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BRTD
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Political Matrix E: -6.50, S: -6.67
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« Reply #1 on: December 22, 2014, 12:59:53 AM » |
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The Daily Show often attacks Democrats on non-partisan type issues like corruption, which I don't have a problem with (the bit Stewart did about the indictment of Leland Yee on gun trafficking was hilarious, especially the highlighting of that Yee quote the FBI caught on a wiretap.) But they often go beyond that, such as in 2012 when Stewart was really tough toward Harry Reid for things like the "A Bain investor told me Mitt Romney didn't pay any income taxes for the last 10 years". Now it's hard to get too upset when Stewart was bashing Romney ten times as much, but there are times when it feels as if the Daily Show writers think they have some sort of quota to hit Democrats from time to time even if not deserved or nothing compared to Republican antics.
Also most of The Daily Show's coverage of Occupy Wall Street was pretty bad. I bet if John Oliver's Last Week Tonight was around then Oliver's piece would probably be like "Yeah look at these OWS folks, a lot of them are pretty silly. But let's listen to their points" and then touch on the issues of income inequality and corporate greed that were fueling the movement and point out those are WAY bigger issues. TDS was mostly "haha look at these silly hippies...oh but look a their conservative critics too! Yeah admittedly those people are a lot worse", which strikes me as similar to if someone right after WWII did some comparison of the Dachau Massacre and the whole Nazi concentration camps with equal focus but then said something like "But yeah, of course what the Nazis did was a lot worse."
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