“Daily Show” host Jon Stewart sounded off on the media’s fixed “fascist” assaults in the direction of President Donald Trump, saying they’ve “numbed” the nation because of this.
In an off-air clip shared by the present on X, Stewart was requested by an viewers member about what he would say to critics who accused him of being “light on the fascist message recently.”
“Oh, well, I’d tell my critics- shut up! You’re a fascist!” Stewart jokingly responded.
Stewart instructed the viewers he appreciated the query and understood the “desire” of calling Trump a “fascist,” however went on to clarify why he himself has kept away from utilizing such rhetoric.
“Daily Show” host Jon Stewart stated the media cried wolf with its fixed “fascist” assaults on President Trump. (Picture by Scott Kowalchyk/CBS by way of Getty Photographs)
“I’m very big on- and I know it’s annoying, but specificity and nuance,” Stewart stated. “And I think if you cry ‘fascism’ at every administrative overreach, even the ones that are constitutionally OK, you will find yourself out of fascism bullets when the time really comes.”
“I think what the media has done over the past ten years is cry wolf, to the point where they numbed everybody,” he continued. “It was an anesthetic, and it got to where- what was the thing they litigated throughout this campaign? ‘He’s a fascist, he’s a terrible person, democracy is on the ballot.’ Guess what lost at the [ballot box]? If you told us democracy was on the ballot, democracy got its ass kicked by a majority vote.”
“So I am very cautious about when to know, like, yeah- hopefully I won’t do it the night after Kristallnacht… but it’s like when you put your dog down. It’s one of those things, like, you’re not quite sure, but I do understand how annoying that is,” Stewart added.
President Trump was broadly labeled a “threat to democracy” by the media in the course of the election. (REUTERS/Leah Millis)
Stewart is not the one one to query the left’s use of the “fascist” label for Trump. “Breakfast Club” co-host Charlamagne Tha God referred to as out Democrats for his or her sudden change of coronary heart after Trump received the presidential election.
“Don’t y’all find it strange that now that he’s won, they’re not calling him a threat to democracy? They’re not calling him a fascist. I mean, damn, on Monday, they was just calling him that,” Charlamagne stated in November.
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Stewart instructed his viewers he’s “very cautious” on the subject of utilizing the “fascism” label in the direction of Trump like others within the media. (Comedy Central)
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“I would think that, you know, if you really believe that, then somebody’s speech would be about how America effed up and how things are about to be really bad. It just makes you wonder how much of it did they really believe, or how much of it was just politics. That’s all,” he added.
