Recently I've been picking on Jon Stewart for his woefully inept attempt to deflect criticism for his side of the media, claiming they aren't biased and that Fox News viewers are "uninformed". Both statements are provably false but you'll never find the so-called mainstream media dissecting his statements the way they frequently do of any prominent right-winger.
Another thing you won't find the mainstream media grilling Stewart over is this (starts at the 2 minute mark):
The Left is falling all over itself trying to excuse this. "Is it racist?" They ask. "Can't Herman Cain take a joke?"
The first question isn't even worth considering. Of course it's racist, by the standards set up by Jon Stewart's own mainstream media! Now, let's be honest here. Most politicians' verbal quirks or mannerisms or speech patterns get mocked by comedians from both sides all the time. That's par for the course of being a politician in a free country. I'm all for it. Mock Bill Clinton (which he was). Mock George W. Bush (which he really was). Mock Barack Obama...wait. We can't do that. Not because there's nothing to mock; the man is a comedy goldmine. But he's black, therefore any mockery of him is unquestionably due to racism. That's the argument the left uses all the time.
Mock George W. Bush? Hilarious. Mock Obama? Racist!
I will say that I personally don't have an issue with Stewart's mockery of Cain's speech patterns. It's apparent the mainstream media doesn't either. But that's because Stewart is a leftist Democrat. Let's imagine for a moment that he's a Republican.
How quickly do you think he would lose his job? The answer is probably instantly, and more to the point, how do you think the headlines would look? Right now they say things like "Jon Stewart Racist?" or "Do YOU Think Stewart's Impression of Cain was Racist?" or "Herman Cain Upset over Stewart Routine". If Stewart were a conservative Republican, they would say "Stewart Fired over Racist Routine". Or, if he weren't fired, the headlines would read "Outrage over Racist Routine may Cost Stewart His Job".
He would be eviscerated by the press. Calls for his resignation would be loud and frequent. He would never work in the public eye again.
Oh, but he wasn't mocking Herman Cain's blackness! He was mocking his "down-home" speech style! He'd do the same if Cain was white but talked like he was from the deep south!
Uh-huh. And James Hudnall was only poking fun at Obama's jug-ears. Obama does have jug-ears, and it's not racist to say so. But according to Laurence O'Dumbass, you can't draw a caricature of President Obama and not have racial intent.
But Jon Stewart does an Amos 'n Andy act at the expense of a prominent black conservative, and he's a-okay. Why is it racist to poke fun at a black president for issues that have nothing to do with his race, but completely acceptable to make fun of a black conservative because he talks with a southern "black" accent?
On top of that, what Stewart was mocking Cain for was Cain's insistence that bills not be so long that there's no time to read them before it's time to pass them. This is reasonable, and the left would never accept a bill 800 pages long with a two-day deadline to pass it from George W. Bush, or any other right-winger. But with Obama it's okay, because "Who reads bills, anyway?"
Stewart mocked this by suggesting that Herman Cain just doesn't like to read. Yeah. Think this would be acceptable if he were a Republican? "Stewart Suggests that Black Conservative Can't Read", the headlines would say.
The leftist double-standard rears its ugly head again. "We can mock black conservatives, suggesting they're dumb and illiterate, but you can't mock anything about Obama, or even point out the real flaws in his policies and actions, or you're a racist."
This is our "post-racial" world.
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