully committed to laughs, targets’ political persuasions be damned.
Stewart challenged that the Fox hosts had not produced any video evidence of such devotion and played his own montage of Fox showing “even Stewart” going after the White House for various failings over the previous six years. Boom! Got ’em!
Head Shot!
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