Jon Stewart used the most recent episode of his “Weekly Present” podcast (by way of The Each day Beast) to criticize the media for getting People scared about Donald Trump‘s second time period as president earlier than it’s even begun.
“The Each day Present” host mentioned America is in a “transitional interval the place we’re not positive about whether or not the bottom we’re standing on is stable” and famous how the media is simply stoking extra concern by being “satisfied that we’re the Roadrunner and the Coyote and the Coyote has run over the cliff, and we simply seemed down and realized there’s nothing beneath our toes and now we’re plunging to our deaths.”
“We don’t know what’s going to occur when Donald Trump takes over,” Stewart mentioned, including that People ought to be “ready for all outcomes” however “I don’t know the way useful it’s to get us shitting our pants this a lot, this early.”
Stewart is usually essential relating to how the media covers Trump. Throughout Trump’s hush cash trial in April, Stewart slammed the media for reporting on all of the “mundane bullshit” from the trial as if it was “earth shattering information.” He inspired the press on the time to “restrict the protection to the problems at hand and check out to not create an all-encompassing spectacle of essentially the most banal of particulars.”
“What the fuck are we doing?” Stewart requested. “Look! Sooner or later on this trial, one thing essential and revelatory goes to occur. However none of us are going to note as a result of the hour spent on his speculative, facial tics. If the media tries to make us really feel like essentially the most mundane bullshit is Earth shattering, we gained’t consider you when it’s actually fascinating. It’s your traditional boy-who-cried-Wolf… Blitzer.”
On the finish of October following Trump’s controversial rally at Madison Sq. Backyard, which featured comic Tony Hinchcliffe making a divisive joke about Puerto Rico, Stewart informed the media to not get carried away by specializing in the joke a lot and thus ignoring Trump himself.
“The media is concentrated on the horrible jokes that had been made. Deal with Trump, who would have the facility,” Stewart mentioned in a brand new interview with Self-importance Truthful. “Deal with the man going, ‘I’m going to deport all people utilizing the regulation we used to intern Japanese folks.’”
Hearken to Stewart’s most up-to-date episode of the “Weekly Present” podcast right here.
