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February 18th, 2015 1 comment

link Jon Stewart, a force in comedy and news, will leave The Daily Show – LA Times.

If this ‘event’ has any traction with real people outside of the liberal echo chamber, I haven’t seen it.  For a while, there was much moaning about how  a generation had lost a credible news voice.  Really? Losing Jon Stewart as news source is the same as losing Mad magazine as a news source.

All credit to this guy for pushing the shtick for as long as he had, but even Stewart knew he couldn’t keep it up any longer.  Widely lauded as being ‘ironic’, satirical and devastatingly witty by the ‘intelligentsia’, many of his diatribes were sophomoric and naïve.  It’s quite possible that his reach affected not only vapid hipsters but also to people having positions of influence.  Just the other day, a State department spokesman, Marie Harf opined that the ISIS terrorists currently creating havoc may best be neutralized not by bombs and bullets but by providing them with adequate career opportunities.  Not making that up, check it out.  Marie Harf  There is an outside chance that Ms. Harf is working to replace Stewart as host of the Daily Show, because her utterances are comic gold.

While we can’t confirm that Ms. Harf’s opinions were formed by watching Stewart, this kind of naivete is reflected many times over by a wide swath of people so isolated from reality that they live in alternate universes which includes, rainbows, unicorns and of course, organic food.  While people are being roasted alive, beheaded, dismembered among all other sorts of unspeakable things, people like Harf think all they need are job opportunities.   No less than the current White House resident thinks that the battle is all about changing hearts and minds.  You can’t make this up.

While all of this mayhem is going on in the world, the guys on MSNBC still feel that Global Warming is the number one crisis facing the world.  Global Warming. We can begin to understand Stewart’s decision to vacate the show because there is so much more fodder for humor by skewering the left.  And it doesn’t have to be made up.