I hope you’ve seen or at least read about Jon Stewart’s laying intoCrossfire on their own ground, apparently deeply offending poor Tucker Carlson. But the media, who have been practically worshipful of The Daily Show lately, won’t let him get away with attacking one of their own…
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But in case you weren’t sure that Cox’s predicted backlash was upon us as of this weekend, we woke up this morning to a damning piece in the new issue of New York magazine. “The notion of Stewart as the Joker Who Speaks Truth to Power has now gotten away from the joker himself. His cult success on Comedy Central has become bloated and excessively esteemed,” wrote Ken Tucker, going on to argue that Stewart’s postmortem rehash of the “Crossfire” fight on his own show was just “nyah-nyah, can’t catch-me baiting.” Tucker writes that Stewart “tries so hard to be the anti-anchorman that he ends up being a disdainfully mediocre one, tossing verbal Twinkies and Ho Hos at everyone from John Kerry to Ralph Reed, ending up with sugary, jittery segments.” Tucker also writes that Stewart “has developed this bad habit of wanting it both ways: Hey, I just tell jokes! and You can’t handle the truth!”
The wrath of the media should not be discounted. Remember what happened to Howard Dean after he came out for breaking up the big media monopolies…