Speaking at a Monday morning breakfast in Denver, Jon Stewart, with his above-the-fray habit of telling the truth no matter who it offends, said this:
I’m stunned to see Karl Rove on a news network as an analyst,” said Stewart, adding “Barack Obama could cure cancer and Fox News would figure out a way to frame it as an economic disaster.”
Stewart has always said that 24-hour news channels have created a false sense of urgency, and I agree. Cable news has turned the daily news (what used to only take 30 minutes at 6 pm) into a constant, deafening stream of all-day, repetitious, dumbed-down nonsense. And too many people, including me, have watched hours and hours of it with glazed-over eyes.
In other prophetic utterances, Jon Stewart has had this to share:
* Fox’s ‘fair and balanced’ slogan is an insult to people with brains
* The cable news networks are a brutish, slow-witted beast.
* Fox News is an appendage of the Republican Party.
We all knew it, but Jon said it.
