…and it is Jon Stewart. Jay Carney told reporters that President Obama’s interview in 2012 with Jon Stewart, just before the election, was the toughest the President has done. Let that sink in. When asked what he thought that demonstrated to him, Carney had some well rehearsed statement about Stewart’s intellect and ability to reach young people, blah, blah, blah. But what that really tells US, is the mainstream media is a waste of space. So far gone are the days when real reporters caught Presidents doing shady things the darkness of DC hotels. Now it’s a circus act aimed at entertaining, not informing.
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