People mad at Jon Stewart missed a hell of an interview

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39. it's actually part of a pattern of discouraging voters

...and his Daily Show contributed greatly to increased cynicism and apathy among voters, especially the sizable number of young voters who watched Stewart and listed his show as their primary news source.

None of what you projected in your post concerns me at all. Criticizing the king? Are you serious?

This is what I'm expecting a repeat of from this gadfly clown:

New Republic, February 13, 2015
Jon Stewart Made America More Cynical

But at least one ode rang false. At The Atlantic, David Sims wrote that Stewart’s “willingness to swipe at every hagiography or exaggeration presented by politicians and media alike made him the most trusted man on television in an era of profound cynicism.” But Stewart shouldn’t get a free pass, just because he’s funny: He did his part to foster that atmosphere of distrust and scorn. Hardly anyone—right or left, public figure or ordinary citizen—could assume they were exempt from his mockery. I’ve often found that watching Stewart attack everyone for half an hour can leave you feeling kind of hopeless.

Empirical research supports this idea. In 2004, Jody Baumgartner and Jonathan Morris, political scientists at East Carolina University, designed an experiment to look at how watching “The Daily Show” affected viewers’ feelings toward politicians of both parties...

Baumgartner and Morris asked members of the control group about their media consumption habits and attitudes toward the candidates and, interestingly, found that regularly watching the “The Daily Show” was the strongest predictor of lacking faith in the electoral system and distrusting the news media. Other comic-news shows, like “The Jay Leno Show” or “Late Show With David Letterman,” didn’t have the same effect.

https://newrepublic.com/article/121069/jon-stewart-made-viewers-more-cynical