{"id":447,"date":"2004-06-22T01:46:44","date_gmt":"2004-06-22T05:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/benadida\/2004\/06\/22\/jon-stewart-the-last-real-journalist"},"modified":"2004-06-22T01:46:44","modified_gmt":"2004-06-22T05:46:44","slug":"jon-stewart-the-last-real-journalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/2004\/06\/22\/jon-stewart-the-last-real-journalist\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Stewart &#8211; The Last Real Journalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a110'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two quotations from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (2 days ago):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;You have to hand it to Bill Clinton: his integrity is at its highest when the situation is at its most hypothetical.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;If I&#8217;m thinking of a despot who is (1) developing weapons of mass destruction, (2) harboring terrorists, (3) violating international law, and (4) persecuting his own people, you can&#8217;t tell me which country I&#8217;m talking about.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And when Dick Cheney completely contradicts himself, Jon Stewart is the only mainstream journalist to pull out the footage that shows the contradiction. Word for word contradiction. It&#8217;s not even partisan, it&#8217;s just pointing out the straight out lies, both from the Clinton and Bush II administrations.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s Comedy Central, but it isn&#8217;t funny. Why aren&#8217;t the other journalists doing their job? Why is Jon Stewart the only one asking the tough questions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two quotations from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (2 days ago): &#8220;You have to hand it to Bill Clinton: his integrity is at its highest when the situation is at its most hypothetical.&#8221; &#8220;If I&#8217;m thinking of a despot who is (1) developing weapons of mass destruction, (2) harboring terrorists, (3) violating international law, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}