Moron of the Month - February 2015

I've sampled the Daily Show enough to know that I don't like it.  It's about as substantive as if your stand-up comedy cousin was reading and paraphrasing yesterday's USA Today to you.  If you think there's any good information or humor coming out of that venue, you're an idiot.

A few weeks back, Jon Stewart, or as his real name Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz, announced that he was living the Daily Show last this year after 16 or so years.   Frankly, I barely blinked an eye.  But the press went crazy.

It was as if Johnny Carson was leaving the Tonight Show all over again.  Oh, my God, what will become of our children?  How will we survive without Jon's daily skewering of current events and exposing politicians as the blowhards they are?

Oh, don't get me wrong.  99.9% of all elected officials are blowhards, whether I knew that from Leibowitz or not.  But, all the printed stories gave the impression that Jon was providing us all with an invaluable service every day.   And, more importantly, he was teaching the so-called millenials (AKA the younger demographics) about what was happening in the news.

Wrong.

If, indeed, our youngsters were getting an education from Stewart, it was far from unbiased.  Clearly, Leibowitz operates from the left.   There is no secret about that.  I mean, how many times has the President been found yakking it up with the host on television?  You don't think Obama would appear on this program if he thought it wasn't all going to be a cake walk for him?

So, just what kind of service has Jon Stuart Leibowitz been providing for us all?  And subjecting our children, who adore him, to just one side of the story and the aisle.  I'm not saying either one is right or wrong.   As a matter of fact, I think both political sides in this country are a complete disaster.  But you don't get that picture from the Daily Show.   Nor did you get it from the awful Colbert Report and that host is going to make our worlds even worse when he replaces David Letterman in a while.

Back in the day, television talk show hosts were fairly apolitical.  If they leaned one way or the other, you didn't know it.  They entertained all sides of an issues when they invited elected leaders onto their shows.   That's the way it should be.

It is totally a cheat to do what Jon Stuart Leibowitz has been doing all these years. Painting one side of the canvas and pretending to be all things for all people.  And, let's face it, his credentials are certainly not what I would call astute or Ivy League.   He's just a dumb comic who got lucky.  Of course, if he figured out how to do this and gain a lucrative business model, he's hardly a moron.

Nope, the real dopes this month are the ones who thought they were getting a balanced education by watching the Daily Show.   I suppose the youth of 1933 Germany thought the same thing.

Good riddance, Jon whatever the hell your name is.

Dinner last night:  Asian chopped salad.