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[Darkhawk32]

I forgot that you can't even mildly criticize Jon Stewart in DU.

[patricia92243]

1. This is a joke - right??? n/t

[handmade34]

2. just thinking

a few minutes ago about "The Rally To Restore Sanity"... it really is time to restore some civility; time to act, noty just give it lip service

[Darkhawk32]

3. I agree, it is time...

That message is just fine, but his equating the two sides was just plain silly.

[Teaser]

4. an incoherent post

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[Darkhawk32]

5. Sorry you didn't understand my point.

[JoePhilly]

6. Don't retreat, reload!!!

[niyad]

8. there was no point, no link to anything you think he needs to rethink.

WHAT, EXACTLY does he need to rethink?

[dsc]

18. actually his post was coherent

and stated exactly what Stewart needed to rethink. Stewart, at his rally with Cobert, famously said that the left and the right were equally extreme. The OP wonders if Stewart still thinks that after what happened yesterday.

[frazzled]

7. I respectfully disagree

Even Al Sharpton made the point yesterday: we all need to consider our complicity in this and take time today to think about how we contribute to the toxic political environment. Ratcheting up rhetoric and hyperbole in any way is contributing to the general climate. To me, it's like a noisy restaurant: one table starts being obnoxious and loud, so the nearby tables have to start talking louder. Then all of a sudden the rest of the tables start yelling even louder, and pretty soon the place is pandemonium.

So I think Stewart's general complaint stands. I stopped watching Keith Olbermann a year or so ago, although I agree with him politically, because of his dramatic, hyperbolic style, and his monomaniacal daily focus on right-wing nuts. He could be doing something more constructive: talking policy say, and marginalizing stupid people by simply not giving them the time of day. "Worst Person In the World" is in itself an overly dramatic, hyperbolic, and contentious title and it ratchets up the volume. When he shouts, the other side shouts back louder.

It is true that left politicians and commentators are not the ones advocating violence. But that is not the point. We all need to do our part in bringing back what Jon Stewart rightly calls "sanity."

[Darkhawk32]

9. My problem is...

To make his point, he equated people like Keith Olbermann and Ed Schultz to people like Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin.

Loud is one thing and it may be obnoxious, but it isn't race-baiting, hate-baiting and gun violence advocating.

[goddess40]

17. Need some hyperbole

to get people to watch. I stand by Keith and his method of communication. Also, Keith is many intellectual levels above Glenn, Rush, etc...

[undeterred]

10. Steaming load of crap or irony?

[wakemewhenitsover]

11. I understand your point

Does John Stewart really believe that the left wing is just as bad as the right wing when it comes to vitriolic rhetoric?

[NoPasaran]

12. Epic Fail or Epicest Fail?

[Dogmudgeon]

13. I guess this is supposed to be withering sarcasm

It seems to be turning into a national sport -- for a thin-skinned eation.

--d!

[Darkhawk32]

14. I believe this false equivolence (sp?) is actually contributing TO the problem...

[RegieRocker]

15. Show a quote of something he said that equates

to what the right has quoted in regards to shooting, hanged, etc.

[Darkhawk32]

16. I'm more referring to his rally...

[tekisui]

19. What violent rhetoric was at his rally?

[Darkhawk32]

Nevermind. Wasn't talking about any violent rhetoric. Sigh.

[lukasahero]

20. You can criticize anyone you want -

just don't expect everyone to agree with you.

[Darkhawk32]

21. I don't.

[lukasahero]

22. Then put your post back up and take your lumps eom

[Darkhawk32]

24. Left-wing violent rhetoric!!! /sarcasm

LOL

[NNN0LHI]

23. Jon Stewart is an asshole

If someone can't take the criticism of him they are assholes too.

There, hows that?

See, some of us aren't afraid to criticize him.

Don