{"id":60232,"date":"2024-02-20T12:50:29","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T20:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=60232"},"modified":"2024-02-20T12:50:29","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T20:50:29","slug":"jon-stewart-mercilessly-shreds-tucker-carlsons-vile-veneration-of-vladimir-putin-and-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=60232","title":{"rendered":"Jon Stewart Mercilessly Shreds Tucker Carlson’s Vile Veneration of Vladimir Putin and Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"

The return of Jon Stewart to “The Daily Show”<\/em> is proving to be a stark reminder of just how much the world of media satire has been missing for the past nine years. His ability to wrap fact-filled commentaries in a humorous package with biting deliveries is unparalleled in contemporary comedy.<\/p>\n

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Monday night’s episode was a perfect example of this as Stewart refocused his attention an old and pitiful adversary, Tucker Carlson. Stewart frequently creamed Carlson’s ivory tower white nationalism when he was a Fox News Trump-fluffer. And even before that, when Carlson co-hosted CNN’s Crossfire. On Monday Stewart referenced an infamous exchange from that era saying that “I know I\u2019ve said this before, but you\u2019re such a dick.”<\/em><\/p>\n

WATCH THE ORIGINAL: Fox News Hack Tucker Carlson Lamely Tries to Insult Jon Stewart, Gets Another Brutal Beat Down<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Stewart was not swayed by Carlson’s worshipful propaganda (video below)<\/em>. He reviewed Carlson’s lapdog interview of his hero, Vladimir Putin, describing his enrapt facial expression throughout as “like you\u2019re constipated while jerking off to a Sears catalog.”<\/em> Carlson spent most of his two hour audience with Putin gazing adoringly at him as he disseminated flagrantly self-serving disinformation and outright lies. None of which were challenged by Carlson.<\/p>\n

SEE THIS: Tucker Carlson Snuggles Up to His Master, Vladimir Putin, in a Humiliating Parade of Propaganda<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Stewart brutally took apart Carlson’s slobbering adoration of Russia’s subway stations and grocery stores, including his feigned surprise that the value of groceries there had \u201cradicalized\u201d<\/em> him against U.S. leaders, whom he apparently believes set the prices for groceries. Stewart mocked Carlson saying…<\/p>\n

“And it will radicalize you! Unless you understand basic economics. See, $104.00 for groceries sounds like a great bargain unless you realize Russians earn less than $200.00 a week. But that\u2019s the kind of context that a \u2014 what did you call yourself earlier? \u2014 a “journalist” would have provided.<\/p>\n

“But here\u2019s the reality: You f*cking know all this. Because you aren\u2019t as dumb as your face would have us believe. Perhaps if your handlers had allowed, you would have seen there was a hidden fee to your cheap groceries and orderly streets. Ask Alexei Navalny or any of his supporters.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Whereupon Stewart played a video of Navalny mourners being harassed and arrested by Russian police, observing that “The difference between our urinal-caked, chaotic subways, and your candelabra, beautiful subways, is the literal price of freedom.”<\/em> Stewart concluded by noting that to today’s right-wing Trump MAGA cult, Putin is an ally and a friend, saying “I mean liberty is nice, but have you seen Russia\u2019s shopping carts?”<\/em><\/p>\n

Carlson appears to be determined to prove that he is as much a Russian asset as Donald Trump. But it isn’t because of any principles that he adheres to. It’s out of the desperation that comes from being a washed up pseudo-pundit whose puerile perspectives have gotten him fired from CNN, PBS, MSNBC, and even Fox News.<\/p>\n

So like the rest of the MAGA Republicans scrambling to avoid the inevitable anguish of irrelevancy, he’s clinging to Trump and the futile hope that such pathetic toadyism will save him. Yeah, that’ll work. Just keep hanging on and maybe you can share an apartment in Moscow with him. Or a prison cell.<\/p>\n

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