Jon Stewart’s “quick message” to election pollsters was a speech laden with swearing and shouting that coincided with President Trump’s outcome. winning re-election Tuesday.
“The Daily Show” guest hostwho will continue to host the late-night talk show until 2025, first directed his anger at sounders who claimed the presidential election would be close (among other predictions) and apparently underestimated Trump’s potential comeback. Then he triggered a NSFW guideline (which we will not repeat in this family journal).
“I never want to hear from you again. Never. I never want to hear “We fixed the overcorrection.” You don’t know anything about what’s going on. And I don’t care about you,” said the agitated host during the election night special live as the results came in.
“Here’s what we know: we really don’t know anything,” Stewart declared. “We’re going to come out of this election and we’re going to make all kinds of statements about what this country is and what this world is. And the truth is, we won’t really know. And we are going to make people believe that this is the purpose of our civilization. We will all have to wake up tomorrow morning and work like hell to get the world to where we prefer it to be.
Stewart reiterated that the lessons experts draw from these results and the statements they make with certainty “will be wrong.”
The veteran host of the “Daily Show,” who returned to the Comedy Central office as interim host in February, he returned to post-racial proclamations made by ABC News pundit George Stephanopoulos when Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008 and to Bill O’Reilly’s remarks on Fox News about a GOP pivot on Hispanic voters in Obama’s 2012 re-election. Stewart also featured additional proclamations from experts ushering in a new, younger generation after Trump, then cut to a contradictory clip of Biden , then 78, accepting the nomination for the 2020 election at the Democratic National Convention.
Stewart said the “winning message” ultimately led to the insurrection of January 6and the lesson – as pundits put it at the time – was that Trump would leave the White House as a “pariah” and never be allowed to set foot in the Capitol again. This is also false.
“My point is this,” Stewart said, launching into an uproar. “But this is not the end. I promise you. This is not the end. And we must come together and continue to fight and work day in and day out to create a better society for our children, for this world, for this country, that we know is possible. It’s possible.
