Business Insider:
This might come as a blow to some members of its fanbase: ‘The Daily Show’ does not appear to be a fan of Occupy Wall Street.
Much like every other mainstream media show, when they went down to Zuccotti park they only managed to find weirdos.
Mark Wauck tells me that this is Stewart’s house. Big carbon footprint. Big dock.
Looks like Stewart’s the 1%
Well then…Stewart will lose some fans.
Stewart has to keep the advertisers happy. The media is a huge part of the deception.
I went to watch John Pilger speak once. He was offered a job at the UK Independent when the newspaper was founded. He asked about the conditions and was told he’d only be able to write something political max once a month otherwise the advertisers would leave.
http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/41963.Neil_Postman
” But in Huxley’s vision, no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history. As he saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny “failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions”. In 1984, Huxley added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us.”
“Records also indicate that Mister Stewart–through his real estate trust, which happens to be named after his cat and dog–also owns a water front home in the Bay Point area of Sag Harbor, NY.
In November of 2005 Mister and Missus Stewart sold their Greenwich Village apartment to too tan bon mot making fashion designer Michael Kors for $3,995,000. The family traded up to a $5,800,000 doo-plex penthouse in lower Manhattan’s TriBeCa neighborhood. Reports from the time of the purchase reveal the condo crib spans approximately 6,000 square feet on the interior with another approximately 1,800 square feet of outdoor space. The Stewarts share the top of their building with mustachioed baseball stud Mike Piazza who had his 2 bedroom and 2 pooper penthouse on the market in 2008 and early 2009 with an asking price of $6,500,000.”
http://realestalker.blogspot.com/2010/05/red-bank-nj-gets-lefty-liberal-jon.html
From the few videos I’ve seen, Mr. Stewart seems to be fairly supportive of the OWS movement. His only criticisms have been over form, not content, and only then because he said certain actions the protesters take can alienate the mainstream public. He covered in in some detail Monday night and was overwhelmingly positive, with the one exception (a picture of man defecating on a police car). While Mr. Stewart’s ragging on that exception did grate on my nerves, I would not say he was anti-OWS. I noticed that at one point when describing it, he used the word “we.”
He certainly is part of the 1% from an economic standpoint, but so are/were people like Chomsky, Zinn, Said, Naomi Wolf (who was arrested for participating in the protests), and many other similar figures.