Gawker’s John Cook writes this morning that Jon Stewart has made Tucker Carlson “restless” and suffer from “bitter nights” and I have to agree after watching Carlson go after Stewart on TV and “The Daily Beast.”
See, Tucker Carlson was waylaid back in 2004 by Stewart, calling Carlson and Begala “partisan hacks” and it was spectacular TV, political, and social commentary. Carlson never really recovered his career it seems. And Gawker’s comment that the ability for someone to simply turn off their belief system when a message is profound, hits to the heart of the issue. Stewart is tired of empty commentary, and puts it in the forum of satire. I would bet he would say “If I don’t laugh about it, I won’t stop crying.”
I’ve watched all of this on the little-big-screen and I have to say, I’ve been wanting to say those same things about many shows. The polarity of TV is so much easier to detect than in papers. At least, for me it is. I think Gawker got one thing wrong, and this will be confusing. Gawker writes that Carlson is back at a keyboard. Then writes this:
“where he can occasionally write true things like this sentence: ‘The relationship between Stewart and the media is a marriage of the self-loathing and the self-loving: He insists their real news is fake, they insist his fake news is real.’”
Stewart only occassionally suggests that the reported news is fake. Like the case of Cramer, who stated that he would manipulated CNBC representatives and reporters because they want information, especially the salacious kind. The kind that would drive up or down a stock price. Putting to rest the idea that the market is rational. It is, but those feeding the market information may not be… ethical.
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