From: ShunkW <shunkw@sbcglobal.net>
Date: Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 11:57 PM
Subject: Is it Bizarro day at Breitbart? They're calling Jon Stewart a hero now
To: ShunkW <shunkw@sbcglobal.net>
Today, Jon Stewart — Free Speech Warrior — Is My Hero
In the past year, we've had plenty of opportunities (and reasons) to criticize Jon Stewart's routine attacks on conservatives, talk radio, Fox News and other opponents of reflexive liberalism.
But not today.
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Put in the difficult position to address his network's controversial decision to censor a "South Park" episode that mocked Islamic extremists, he deftly put the network's decision in context, back-handedly criticized it but summed it up with an adroit, "But hey, they write the checks."
Then Jon Stewart performs a spectacular pivot reminiscent of Wes Unseld in his prime and focuses his rage exactly where it should be: on the animals who used their unhinged interpretation of Islam to threaten the lives of Stewart's colleagues, Trey Parker and Matt Stone. He goes on to show highlights of how The Daily Show has targeted all religions from the Amish to the Jews, from Methodists to Wiccans.
Backed by a gospel choir, he sums up this celebration of free speech and true tolerance with a musical message "to anyone threatening death in the name of religion or politics" with the pithy and resonant lyrics: "Go F*ck Yourself!"
Today, Jon Stewart is my hero. He should be a hero to every weak-kneed, lily-livered, cowardly member of the American media, from the reporters who meekly submit to arbitrary authority to the jellyfish executives who cower in their Sixth Avenue towers over threats from guys living in some cave or Brooklyn basement.
And he should be yours too.
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