How Jon Stewart Turned Lies into Comedy...

Thanks, andros. Your contributions are always appreciated.

I’m “troubled” because it’s nigh-impossible to have a discussion with someone who is constantly questioning your sincerity. I suppose that might just be a signal that any chance at a reasonable discussion is gone. That’s how I’ll try to take it going forward.

On this MB, I call it as I see it.

Probably a good idea. Everyone should do what works for them.

Like “habitually conversing in poor faith and being an asshole” works for Phipps.

Such hostility. Hey, life can be tough, but you’ve got to deal with it.

Do you have a therapist that you talk to?

Stewart makes me laugh because he’s funny.

This guy makes me laugh because he’s pathetic.

Is that still around? I thought somebody had stolen the guy’s rubber-stamp set or something…

You are my new hero.

So why did the network pay him $25 million a year? I admit that I have no idea what the ratings actually were, but really large corporations aren’t in the habit of paying really enormous salaries to people simply because their “liberal media” friends are fans.

Dude, you’re the one who seems to need a therapist. Andy is repeating basic psychological guides on how to interact with other people. He’s spelling out exactly what is wrong with the way you interact with him, what makes it totally irrational. And you fall back to platitudes that show a lack of any actual knowledge.

It’s not as if Andy says anything that anyone else on this board doesn’t say. But, for some reason, you have a hardon for him. You have this bully mentality where you enjoy pretending like he’s a horrible person, assuming the worst of anything he says.

The one guy on this board who actually acts like a rational human being when discussing these things, and you accuse him of shitty stuff. I don’t know why you have such a fixation with him, or why you continue to post on this board. My only guess is that you like to stir up shit.

Andros is responding exactly the way any normal human being would to the shit you say. You know this, as multiple posters have said the exact same type of thing to you.

But you live in a la-la land where you are right and everyone else is wrong. That is why you need to see a therapist.

Phipps is a parody of himself. It’s okay to laugh.

Ratings don’t mean Jack Shit anymore. Who actually watches TV shows at the time they are scheduled, or even on a television? I cut the cable years ago, and I get the Daily Show from iTunes. How do people like me show up in your silly ratings?

There’s nothing factual to address here, and in general I’m loath to discuss issues with you due to your limitations. But what does interest me is this:

You are probably the single biggest pathetic whiner on this board, with a remarkably high level of posts complaining about how your feelings were hurt because of mean things people said to you. And yet, you manage to combine this with being a monumentally sanctimonious prick in your even more frequent criticisms of others. How does this reconcile?

Having seen you in action here and there I can recognize this theme as the staple of your initial braggadocio. The whimpering comes later.

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Ah. Got it. Just another bully, then.

I think that unfairly exaggerates his importance.

Oh, so nobody’s watching but EVERYBODY’S watching.

Gotcha.

Odd thing about this is that I seem to be of unusual importance to you personally.

Maybe you and andros should form a support group.