Jon Stewart blitzes Wolf

Jon Stewart and his Daily Show crew have made delightful sport of media types and pundits in the non-fake newsscape.

 

Jon Stewart wasn’t playing monkey for Fucker Carlson in October 2004.

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Most memorably, a couple years ago: that’s when JS tore a strip off bow-tied dink Tucker Carlson and the latter’s CNN show, Crossfire.

Well, JS did it — again — last night. This time the bull’s eye was Wolf Blitzer, host of CNN’s sensory overload, The Situation Room.

During a postmortem of Larry King’s CNN interview with US Vice President Dick Cheney,* Wolf Blitzer let on:

“I didn’t know that he actually gets his pay cheque from the legislative branch of the US government, from the US Senate.”

Wolf Blitzer didn’t know about Cheney’s pay. Wolf isn’t even a real wolf.

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Oh, blast the invention of video archives! Because, next up, JS introduces a clip of Blitzer reciting that very same Cheney-fact on CNN, almost verbatim.

Of course, picking on media types can be — with refreshing and remarkable exceptions — like shooting fish in a barrel.

While they may be valuable transmitters and echo chambers for information, that doesn’t necessarily mean they absorb the facts or concepts at hand, nor does it mean they’re wise to the world. 

Canuck TV genius Ken Finkleman understood this, and he pulled back the media curtain in his brilliant series, The Newsroom. 

One of Finkleman’s finest comedic creations is “Toronto News” anchor Jim Walcott. Here’s Jim Walcott explaining his coverage of 9/11:

 

 

 

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 * Did you know? If Dick Cheney lived in Latvia, he’d have to spell his name like this: “Diks Čenijs.”

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