Digby's Hullabaloo includes much of Mary Trump's follow-up https://digbysblog.net/2024/02/20/much-better-more-like-this-please/
On Wed, Feb 21, 2024 at 11:02 AM PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > JS should actually pay Tucker Carlson to do stuff every week, because he > is a never-fail foil. They could make him a Monday correspondent for the > show, except instead of having to write and produce segments they just send > him out into the world to be himself. > > Would have been just funny, except the context that made TC relevant and > worth talking about was one of the most heartbreaking, outrageous and > momentous political murders of our time so, hard to laugh too much, when I > was still wiping away the tears from reading pieces about Navalny and his > widow like the one by Julia Iofee at Puck News. > > What I found most of note about Week 2 of the new Stew was how apparently > pissed off he was at criticism of his both siding Trump and Biden, > especially apparently at Mary Trump (who I think is the kind of person > Stewart would like to have as a “Friend of the Show” during the Fall > campaign). His brief response really confirmed for me how much he does not > get it. The criticism is not that he owes it to democracy and Democrats to > only make fun of Trump. > > JS painted himself as the heroic truth teller who had the balls to say out > loud what everyone else knows but is afraid to say (that Biden is old). But > of course that is the opposite of what is going on. For the last year at > least Everyone has been joking and complaining about how old Biden is. > There is nothing new, insightful or courageous in that. Stewart is telling > hack jokes that are the equivalent of how bad airplane food is on the > flight from LA to NY, ir how White people walk like this, but Black people > walk like this, and pretending he is on the cutting edge. > > I don’t think most liberals expect or even want Stewart to give Biden a > pass, just to put in the effort to make jokes that get at Biden’s real > weaknesses or failures, and not designed to normalize and minimize Trump’s > villainy. > > > Sent from Gmail Mobile > > > On Fri, 16 Feb 2024 at 6:20 PM PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Right, and that (lazy and obvious) is the real damming criticism for a >> comic. Regardless of the political implications, his act has been hack - >> nothing more than we might expect from the opening act on a week night at a >> suburban comedy club. I think we have a right to expect more from him. >> >> Sent from Gmail Mobile >> >> >> On Fri, 16 Feb 2024 at 1:31 PM Dave Sikula <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I watched the rest of the week because I like Klepper, but the other >>> correspondents leave me cold. >>> >>> I suppose Stewart will hold onto his following, but the more I've seen >>> him since he left the show the first time, the more I've disliked him. I >>> don't think he's setting himself up for being harsher on Trump, though; >>> for, what, a decade?, he's been too much "a pox on both your houses" for my >>> tastes. I'm not saying that either the Dems or Biden haven't earned >>> criticism, but what he does in that regard is lazy and obvious. >>> >>> --Dave Sikula >>> >>> On Friday, February 16, 2024 at 10:20:04 AM PST, M-D November < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> >>> Fun fact - it was only about 2 years ago that I finally realized that >>> the "I want my MTV" riff from Dire Straits' "Money For Nothing" is the same >>> riff as The Police's "Don't Stand So Close to Me". I'm not sure how I >>> managed to miss that for several DECADES, but there you are. >>> >>> I thought Jon's return succeeded where it needed to; yes, he leaned into >>> "both choices are horrible" during act 1, but he quickly called himself out >>> re: the "ravages of age"; the BFNTP got in some good shots at Stewart >>> (particularly Dulce Sloan and Jordan Klepper) during act 2, so you get the >>> feeling they were turning into the skid re: some of the criticism leveled >>> at Stewart's return. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "TVorNotTV" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/29563849.2893504.1708119085018%40mail.yahoo.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/29563849.2893504.1708119085018%40mail.yahoo.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkYLLrF6tkcPwspyPxt7-q1pPBe575bdFWWX9eenqKpV5Ew%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkYLLrF6tkcPwspyPxt7-q1pPBe575bdFWWX9eenqKpV5Ew%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. 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