The title speaks for itself. This time it's a 8:31 parody. Though I'm sure Jon could have entire shows on the clown if he chose to do so.
Video: The 11/3 Project | The Daily Show | Comedy Central
I viewed the parody, and saw some clever take-off on Beck's style, but I think you don't have the perspective necessary to put this parody in context.
1. Jon Stewart frequently uses his comic talent to skewer anyone in the culture who defies the left-wing orthodoxy.
His brutal attack on Jim Cramer for daring to criticize the Obama economic plan, and to speak outside the party line was skilled and viscious, but also transparent to those who see the bigger picture.
2. Folks who get their political news and philosophical underpinings from the Daily Show seem not to have much more than a USA Today understanding of the world.
3.You feel he dissected Glenn Beck, but this is only so if you subscribe to the Saul Alinsky Rule 5: "Ridicule is mans most potent weapon. Its hard to counterattack ridicule, and it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage."
4. He did a masterful job of mimicking Beck's style and use of the blackboard, but certainly not any of Beck's thesis.
5. Do you understand that the message is "look how absurd Beck is- and if you listen to, or subscribe to, any of his ideas, we're going to make fun of you, too!" And if you are fearful,or have that herd mentality, you will fall right in step.
6. If you could not see that he was doing what I've outlined above, you must be particularly left-wing, particularly fearful of Beck's ideas, particularly immature, particularly dense- or all of the above.
Now, as a real test of your acumen, here are some of Beck's ideas. Which did Stewart de-bunk? Which can you de-bunk?
1. Anita Dunn, hand picked by the President, announced that Mao is her favorite political philosopher: the killer of 70 million Chinese.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWbX_vsAGd4]YouTube - Mao Cheerleader?[/ame]
2. Van Jones was appointed by President Barack Obama in March 2009, to the newly-created position on the White House Council on Environmental Quality. Van Jones was forced to resign when it came to light that he is an avowed communist.
According to Politifact:
Beck has repeatedly claimed Jones is a communist. For purposes of a fact-check statement, we selected a Sept. 1, 2009, remark Beck made on his radio program that Jones "is an avowed, self-avowed radical revolutionary communist."
There's little question that Jones was an avowed communist
Smear: Van Jones Is An Avowed Communist | Media Matters Action Network
You should view the several youtube videos in which you may listen to Jones himself, and that of Obama advisor and long-time friend, Valerie Jarrett, stating that she has followed Jones' career for years.
"Jarrett is a Senior Advisor and Assistant to the President for Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs for the Obama administration. Prior to that she served as a co-chairperson of the Obama-Biden Transition Project." (wikipedia)
3. Ron Bloom is President Obamas selection as senior counselor for manufacturing policy. The same Ron Bloom can be heard in the following agreeing with the political wisdom of Mao that power comes from the barrel of a gun:
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCvQ8BSUv-g]YouTube - Obama's Czar Ron Bloom Agrees With Mao - address at Investor Conf part3[/ame]
4. Mark Lloyd, selected by President Obama as his FCC diversity czar, is heard in the following praising the Hugo Chavez revolution:
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9ffAP5ixhg]YouTube - Obama's Czar Mark Lloyd's FCC 'Diversity' Chief - His Take on Free Speech[/ame]
5. Obama selected regulatory czar Cass Sunstein has suggested that animals have the right to lawyers, and advocated that animals have the right to sue humans in court:
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je8bU9D51Ug]YouTube - Cass Sunstein Another Nut In The White House[/ame]
6. Obama choice for Science Czar John Holdren has endorsed compulsory sterilization,
Adding a sterilant to drinking water or staple foods is a suggestion that seems to horrify people more than most proposals for involuntary fertility control.
Obama's science czar suggested compulsory abortion, sterilization | Washington Examiner
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZCoXyQ-vks]YouTube - The Czars - John Holdren[/ame]
7. Carol Browner, chosen by President Obama as energy czar, has actually been a leader in the Socialist International, which is an umbrella group for the socialist parties of the world, and their website contained the following:
CAROL M. BROWNER
Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency
under President Bill Clinton. Leading the EPA from 1993 to 2001, she
was the longest serving
Administrator in the agency s history.
Browner c u r r e n t l y s e r v e s o n t h e b o a r d o f s e v e r a l n o n profit
organisations, including as chair of the National Audubon Society, one
of the nations oldest environmental organisations, and as a member of
the Board of the Directors of the Center for American Progress, the
Alliance for Climate Protection and the League of Conservation Voters.
http://www.capitalresearch.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/browner_si.pdf
I'm not asking whether or not you agree with the far left leanings represented by the above, as I'm sure you do...just asking you to show where Stewart took aim at any.