Battle Royale: Jon Stewart v. Bernard Goldberg by Big Hollywood
If you have been following Big Hollywood’s marquee or if you frequent any site on the internet, you know Jon Stewart and Bernie Goldberg have been going at it. If you feel like watching all the verbal fisticuffs, we’ve compiled the exchange thus far in this post.
The latest shot fired by Goldberg is that by taking on Fox News, Stewart is “throwing spitballs at a battleship.” This is one issue where we at Big Hollywood disagree with what the venerable Mr. Goldberg said. Although “The Daily Show” has significantly less influence than Fox News, Jon Stewart is an incredibly potent weapon in the Left’s war against the Right and it’s our editorial position not to underestimate him (among other things, there is a case to be made he is a primary reason the Democrats recaptured Congress in 2006). We suspect Fox News and Goldberg agree with us to at least some extent since they are the ones who have been devoting time to try to take Stewart down a peg.
So, check them all out and let us know who’s winning so far. Here they are in chronological order with the most recent at the end: see video clip here
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Stewart is so far off base he is in the parking lot. People are taking a comedian seriously who equates"fair and balanced" with just agreeing with LIBERALS. What facts does Stewart report? He is full of vulgarity laced opinions and he is no different than Bill Maher.
He is using his attack on FOX as a METHOD to attract the MSNBC viewers but he for someone who is supposed to be so smart, he is following the same failed tactics as MSNBC and he is using the premise of a joke to show his true beliefs.
He was not warm and fuzzy and funny on his appearance on O'Reilly and actually I feel he is as immature and uninformed as most of his viewers. FOX is a NEWS organization with some entertaining segments, Stewart is a COMIC who is a news pundit WANNABE.
The unedited version of his interview with O'Rielly is even more telling.
He is used to having his way and being able to use his live audience of supporters as a way to keep his energy and look for support for his views.
He had actually made some comments in relation to LIBERAL politicians but these were after-the-fact advice pieces for them to learn from their mistakes and not to repeat them.
Hear are some examples from the unedited interview.
If nothing else, the unedited video will be long remembered for the following quip:
Stewart: "I know what this is. I come from Jersey—it's the same thing: "I'm not saying your mother's a w--re. I'm just saying she has sex for money. With people." [F]ox News used to be all about, you don't criticize a president during wartime. It's unacceptable, it's treasonous, it gives aid and comfort to the enemy. All of a sudden, for some reason you can run out there and say, "Barack Obama is destroying the fabric of this country."
Meanwhile it would appear that Stewart wouldn't dare think to be held to that standard...at least about George Bush, who has a full page of easy to find negative videos
Now with Barack Obama it has been a different story.... I see a couple of comments on policy and the teleprompter use but for as many videos as there are on this page the majority are overwhelming positive for someone who has only had a 5 1/2 minute career.
Stewart is typical of all of the LIBERALS who criticize FOX NEWS. They focus on the fact that FOX actually dares to criticize Obama and they were the only news outlet to show anything positive on George Bush. That in itself should be what causes the red flags to go up.
And this comment from someone in denial:
Stewart: So, how is Barack Obama a socialist? As far as I can see, the majority of the billions of dollars he's given, he's given to banks. So if he is a socialist, he's dyslexic......
This a key point in the video because all O'Rielly had to do was list the BILLIONS of dollars that has NOT gone to the banks and it wouldn't have hurt to mention that not only did the BANKS paid their money back, there were many of them forced to take the money in the first place.
States used part of the 787 billion stimulus money to shore up budget shortfalls in order to keep state UNION employees on the payroll.
Hello have you ever heard of GM and Chrysler? Again in order to keep the UNIONS from going under and don't tell me they paid the money back because they got 52 billion plus the health care bill money to save their benefit packages. They paid back 8 billion of the initial 16 billion "loan". What about paying the bond holders back the rest of the money they were owed? What about the salaried employees who were left out of the benefit recoup?
How about 9000 earmarks in the regular spending bill? That didn't all go to banks now did it?
Health care bill--16500 new IRS agents, 159 new agencies.......enough said
There are more things that could be pointed out; as of this moment the attack on Wall Street is in full swing and the last thing I would have said was that if Obama is not a socialist why isn't he doing anything to help create any jobs other than those in the public sector.
Bottom line is that Stewart is attacking the only non AM radio outlet that the Conservative viewpoint has and even then it is quite intermingled with the LIBERAL view as well.
The question is why is he doing this? I think the answer lies in the fact that he has maintained a solid footing with the base of support that he holds. He has also been able to get away with being negative and often time vicious in his comments because like so many other LIBERAL methods it is done under the false guise of something else and in his case it is 'comedy'.
Comedy Central is one of the only LIBERAL left-leaning outlets that isn't on the verge of financial ruin because of their one-sided coverage of the Obama administration...yet.
Stewart has taken it upon himself to be the banner bearer for the left because he still has a modest amount of respect from independents at this point.
If he continues on his one sided rants and he is outed as just another run of the mill LIBERAL who can speak with a smart dialect when he needs to (which is all that he is) then his 15 minutes on the varsity playing field will be up and back to junior high he will go, just like his predecessors who wanted so desperately to be taken seriously about all of the important LIBERAL issues and that just want to help everyone become mediocre.
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