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New York money man!!1!11!
You mean the receptionist doesn’t have to put napkins under him?
Because I’m pretty sure he does drip like a tooth-picked chunk of overripe peeled comice pear.
You mean he’s not Anglo? I’ll be damned.
Craig Kilborn was a much better host of the show. Since he left it has sailed so far left it is pretty much unwatchable unless you have a registered screen name on Daily Kos.
BTW what are the odds he would be telling joke after joke about Obama railing against bonuses for AIG when he just signed a law keeping them intact if the party identifications were changed?
It’s not that he’s not who we thought he was. It’s that he’s not who he has pretended to be. We all carry images of ourselves that do not match up with reality, so that would normally be no big sin, if he wasn’t on television every week loudly proclaiming his role as genius-warrior-saint of the people. And even that wouldn’t be so bad if he hadn’t just spent a week hammering a man for being just like… his older brother.
Drawing this connection kind of seems like the typical pseudo-gotcha that the left employs incessantly. Maybe I’m missing something but giving Stewart-Liebowitz shit for this rings hollow to me in the same way that most of what comes from the left does.
Abe – see #6…BECAUSE OF THE H______.
Jon ashamed of his family name?
I dunno, I kinda always thought he was a tool of the Democrats. Has anything changed other than his name?
Wehe, who was not thought.
He changed his name because Liebowitz sounded “too Hollywood.”
And Liebowitz also sounded “too New York Money Man.”
Some one should ask him if he had invested with Madoff. Y’know, the ultimate “New York Money Man.” Given Stewart’s gassy schtick and his hyperventilation with Jim Cramer (not a Jew, I don’t think), I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s lost a little dough.
Actually exactly who we thought he was.
You know, it doesn’t bother me that Stewart has a lot of money, works for a huge corporation and has a brother who works on Wall Street. I think it’s his right to say whatever he thinks, fine.
What bothers me is that the only reason Cramer even came up is because he said he thought Obama was using the economy to push his social agenda and gently suggested that hey, maybe this wasn’t the right time. Cramer wasn’t alone, Warren Buffet said the same thing, but Warren Buffet has enough money to tell Stewart to go piss up a rope. Neither of them said anything like what I would have said had I been put in front of a camera, and Cramer didn’t rip off Stewart’s head and shit in his hat, which is what he really could have done. Seeing as, and I know Stweart knows this, Cramer actually puts his money where his mouth is. And if Cramer making a bad call “makes Stewart feel angry” because “this is important” how does Stewart think his shtick on, let’s see, Religion, the War, Social Issues, Republicans, Foreign Policy, Gun Control, and the roughly one half of American voters who didn’t or wouldn’t vote for the one person in the world who is unworthy of a patented, open-mouthed, double-take smirk plays with people like me? I happen to think that that stuff is important, and he’s wrong, all of the fucking time.
But hey, he’s got a TV show. And you know what, if Team Obama would rather have its apostates and heretics humiliate themselves on TV instead of committing public suicide, more power to them.
But what happened to Cramer was some scary shit, Jeff. Which is all the more reason you need to keep pissing people off left, right and center.
Since happyfeet is apparently not in front of his computer at the moment, I’ll just step in here and query whether Brother-of-Stuart-Nee-Leibowitz is also fruity.
About once a day, I’m frustrated that I didn’t become some kind of scientist.
Today, I want to see plethysmograph readings on Daily Show fans when they hear this. Because I have a theory.
But no. All I can do is clearly express my frustration. Nice life.
He was telling a (stolen) joke, but actually, Jon Leibowitz was a famous (evil) Hollywood guy when Stewart came up, and Hollywood types traditionally don’t (and sometimes contractually can’t) share names.
However, he turned Stewart many, many long years before going Hollywood. So it’s…problematic. Possibly.
Here’s the thing. I can’t use my name for work, either, because an old guy got dibs on it. So I picked a different, even more Jewish-sounding one (my grandmother’s, because she was cool). There’s thousands of them to choose from.
“Stewart” is somebody else.
His first line choice of profession, domestic diva, just didn’t work out I guess.
SarahW,
Nigella Lawson was just better than he was, that’s all.
Just curious psycho, lung, limb or genital? Or is the locus indifferent?
oh. What I always think of is the Edsel. Me if I went to Hollywood to become a famous “entertainer” I would change my name first too. You never wanna put your name on a failure if you can help it, and the odds are what the odds are. Porno stars learned this long long ago. I mean sure Jared Padalecki didn’t change his name but before you start your Hollywood career you damn well better understand that YOU ARE NOT JARED PADALECKI.
“Stewart†is somebody else.
Right, the Duke of Albany. If you had to be a Stuart, why not Charles Edward “call me Betty” Stuart?
and this is really damning of Jon Stewart because….
Mainly because his brother gives him blowjobs, AJB.
…OF THE HYPOCRISY!
It feels like we are entering the Golden Age of Hypocrisy.
They should do a commemorative plate or something…
CHANGE THAT CHANGES YOUR CHANGE INTO CHUMP CHANGE!
I don’t much care about the name change. I just don’t like the fact he hasn’t disclosed what his brother does — so that Cramer could have asked him to publicly demonize his brother as an America-hating greed monster eating all the little people, the kind Stewart orders to bring him coffee and fresh socks for each segment.
He’d say it’s just a distraction…
I still say, to use his own construct; I get that you try to make poitics funny, Jon…It’s not effin’ funny!…
And neither is he…
Charles Edward “call me Betty†Stuart?
Or “Queen James” Stuart, first monarch of Great Britain?
and this is really damning of Jon Stewart because….
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. No, really.
What about Jon Fitzgerald Stewart.
It’s damning because screwing the economy for a political agenda is only okay for Barry Hussein Obama. So Cramer calls it, Jon Stewart distracts and attacks, and Jim Cramer rolls over. It’s all like a Shakespearean plot with actors and weird stage maneuvers. (McCain or Bush would be be hung on a stake, complete with the Daily Show’s patented smirk.)
In light of this information, “Fucking Liar” seems to remain an apt description of Lil’ John. “Professional Deceiver” sounds more polite, but it just don’t roll off as well.
Don’t give me thing about Liebowitz threads, This possibly one of the most philosemitic
blogs out there. Stewart didn’t disclose this connection, because he wanted to pretend to be one of the folks, he’s not most likely he’s one of these rich folk who had money with Lehman, or Bear Stearns, etc
I heard some family had money with Madoff. So they had a little fun with the Gaza war
where the Israelis were fighting for their lives, has he made a comment about a premier
Wasp antisemite like Freeman’s selection, no.