Reuters: Comedy Central Darling Jon Stewart Backs Kerry

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Comedy Central Darling Jon Stewart Backs Kerry


NEW YORK (Reuters) - Comedian Jon Stewart, whose nightly cable television show is popular with the young voters considered key in the upcoming presidential election, said on Thursday he prefers Democrat John Kerry over Republican President Bush.
"It looks like Kerry," said Stewart, host of "The Daily Show," a satirical late-night review of politics on Viacom Inc.-owned cable channel Comedy Central. "I would be stunned if something happened to change my mind."
He called the U.S.-led war in Iraq a "mistake" and said he failed to understand the "Bush doctrine" of preemptive strikes against perceived security threats.
"If one guy drove me into a ditch and said, 'Don't worry, I know how to get us out of this,' I'd give the keys to a 7-year-old," Stewart said during a media event sponsored by Syracuse University's Newhouse School.
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Stewart also took aim at the mainstream U.S. media -- which he mocks regularly -- and said it fails to take politicians or big business to task.
"The press has bravely and nobly eroded the public trust," he said. "What I'm advocating is the media come back and work for us again. ... The bias of the media is not liberal. It's lazy and sensationalist."
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http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=peopleNews&storyID=6506962

[PROGRESSIVE1]

1. Great to hear!

If Dennis Miller can back Bushista and Jay Leno can whore for Arnie then Jon S. can back Kerry!

:D

:dem:

[NVMojo]

2. This is good and he is so damn right

about the media. Can barely bring myself to pick up a newspaper anymore.

[TaleWgnDg]

3. gosh. who woudda thunk?

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[acmavm]

4. Jon Stewart is brilliant. He's found that comedy, his particular brand of

biting comedy, is a devastating way to attack the bush* agenda and its thug enforcers. He has made people actually think through biting satire and comedy. Especially young people who may have been turned off by anything else. This guy is a national treasure.

[madmax]

5. He's popular with oldies but goodies, too.

My friends and I are in our late 40's and early 50's and we love Jon Stewart. He's the 'real' news. ;P

[Benhurst]

6. I'm shocked. Shocked.

:party:

[friesianrider]

7. Jon Stewart, I tip my hat to you my friend!!!

Brilliant, just brilliant!

[AgadorSparticus]

8. John Stewart is an American Hero. Just when I didn't think I could

love him more, he steps up and leaves me in awe.