When Mehdi Hasan sat down with Jon Stewart last month, the roles were reversed. This time, the Emmy-winning host of The Daily Show was the one asking the questions — about corporate media, Gaza, Do…
But no one knows what any politician is really like off camera. We do know what Stewart’s record is though, and he actually has fought for at least one political matter in court and before Congress, and successfully. He is at the very least a thinker. You can’t possibly be a good comedian and not be, a legitimate debater, and he can rally a crowd. It is not the same thing as supporting your average Hollywood celebrity, because he isn’t one.
Again, Ashton Kutcher has also done many of these things. I don’t get why we are drawing a line between actor-activists when they’re all just actors and play characters on television.
So far the issue of political capital has been going over everyone’s head here. I would love to stand corrected and see someone like Stewart suddenly reveal he’s been sowing the seeds of power for years in a deliberate manner AND has the actual desire to rally specific power groups in the nation. But it’s VERY late in the game for that kind of surprise. Even Harris had more chips on the table.
This insistence that having the tepid support of moderate liberals who barely watch the news is somehow more valuable than dedicated, ideological activists is why we have Trump leading a literal warband of Orcs without opposition across the country.
But no one knows what any politician is really like off camera. We do know what Stewart’s record is though, and he actually has fought for at least one political matter in court and before Congress, and successfully. He is at the very least a thinker. You can’t possibly be a good comedian and not be, a legitimate debater, and he can rally a crowd. It is not the same thing as supporting your average Hollywood celebrity, because he isn’t one.
Again, Ashton Kutcher has also done many of these things. I don’t get why we are drawing a line between actor-activists when they’re all just actors and play characters on television.
So far the issue of political capital has been going over everyone’s head here. I would love to stand corrected and see someone like Stewart suddenly reveal he’s been sowing the seeds of power for years in a deliberate manner AND has the actual desire to rally specific power groups in the nation. But it’s VERY late in the game for that kind of surprise. Even Harris had more chips on the table.
This insistence that having the tepid support of moderate liberals who barely watch the news is somehow more valuable than dedicated, ideological activists is why we have Trump leading a literal warband of Orcs without opposition across the country.