I generally like all the Daily Show guys, but it is interesting how they're kind of held up as the "bull**** busters" of America when they have their own biases and at times misinformation.
Not speaking to this specifically as I haven't watched it yet, but the past few posts reminded me of it.
What kind of got to me was when Jon Stewart finished his show off with a big speech about how there's so much bull**** out there and that he wants the young crowd to be aware of it and see through it.
Yet, I immeditaly remembered that he put together a huge segment on Alberta's TAR SANDS and did a Leo DiCaprio style beat down of our industry right after all the big Oil guys in the States started pushing hard to destroy Canada's Oil industry for protectionist reasons.
It was like he just listended to Obama talk about keystone and Alberta and went "yep, Obama's my guy, of course he's right!" and did a hit piece. Wasn't a fan of that. Stewart's a smart enough guy that he either saw the protectionist aspect and didn't care do to bias or just didn't look into it enough.
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