While I found Jon Stewart’s piece funny, it is as ineffective as was his rally in Washington DC. But then we must remember he is a comedian.
The reality is while both the Left and Right have colorful demonstration; the governing principles of their rallies are quite different. Moreover, one is generally provably correct, the Left, while the other provably based on fabrications by entities with motives that ultimately damages the middle class.
Jon Stewart takes offense to the equating of the protestors to the freedom fighters in the Middle East. While he is literally correct, figuratively the damage effected by 30 years of Republican style supply side economics devastated the middle class and the results are becoming evident.
Now the middle class is being asked to shoulder the cleanup as the plutocrats and oligarchs walk away with the spoils.
That Jon Stewart attempts to make these too polarized sides equally negative is a disservice to those in his audience that are Left of center but just as low information seekers as FoxNews listeners. I like Stewart a lot; however he is falling into the realm of a false balance.
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"The Daily Show" returned Monday night to pick up on the Wisconsin union protests against Governor Scott Walker’s controversial cost-cutting plan, leading Jon Stewart to believe that a "bizarro Tea Party" had been born.
Walker said Monday he will not back down from his plan to cut teachers union’s benefits as well as their collective bargaining rights to bring down the state’s $3.6 billion deficit. And while Stewart understands that Walker was elected to cut costs, his method defeats the purpose of having a union:
"That can’t be right. Take away a union’s collective bargaining rights? I believe that makes them just a bunch of people wearing identical T-shirts."
Stewart also had some criticism for the media’s reaction to the protests, particularly the comparison made by many news outlets that Wisconsin is similar to Egypt in its uprising. Stewart disagreed wholeheartedly:
"Is it the same as people in the Middle East overthrowing years of dictatorship?" Stewart asked. "Or is that just the last story you saw on the news?"
Searching for a better analogy, Stewart looked at the media’s varied reactions. MSNBC seemed to romanticize the protesters like Fox News did with the Tea Party, but Fox failed to give the Wisconsin protesters the same praise as they did with the Tea Partiers. Stewart finally realized: the Wisconsin protesters are an alternate-universe Tea Party, right down to the "three cornered hats":
"Do you see what’s happening here?! The Wisconsin union protest is the bizarro Tea Party! Yes! You’ve all seen that episode of ‘Super Man’."
Jon Stewart: ‘Wisconsin Union Protest Is The Bizarro Tea Party’ (VIDEO)