{"id":37984,"date":"2016-05-13T16:25:21","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T20:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=37984"},"modified":"2016-05-13T16:26:46","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T20:26:46","slug":"on-stewart-just-slammed-hillary-clinton-and-the-mainstream-media-ignored-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=37984","title":{"rendered":"Jon Stewart Just Slammed Hillary Clinton (And The Mainstream Media Ignored It)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->by Claire Bernish<br \/>\nTheAntiMedia.org,<\/p>\n<p>While it\u2019s hardly shocking that mainstream media targeted Jon Stewart\u2019s latest jab &#8211; in which he described Donald Trump as a \u201cman-baby\u201d &#8211; <strong><em>the mainstream media establishment mouthpiece virtually ignored his lambasting of Hillary Clinton.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"quote_start\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"quote_end\"><\/div>\n<p><em>\u201cWhat I think about Hillary Clinton is, you know \u2026 I imagine [her] to be a very bright woman \u2026 without the courage of her convictions \u2014 \u2018cause I\u2019m not even sure what they are,\u201d<\/em> Stewart <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inquisitr.com\/3088330\/jon-stewart-hillary-clinton-has-no-convictions-im-not-even-sure-what-they-are\/\" target=\"_blank\">told<\/a> David Axelrod for his podcast,<em>The Axe<\/em>, to which the audience erupted in applause.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Though the slam represented more than corporate media has managed thus far during the former secretary of state\u2019s troubled run for the presidency, Jon Stewart took the description to a hilarious next level. For reference, Magic Johnson once had a talk show that ultimately failed because \u2026 well \u2026 witness Stewart\u2019s comparison of Johson to Hillary:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"quote_start\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"quote_end\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201c<em>Magic Johnson was a charming individual, but he wasn\u2019t a talk show host \u2026 so, he would sit and he would go, [Stewart affected a flat tone here] \u2018Uh, my first guest tonight \u2026 my first guest tonight is [with lots of enthusiasm] CHER, everybody!\u2019 But he never seemed authentic and real to his personality. It seemed like he was wearing an outfit designed by someone else for someone else to be someone else, and that is not to say that [Clinton] is not preferable to Donald Trump \u2014 <\/em>because<em> at this point, I would vote for Mr. T over Donald Trump. But I think she will be in big trouble if she can\u2019t find a way, and maybe I\u2019m wrong. Maybe a real person doesn\u2019t exist underneath there. I don\u2019t know.<\/em>\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Axelrod then asked the former host of the <em>Daily Show<\/em> about Clinton\u2019s appearance as a guest \u2014 and the criticism continued:<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:arc:video:comedycentral.com:ea874349-8a8f-4613-a797-530d26e0d371\" width=\"512\" height=\"288\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:arc:video:comedycentral.com:74afc206-c807-41d5-b6fc-8072c5824249\" width=\"512\" height=\"288\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>What was that like?\u201d<\/em> Axelrod inquired about the former secretary\u2019s interview.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cReally cool,\u201d<\/em> Stewart deadpanned. <em>\u201cIt\u2019s \u2014 look, there are politicians who are either rendering their inauthenticity in real enough time to appear authentic, and then their are politicians who render their inauthenticity through \u2014 it\u2019s like, when your computer \u2026 if you have a Mac and you want to play a Microsoft game on it \u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>AXELROD: Yes, yes.<\/p>\n<p>STEWART: \u2026 and there\u2019s that weird lag.<\/p>\n<p>AXELROD: Yes. No, I mean \u2026<\/p>\n<p>STEWART: That\u2019s Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>AXELROD: \u2026 that\u2019s a big problem. There\u2019s like a seven-second delay and all the words come out in a perfectly \u2026<\/p>\n<p>STEWART: Right.<\/p>\n<p>AXELROD: \u2026 politically calibrated sentence.<\/p>\n<p>STEWART: Right. Now, what gives me hope in that is that there\u2019s a delay, which means she\u2019s somehow fighting something. I\u2019ve seen politicians who don\u2019t have that delay and render their inauthenticity in real time, and that\u2019s when you go, \u2018That\u2019s a sociopath.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>So, there you have it. <strong>Jon Stewart described Hillary Clinton as inauthentic and not bold enough to follow through on issues she stridently touts \u2014 but stopped just short of calling the presidential hopeful a \u2018sociopath.\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/twitter.com\/ggreenwald\/status\/730749742259539968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/p>\n<div class=\"SandboxRoot env-bp-350\">\n<div class=\"resize-sensor\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>For the full podcast, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Da5VYSPsoE0\" target=\"_blank\">visit this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>__<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2016-05-13\/jon-stewart-just-slammed-hillary-clinton-and-mainstream-media-ignored-it\">http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2016-05-13\/jon-stewart-just-slammed-hillary-clinton-and-mainstream-media-ignored-it<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}