Jon Stewart (born Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz) is just pandering to his base, that’s all.

Based upon his commentary, he’s either atheistic or agnostic. If I had to put a name on his religion it would be Barry’sm. King Put can do no wrong for Jon.

He certainly has a cavalier attitude towards Islamism

IIRC, he spent a serious amount of time in Iran recently. I don’t expect to get any straight answers about that pilgrimage. (Carrying notes from Valerie girl?)

I have a hard time believing that such a high profile, politicized, American Jew would have easy doings in Iran — unless the White House gave him a special, super-duper hall pass.

And it’s a pretty good bet that Jon finds it now impossible to launch barbs at Tehran without hurting those near and dear to him — that are still under the mullah’s thumbs.

I don’t think that he thought twice about being put in such a compromising position. That’s just how bright he really is.

I suspect that it never dawned on him that the mullahs were conducting a media operation on his psyche. I would pronounce it a total success, BTW.

Comedians like John Stewart make me cringe. Making fun of your political enemies 5 days a week doesn’t take any iimagination or talent.

I will miss her. She could rattle off some outrageous stuff when she was on a roll.

not All of us have forgotten. 😉

Another little note about Joanie: she was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Barnard College, Class of 1954. smart cookie. (Note that this was before the era of Participation Trophies and the dumbed-down SATs.)

Here’s another great video of her giving them hell about the Paleos: http://preview.tinyurl.com/muqyxfc

Peggy Noonan actually wrote that? If so, the Crusade for Correct Usage of Lie and Lay may as well admit utter defeat.

A couple of years ago I saw him on a late-night talk show. He was telling a story about nothing really, something about he and his wife travelling to some dinner but he had me in stitches.

Her recent off the cuff comments on Palestine were quite cogent. No wasted words. For all the words she spoke in public without a teleprompter, it is amazing how few “umms..ahs” and poorly phrased sentences she had. Are Harry Reid or Joe Biden going to chime in about how articulate she was? 🙂

That, I believe, is why I so enjoyed her humor. Yes, she could cut someone down with very unkind remarks; but, she also cut herself down too. She considered herself to be fair game along with everyone else.

I loved her one comment once where she said that she wished she had a twin so that she could see how she might have actually aged! Gotta love it!

She belongs up there with the likes of Lucille Ball and Phyllis Diller.

And, now, with this new knowledge (new to me anyway) that she had such intelligent political viewpoints make me love her all the more.

I’ll forever remember one of last public remarks where a reporter asked her if the US would have its first gay president or female president; and without hesitation Joan said, “what do you mean? we already have gay Barry and Michelle is a tranny” or something to that effect. Witty to the end!

To be fair, I don’t really care much for most stand up comedy these days. I think Cosby was perhaps the last one I really enjoyed.

It is nice to learn more about her as a person.