Jon Stewart sides with Joe Rogan as more artists leave Spotify: 'This overreaction is a mistake'

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30. I saw parts of it on t.v. to make up my own mind on things. "Not overtly political" -

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"Not overtly political" - that's the problem and back then the word, both about his rally and BecKKK's, was that both sets of their fans were disappointed for not flying the flag for their fan bases.

BecKKK had hyped it as bringing the country together, healing the great divide. And STEWART, while not exactly saying the same thing, followed suit.

*******That's the point: Both of them were KNOWN for their political bent. And the separate fan bases wanted it as a clarion call, respectively.

Clearly, BecKKK's pseudo-religious delusion was utterly transparent as snake oil. And very soon afterward he was back at his same b.s.

STEWART did a namby-pamby version - with the MythBuster nerds, Hippie Dippy blowing bubbles, and FeelGoodism, semi-Renaissance Fair.

*** O.K., if somebody wants/likes entertainment for entertainment's sake, fine for them. It's not what some of us political junkies were looking for from STEWART. I mean, everybody knows BecKKK is a delusional fraud, no surprise there.

But STEWART was known for his *skewering*, so that's what I would expect and want from him. A DUer said about Tweety, "WHEN he's on our side, there's nobody better," and I'd halfway echo that about STEWART, not the part of "nobody's better" because that's what I'd say about COLBERT.

*** Now here's where I'll dig myself deeper, because back at the time, MAHER said to and about the STEWART rally, "If you're going to have a rally it needs to be *ABOUT* something." --- I say, digging deeper, because MAHER is on a shit list with a tight coterie here.

This is the first time I've seen the take that STEWART's rally was great entertainment and fun. As I saw the faces in the crowd while the hippy dippy stuff was going on, all I saw was: DISAPPOINTMENT, maybe even crestfallen.

*** Now to dig myself even deeper, as this dispute has played out here before, I'll say that COLBERT obviously has a long, personal history with STEWART and will probably never break that bond, but if COLBERT had put on that rally it would have been very clear and ABOUT politics.

The rest of my list against STEWART stands for me and I don't care what he says about anything, even if little bits might be a dig or two against wingnuts, any more than I care about Joe LIEBERMAN.

When I want pure entertainment for entertainment's sake I'll look at things dedicated to that. No harm no foul in my post Replying here. Cheers!