Jon Stewart, host of The daily showcriticized the thin-skinned media for being distressed by an image showing President Joe Biden tied up in the back of a pickup truck.
Distressed might not be a strong enough word.
Donald Trump shared a video of the truck with the sticker painted on the tailgate. (Maybe this scandal should be called LiftGate.)
The mainstream media was beside themselves with the image. Everywhere there were headlines about the Republican front-runner encouraging the violence by publishing an image of Biden “crawling” in the back of a truck.
Left-wing political analysts have almost become apoplectic. NBC Universal executive Mike Sington, who recently had to remove an X post targeting Barron Trump, called the image “shocking” and described Trump as a “depraved monster” for sharing it.
Keith Olbermann insisted that the owner of the truck be arrested for threatening the president.
And this is only the beginning. The news was even worse.
Stewart, though, wasn’t buying it.
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“Was that what was so disturbing and dehumanizing that it wasn’t shown on television? An airbrushed Biden decal on the back of a truck?” he asks. “Aren’t you the same networks that air reruns of 9/11 every year?”
“I mean, I don’t think it is Great that Trump is posting stuff like that, but it’s not like people actually think Joe Biden was tied up in the back of the truck.
@thedailyshow If you think it’s really Joe Biden tied up in the back of that pickup truck, you may not have the mental acuity to operate a motor vehicle. #DailyShow #JonStewart #Biden #Trump ♬ original sound – The Daily Show
Stewart specifically called out MSNBC’s Ali Veshi. He Done suggest that people would be fooled by the image.
Veshi, who once stood in front of a burning building during a riot and declared that it was “primarily a protest” and “not, in general, unruly,” refused to display the truck sticker because of the its “violent and disturbing nature”.
“If you drove behind it, it would look as if Joe Biden was actually held down in the floor of the vehicle,” Veshi says breathlessly.
Stewart responded by bursting into laughter.
“If you think that’s really Joe Biden tied up in the back of the pickup truck, I don’t know if you have the mental acuity to operate a motor vehicle,” Stewart jokes.
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As stated, Jon Stewart is not a Trump fan at all. He recently defended the New York State Attorney General in his frivolous civil fraud case against the former president.
Stewart said Trump left victims in his wake by overinflating property values.
“These are not victimless crimes,” he said.
Shortly after, reports surfaced that Stewart had overinflated the price of a penthouse he sold in 2014 by 829%. Critics have suggested that the news makes Stewart a hypocrite.
The same media shocked by the Biden truck decal thought Kathy Griffin holding Trump’s bloody, severed head was just an act.
Now I want to see the truck driver imprisoned. Isn’t it strange how easily they slip into “Trump supporters in prison” mode now that they know the administration is willing to do so?
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