John Stewart the Democratic Shill?

Now here is an interesting reaction to a character assassination attempt by Stewart on columnist John Breitbart.

If the targets were switched and Democrats had the same five-day-a-week bull's-eye placed on their heads, no one doubts that financier George Soros and Media Matters would wage a well-funded rampage to destroy Mr. Stewart and his scribes. Nancy Pelosi would be demanding a comedy Fairness Doctrine. And "The Daily Show" and its partner in crime "The Colbert Report" would be taken off the air within 30 days of electoral primaries and within 60 days of general elections to comply with McCain-Feingold.

I used to watch the Daily Show just about every night because I though it was funny and had an ironic view toward the what is happening in the world. However, after he bashed the crap out of Jim Cramer for not warning us about the economic mess (I guess Mad Money needs to employ a psychic to placate Stewart) I stopped watching the show. Cramer's job is to pick stocks and be entertaining and not be Allison from Medium.

The worst part is Cramer was an Obama supporter but he dared to take the President to task on his economic fix-it plans. So Stewart eviscerated him for it. What sin did Cramer commit other then having an entertaining show about stocks? Was criticising Obama's budget (which even some Dems don't like) worth being attacked day-after-day by the Daily Show? I understand such hatred toward Rush or Hannity but Cramer is an Obama-guy.

Also hiding character assassination behind the mantle of "its just a comedy show" is just a lame excuse. Those out of context clips of Cramer saying Lehman was safe right before the company went belly up is case-in-point. No attempt was made to show that Cramer was actually talking about trading accounts and not the common stock. Then when they are called on it they just shrug and say "we are a comedy show so we don't have to be right about every little thing. *smirk*

I still watch Colbert because he is funny and a geek like me. He hasn't yet degenerated into shouting "F*ck you!" at CNBC people and cutting a bunch of out-of-context attack-dog clips together and calling it comedy.