# Jon Stewart's most depressing shows

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [June 18, 2010, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-stewarts-most-depressing-shows/543639 "2010-06-18T02:56:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2010, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-stewarts-most-depressing-shows/543639/41 "2010-06-18T23:51:05Z")

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You guys are forgetting that this is a known phenomenon with that type of editing where it is possible to make anybody seem hypocritical by taking their words out of context, in much the same way any movie review can seem positive by taking every other word out of a sentence or skipping negative words.

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**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2010, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-stewarts-most-depressing-shows/543639/42 "2010-06-18T23:54:09Z")

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> [@Superhal](#):
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> You guys are forgetting that this is a known phenomenon with that type of editing where it is possible to make anybody seem hypocritical by taking their words out of context, in much the same way any movie review can seem positive by taking every other word out of a sentence or skipping negative words.

It’s certainly possible to take quotes out of context with editing, but do you think that was done here? The Ford quote sure as hell wasn’t taken out of context.

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**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2010, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-stewarts-most-depressing-shows/543639/43 "2010-06-19T05:05:16Z")

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> [@Baboonanza](#):
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> That’s irrelevant. ‘Foreign oil’ simply refers to the oil required to fill the gap between America’s production and it’s consumption. The ‘Oil deficit’ if you will. Reducing this deficit has many advantages, one of which would be that you could tell the Middle East to get fuck themselves 🙂

“Hey you dirty Middle Easterners! We’re going to pay 30% more for our own oil, so you can sell your cheap oil to China so they can make products cheaper than we can and sell them to the world!”

That’ll show 'em.

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**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2010, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-stewarts-most-depressing-shows/543639/44 "2010-06-19T05:54:37Z")

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> [@Chefguy](#):
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> Not sure where to post this.
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> Secondly, and even worse, was the airing of speech clips from the past _eight presidents_, all of whom promised energy programs to “free us from dependence on foreign oil”. None of them has succeeded in ever making the slightest dent, perhaps because Congress is and has always been firmly in the pockets of the oil industry. It’s all just a sham, and it’s damned depressing.

Yar, I don’t catch him often, but that bit struck me enough that when I saw the title, I opened it just to post that one. Dayum.

BTW, the Ford speech reminded me of what it was to have a president that actually said something, and didn’t just politically correct his way across the screen. And I _like_ Obama, and am very glad he’s the pres right now, but…dayum. That bit was painful.

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