Maybe Stewart called up his Jew buddies at CNN and gave the word to fire him. It’s a white liberal establishment conspiracy.
I sent some Euryale ferox water lilies to a guy in Iceland. He grew them in a pool heated by volcanic action. Water iris, with leaves above the water, would freeze. 
Smiling bandit, are you going to provide us with some examples of Stewart’s unfairness or does it simple boil down to him not having your point of view?
If Sanchez was talking exclusively about class, why did he mention the fact that he is Latino, bring up an anecdote about a CNN executive comparing him to another Hispanic non-anchor reporter while suggesting that Sanchez was more like that reporter than a “traditional” anchor, and also state that most news anchors are white?
And once again, could you demonstrate some evidence to support your opinion (either that Stewart is bigoted or that he doesnt’ know a damn thing about the world) rather than simply give out a second helping of it?
Stewart is an asshole. He is funny, and he goes for people I don’t like, but he’s an asshole.
I dare you to prove it.
ETA: Also,
Seriously? Seriously? The Jews run the media?
Seriously? You’re going to defend age-old bigotry?
Well if they don’t, then why did Sanchez get fired, huh?
One time, Jon Stewart made couple of points how in US every politician, a Democrat or a Republican holds pretty much the same opinion on the situation flare up when over 300 Palestinians were killed and scores wounded and displaced. He actually showed the footage of politician’s making one-sided statements where essentially it all boiled down to “Israelis have a right to defend themselves”. So, the average viewer including the show audience perceives this as Mr. Stewart – in a tradition that he aspires to convey as balanced and non-partisan – pointing to an issue and trying to look for answers. And the answer in that episode comes from non other than David “I don’t fact check my guests” Gregory of “Meet the Press”. His succinct answer is quite simple - Israel is “more popular” than Hamas so therefore it does not matter that Israel is committing war crimes and crimes against humanity, and that scores of Palestinian civilians are being killed. As per Gregory one side is just more popular so any shit said side does, it is viewed in more favorable light than the other. Of course, this utter BS goes on totally unchallenged by Stewart and that’s where it ends as the conversation veers off to some other topics.
And there are at least two reasonable challenges to a such a blatant and idiotic “explanation”.
First, Stewart could have pointed out that what makes one side “popular” is actions and results that one side does so if Israel kills so much more civilians and displaces even more and continues with illegal settlements and whatnot, eventually, that side should become unpopular or at least, its popularity should decline.
And secondly, isn’t the question of bias and popularity an egg and a chicken question - i.e. is the one-sided treatment of the conflict by American politicians and media result of Israel’s greater popularity or, is in fact, Israel’s greater popularity direct result of one-sided treatment of the conflict by the American politicians and media.
But, yeah, he’s funny… :rolleyes:
If Stewart had ever once mocked Sanchez for being Hispanic, he’d have gotten his ass kicked just as hard as Sanchez’s did. There’s a lot of people who don’t like him who would gladly jump on an opening like that.
- Stewart constantly criticizes Obama. If you actually watch the show, you should know that.
- Stewart has never said being Jewish makes him a victim or tried to claim “minority” staus, so when you accuse him of “grasping at straws,” you’ll have to explain what the hell you’re talking about. He was not even part of the conversation about his own Jewishness that got Sanchez fired. That happened on a radio show that Stewart had nothing to do with.
Can you provide a cite that this is necessarily the case?
What particular point are you trying to make here, especially since the offending view you’re describing apparently belonged to David Gregory and not Stewart? Are you trying to say, in keeping with the salient points of this thread, that Stewart is bigoted against Israel?
So I’ll never again hear Sanchez’s pronunciation of “excetera,” or his occasional pronunciation of his own name as “Shanchez” (or is that Cuban?).
And oh yeah . . . the impossibility of Icelandic volcanoes.
Complete bullshit. One of Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counteract ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage.”
Well, I guess I’ll just defer to someone I’ve never heard of, then. :dubious:
Hamas is less “popular” than Fatah. No?
Point is that he let Gregory’s point stay unchallenged or subject to his usual “wit” as Gregory’s “explanation” is utterly moronic BS. Absence of a challenge or satire, in his show, means agreement with what was said.
However, if you also think that one-sided treatment is due to Israel’s popularity then point is lost.
Not true. Comedy that doesn’t ring true just isn’t funny. Remember that Fox once tried to make a conservative comedy show.
The irony here, or one of them, is that Rick Sanchez is the whitest Latino in history. He looks like a Henry Smith. In my mind he’s a big dumb white guy.
And it’s bizarre for him to be claiming institutional racism when he has his own daily, 2 hour long show on CNN. He strikes me as a guy who’s insecure about his relative lack of intelligence and competence, and to compensate has overreacted to the sort of criticism that anyone in his position should expect. That’s pure speculation, of course.
This. If you’re willing to engage him in a serious manner, he’ll hear you out. For example he regularly has Bill O’Reilly on his show (in fact he had him on this week). Yeah, he still makes fun of the guy and calls him out on his BS quite often. And whenever they talk, they’ll still much more often than not agree to disagree. But because Bill O is one of the few Fox News personalities who has the balls to appear on his show and explain himself in a reasonable manner (or at least reasonable for O’Reilly), Stewart treats him with respect whenever he comes on.