Jon Stewart Slams Obama And The Media Over The New Yorker Magazine Controversy: "It's Just A Fu**ing Cartoon"

Anyone who watches the Daily Show knows that Jon Stewart is a pretty liberal guy, but that he knows hot to cross the comedy fence and poke fun at liberals when he has to. He does go a little over the top with some of the quick cuts out of context from the media about Obama as if the media has been overly harsh to Obama, which I do not believe to be the case. But the fact is that the media is not about information but more often about about sensationalism, creating controversy, entertainment value, or some would simply use the word ratings. The overall message of the segment is both funny and true.


I'd have to say that I agree with Jon Stewart completely. I find this whole New Yorker cover controversy to be very trivial. I think that Obama's response to a liberal magazine that had a cover that satired what the magazine thinks right-wingers believe about Barack Obama and contained a very pro-Obama article on the inside is ridiculous. John McCain even jumped on the bandwagon condemning the New Yorker. The point was that everyone seems to think Americans are too stupid to figure out satire. No one is basing their vote on a New Yorker magazine cartoon anyway. The creation of a controversy over a cartoon was what was "tasteless and offensive."


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