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Fox News Calls Jon Stewart A Racist
Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace set up most of his interview with Jon Stewart to try to prove that Stewart is a partisan liberal activist, and for good measure they insinuated that The Daily Show host is a racist.
Here is the video from Mediate:
Jon Stewart explained the difference between himself and Fox News, “Here’s the difference between you and I. I am a comedian first. My comedy is informed by an ideological background. There’s no question about that, and the thing that you will never understand, and the thing that in some respects conservative activists will never understand is that Hollywood, yeah they’re liberal, but that’s not their primary motivating force. I’m not an activist. I’m a comedian.”
Wallace brought up David Zurawik’s criticism that Stewart dodges criticism by claiming he is only a comedian. Stewart responded, “When did I say to you I am only a comedian? I said I’m a comedian first. That’s not only. Being a comedian is harder than what you do. What I do is much harder. I put material through a comedic process. I don’t just sit around and narrate.”
After playing clip of Jon Stewart doing his Herman Cain impression, Chris Wallace asked if he was planning a remake of Amos and Andy, and Stewart called out his bias, “Why don’t you show, do you show me doing all the voices for all the other people that we do? Do you want to see my New York voice? My Chinese guy voice? Are you suggesting you and I are the same? Are you suggesting? What am I at my highest aspiration, and what you at your highest aspiration?”
Wallace claimed that Stewart wants to be a political player, and he shot Wallace down, “You are wrong. You’re dead wrong. I appreciate what you are saying. Do I want my voice heard? Do I want my voice heard? Absolutely, that’s why I got into comedy.” Stewart asked Wallace if he thought he was an activist, and he said yes.
The Daily Show host tried to explain the difference between himself and Fox News, “Ok, then I disagree with. You can’t understand because of the world you live in that there is not a designed ideological agenda on my part to affect partisan change. Because that’s the soup you swim in. I appreciate that, and I understand it. It reminds of ideological regimes. They can’t understand that there is free media other places because they get marching orders.”
This interview was all about Wallace trying to prove that Jon Stewart is just like Fox News. Wallace was trying to prove that Stewart is a partisan who is pushing a liberal agenda, and for good measure he threw in the Herman Cain thing to insinuate that Jon Stewart is a liberal racist. Despite Stewart’s praise for Chris Wallace as someone who brings credibility to Fox, Wallace proved his partisan lean by pushing the idea that Stewart has secret desires to be a political player, and suggesting that he hates conservative black people.
Every time I have written about Fox News and Jon Stewart, conservatives always complain that it is apples and oranges. Stewart is comedy, FNC is news. This time Fox News intentionally compared themselves to Jon Stewart in an effort to push the message that he is an activist hiding behind comedy, just like Fox News is activism hiding behind the pretext of news.
Besides being a liberal, one of the right’s other favorite charges against Jon Stewart is that he is a racist. Back in 2007, a white supremest organization, which I will not link to, called for Stewart to be fired because he is racist against whites. In 2010, right wing talk show host Michael Savage claimed that Stewart is the cause of anti-antisemitism, and the right wing media has chirping for almost two weeks that Stewart is a racist after his Herman Cain joke.
Today’s stealth attack against Stewart came from an organization that has pushed stories fueled by racism like ACORN, the New Black Panthers, Shirley Sherrod, and Common. Since Obama was elected, Fox News has done everything in their power to make broaden and exploit America’s racial divide. Plus, Glenn Beck’s claim on Fox and Friends that Obama is a racist.
The allegation of racism against Jon Stewart was subtle, but it was there. When Wallace referred to Amos and Andy, the point was made. Many who have written about this interview today have missed it, but it can’t be denied.
Chris Wallace and Fox News insinuated that Jon Stewart is a racist.
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13 Responses to Fox News Calls Jon Stewart A Racist
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jcinco
Jun. 19th, 2011 at 3:47 pm
Jon Stewart made a fool of wallace. Although he didn’t chew him up and spit him out ala tucker carlson he did own him…
Alan
Jun. 19th, 2011 at 4:04 pm
Jon calling Chris Wallace a a hard hitting interviewer is incorrect. Jon obviously missed Chris’ interview with Sarah Palin regarding her glorious misinterpretation of history of Paul Revere’s ride. He was soft on her and let her slide on her inaccuracies. A little disappointed in Jon that he didn’t bring that up. It seems they’re balls do a little shriveling when they’re in person of the interviewee or interviewer.
Alan
Jun. 19th, 2011 at 4:11 pm
Here’s the related video link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=F...
What?
Jun. 20th, 2011 at 10:38 am
He let her slide because she also works for Fox. He’s not going to make a joke of her (like he should have) because they’re on the same payroll and in the same boat. They do this all the time with people on their side.
kevrob
Jun. 19th, 2011 at 4:36 pm
In the entirity of the interview, your 1 take-away was that Wallace accused Stewart of racism?
Seriously?
Neil Sagan
Jun. 20th, 2011 at 12:16 am
If you read the article above, you’ll see that was not Jason’s one takeaway.
To the point, Chris Wallace takes himself seriously as a journalist and for good reason. At one moment in the interview however, Wallace served up a clip of Jon Stewart doing a comedic voice of Herman Cain, mocking Cain’s idea that all Bills would be 3 pages or less, and then asked Stewart a gotcha question, Would you like to do Amos and Andy? The way Wallace asked the question made it clear Wallace was implying that he thought Stewart Cain voice it was racist. Wallace wants to hold Stewart accountable for being unbiased. Stewart explains that he should be held accountable for being funny.
I lost some respect for Wallace as a journalist at that moment. He was more invested in using Stewart to make Fox News seem less conservative and less extreme.
Chris Wallace’s thesis is that bias is everywhere and no one is more or less biased or more or less racist.
Shiva (Moderator)
Jun. 19th, 2011 at 5:28 pm
Fox Tried and failed.
Stewart is lucky. He can say the things that the media cant say.
teenspirit
Jun. 19th, 2011 at 7:31 pm
Man I am so glad I don’t watch fox news anymore. Their agenda is so sickening and obvious. If Chris Wallace was a real news man he would have asked jon legitimate questions and treated Stewart with the respect he deserves. What Jon Stewart does is brilliant and if the crusty, old neocon right can’t laugh at Jon Stewart there’s no way in hell they deserve to be in power. They take themselves way to seriously. All this gotcha b.s. is so old and tiring, enough with it already. Stewart should seriously consider never going on fox again. He is a respectable guy and goes on that station because he doesn’t have an agenda. Unfortunatly the same can’t be said for fox. They eat, breath and sleep agenda.
Maple
Jun. 19th, 2011 at 10:39 pm
I suspect that Jon Stewart agrees to go on Faux Gnus as leverage to try to ensure that their personnel come on to his show, so that he can skewer them! But what does it matter? He gets better ratings than all but O’Reilly. And no doubt he’ll overtake O’Reilly one of these days.
james harvey
Jun. 19th, 2011 at 10:23 pm
So I’ve watched this about 4 times now and I don’t see how Stewart made any racial remarks or innuendo. Wallace telling Stewart to do Amos and Andy was the racist mark that should have been launched if you want to take that 10 second segment into consideration. How do you justify Stewart’s impression as any type of racial fiasco, but Wallace and FOX tried… and I agree on another poster’s remark of the same subject…good video clip; piece of shit article. This 15 minute video, and this writer has the tenacity to argue racism… over a 10 second clip… Stewart is totally offended when Wallace made that comment, and I would have been too.
Shiva (Moderator)
Jun. 19th, 2011 at 10:35 pm
Stewart wasnt called racist over anything he said in the interview, it was over his career on the Daily show.
You have to be deeper than a soap sud