Jon Stewart Mocks Media For Being Distraught Over Image Of Biden Tied Up In The Back Of A Truck
Jon Stewart, host of The Daily Show, criticized the thin-skinned media for being distressed over an image showing President Joe Biden tied up in the back of a pickup truck.
Distressed might not be strong enough of a word.
Donald Trump shared a video of the truck with the decal painted on its liftgate. (Maybe this scandal should be called LiftGate.)
The mainstream media was beside themselves over the image. Headlines about the GOP frontrunner encouraging violence by posting an image of Biden âhogtiedâ in the back of a truck were everywhere.
Leftist political analysts nearly went apoplectic. NBC Universal executive Mike Sington, who recently had to remove a post on X targeting Barron Trump, called the image âshockingâ and described Trump as a âdepraved monsterâ for sharing it.
Keith Olbermann insisted the owner of the truck be arrested for making a threat against the President.
And thatâs just the start. The TV news was even worse.
Stewart though, wasnât buying it.
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How absurd does the media reaction have to be for Jon Stewart to call them out? Stewart is by no means a Trump supporter.
âThatâs what was so disturbing and dehumanizing you wouldnât show it on television? An airbrushed Biden decal on the back of a truck?â he asks. âArenât you the same networks that show reruns of 9/11 every year?â
âI mean I donât think itâs great that Trump is posting things like this, but itâs not like people really think Joe Biden was tied up in the back of the truck.â
@thedailyshow If you think that’s really Joe Biden tied up in the back of that pickup truck, you may not have the mental acuity to be operating a motor vehicle. #DailyShow #JonStewart #Biden #Trump ⏠original sound â The Daily Show
Stewart specifically called out MSNBCâs Ali Veshi. He did suggest people would be duped by the image.
Veshi, who once stood in front of a burning building during a riot and declared it âmostly a protestâ and ânot, generally speaking, unruly,â refused to show the truck decal because of its âviolent and disturbing nature.â
âIf youâre driving behind it, it would appear as if Joe Biden were actually restrained on the vehicleâs flatbed,â Veshi breathlessly states.
Stewart responded by bursting into laughter.
âIf you think thatâs really Joe Biden tied up on the back of the pickup truck, I donât know that you have the mental acuity to be operating a motor vehicle,â Stewart quips.
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Goes After Trump For Fraud Case
As stated, Jon Stewart is not a Trump fan by any stretch. He recently defended the New York State Attorney General for her frivolous civil fraud case against the former President.
Stewart claimed that Trump left victims in his wake by overinflating the value of properties.
âThey are not victimless crimes,â he claimed.
Shortly after that, reports surfaced that Stewart overinflated the price of a penthouse he sold in 2014 by 829%. Critics suggested the news makes Stewart a hypocrite.
The same media distraught over the Biden truck decal thought Kathy Griffin holding up Trumpâs bloodied, severed head was just comedy.
Now that want to see the truck driver imprisoned. Isnât it odd how easily they slip into âjail Trump supportersâ mode now that they know the administration is willing to do so?
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