Jon Stewart to step down from The Daily Show

Not seeing this as offensive at all. He’s making a painful joke about Germans killing Jews, referencing the Holocaust. Maybe it’s offensive as in poor taste, but it’s not remotely antisemitic.

This one may or may not be offensive. It plays into stereotypes about Jewish control of the media, of course–but it doesn’t actually say anything bad about that stereotype. Overall I’d say it’s slightly antisemitic.

This one is a little worse, playing on an (apparent) stereotype of Jewish women (is there some stereotype about Jewish women not giving blowjobs? Learn something new every day). It’s the worst of the bunch.

Frankly, yeah, these give me a little bit of a pause about him. If his mom raised him in a Jewish environment, I’ve got a lot less problem with it–you’re pretty much always allowed to make jokes about a group you belong to. If he didn’t have much connection to Jewish culture, it’s weird and negative.

That’s funny. I definitely would have switched the last two in terms of which is more anti-Semitic. Did that #BeatsByDreidel get any trending action at the time I wonder? Lol.

Noah has written a new twit:

“Often, people who can do, don’t because they’re afraid of what people that can’t do will say about them doing.”

Seriously? That’s your way of dealing with the whole mess, man? “Haters just hate on me because I’m so awesome”?

Not the sharpest of cookies.

Actually I think “Haters Gonna Hate” is a perfectly valid response to the fauxrage.

That’s just avoiding talking about it. fauxrage or not, it’s not going away until it’s dealt with, and petulant tweets like that one aren’t helping him.

I have a feeling this sort of thing is going to die out. Especially since he doesn’t take the chair for a little while, IIRC.

Of course it will die out. Question is, is it going to die with him being labelled a sexist antisemite forever, or not?

It’d be beyond ridiculous if he were.

It’s the label he’s got now. Doing nothing about it will just cement it in the audience’ mind.

If you want to think so. I’d say that most Daily Show fans would consider these attacks on Noah based on ~10 tweets out of close to 9000 to be silly.

For example, Noah’s latest tweet at 5:36PM Eastern (less than 10 minutes ago):

“To reduce my views to a handful of jokes that didn’t land is not a true reflection of my character, nor my evolution as a comedian.”

Has been Retweeted 695 times and Favorited 749 times.

He’ll be fine.

See? Much better damage control than the previous.

Still not addressing the issue directly.

The internet in general and twitter in particular is just an outrage engine at this point. Every day something gets run through the Outrage Mill and comes out the other side to be forgotten when something new comes along.

I’m not so quick to dismiss the power of recreational outrage. Careers that require a strong public image can be ruined with astonishing ease.

I’m shocked. SHOCKED, I say, that a comedian made some jokes in questionable taste.

Wait a second.

Wait. A. Second.

No, I’m not. Big fuckin’ deal.

What issue? That a bunch of ninnies are trying make a mountain out of a molehill? Meh.

He would been asked during any proper pre-job interviews and the CC brass must have liked what they heard. He’s [and I do mean he, although his production team will be involved] undoubtedly already on the phone to people he wants.

Oh I definitely didn’t mean to imply it was harmless. For many it isn’t. It is just a voracious monster and if it wasn’t these tweets, it would have been something else.

Isn’t the appropriate response to people pretending to be outraged to feign contrition? Then you just wait for the inevitable pretend backlash against the pretend outrage, and you’re all good.

Comedy Central’s President on Why Trevor Noah Was Chosen as the Next ‘Daily Show’ Host (Q&A)

Pre-mini brouhaha, obviously.

I don’t know that it’s a molehill. Quite frankly, had this been tweets from, say, a Fox News anchor, TDS would have been the first to make a meal out of it.

However, in this case I’m not interested in whether the ninnies are right. I’m interested in whether the ninnies can sway public opinion against Noah, and what media strategy is he going to follow to avoid that. I don’t think that “ignore it and it will go away” is a realistic strategy in 2015.