{"id":10226,"date":"2010-11-14T00:34:52","date_gmt":"2010-11-14T00:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/if-he-believes-he-jon-stewart-has-no-political\/"},"modified":"2010-11-14T00:34:52","modified_gmt":"2010-11-14T00:34:52","slug":"if-he-believes-he-jon-stewart-has-no-political","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/if-he-believes-he-jon-stewart-has-no-political\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

If he believes he [Jon Stewart] has no political viewpoint, that\u2019s ludicrous. For him to now say, \u2018\u2018I\u2019m not in the media, I\u2019m not poised in this world of political expression, I never take gratuitous shots at people or go over the top and I\u2019m not particularly pointed in one direction,\u2019\u2019 each of those things was ludicrous.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Keith Olbermann<\/p>\n

Reaction, by\u00a0ericmortensen<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think that\u2019s what Stewart is saying. I think people are putting a lot of words in his mouth. The rally for sanity and the messaging around it was best summed up by the Oprah appearance he made before the rally:<\/p>\n

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\u201cSeventy to 80 percent of the people in this country are reasonable, nice individuals, may disagree on principle on things, but could come up with rational compromises, could accomplish things, could get things done, could live with the results. And then the other 15 to 20 percent of the country run the place. People don\u2019t have time to take sides and to shout.\u00a0\u2019Crazy\u2019 gets on television, but \u2018normal\u2019 has to make dinner.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Let\u2019s look at that last line again.<\/p>\n

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\u201c\u2018Crazy\u2019 gets on television, but \u2018normal\u2019 has to make dinner.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The media is frustrated with Stewart because he rejects their framework. He\u2019s not using the accepted narrative, which is, \u2018Crazy Republicans\u2019 get on television, but \u2018normal Democrats\u2019 have to make dinner. Or vice versa. \u00a0He\u2019s not talking about Republicans or Democrats at all.<\/p>\n

This is very hard for those in the media to digest.<\/p>\n

Olbermann refers to Stewart\u2019s \u201cpolitical viewpoint\u201d, which underscores exactly what Stewart is getting at. Not everything is political. Not everything is black and white, left and right, us versus them.<\/p>\n

Much of the uproar over the rally came from the video montages, with most people focusing only on the yelling political pundits. But there was more. There was the montage of sensationalist news reports about dirty hotel remote controls. It was riddled with fear, despite the fact that virtually nobody has ever gotten sick from using a hotel remote control.\u00a0Then there was the bit about people driving in their cars and merging into a single lane.<\/p>\n

His criticisms of the media:<\/p>\n

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  1. 24\/7 news yells at us all day. They insist on riling us up. The left, right and so-called moderate or objective news organizations do this.<\/li>\n
  2. 24\/7 news insists on framing everything as left versus right and us versus them. They tell us we\u2019re different, or opposed, even though we spend 99% of our lives getting along just fine. CNN does it because they think that\u2019s an appropriate way to report the news. Fox does it because it makes them a ton of money. MSNBC does it so they can compete with Fox. But they reduce every last American to the political left or right. They never dig any deeper. They never seek a different perspective.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    24\/7 news pits people against each other. Stewart calls it tribalism. I think that\u2019s apt. And that\u2019s what\u2019s happening here. Stewart isn\u2019t talking about left vs. right, but 24\/7 news is turning it into that anyway.<\/p>\n

    But this isn\u2019t some kumbaya shit. It wasn\u2019t the rally for unity<\/em>. It was the rally for sanity<\/em>. It wasn\u2019t, \u201ccan\u2019t we just get along?\u201d It was \u201cmost of us get along just fine so why is TV telling us otherwise?\u201d<\/p>\n

    Reaction by me, bigboxcar<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n

    I need to ruminate more on what\u00a0ericmortensen<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>has written above, but I really like the vibe of his analysis. I lament the way politics has become the ‘us’ vs ‘them’. Maybe it will work itself out. Or maybe the crazy will continue to get on TV and I will continue to have to make dinner.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    If he believes he [Jon Stewart] has no political viewpoint, that\u2019s ludicrous. For him to now say, \u2018\u2018I\u2019m not in the media, I\u2019m not poised in this world of political expression, I never take gratuitous shots at people or go over the top and I\u2019m not particularly pointed in one direction,\u2019\u2019 each of those things […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[169],"class_list":["post-10226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-politics","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}