Is The Daily Show to Blame for the State of Today’s Media?

Right. No one's gonna pass the purity test. No one. They're just looking for something. And I think that, again, it goes back to the thing, like, that's not nice. Like, if all your... you're constantly attacking... Now's not the time to be nice, Joe. Now's the time for rage. Yeah. There was someone that... someone wrote something about... Oh, that guy from CNN. What's his name? Brian... Stelter. Stelter. That guy. That one looks like Divine out of drag. That's that guy. He wrote something about... about, like, angry journalism. I forget what he wrote, but it was, like, widely criticized. Why? Well, because it was, like, basically he's admitting that this is... like, you're not doing journalism. This is, like, editorial... it's an editorial take. Yeah, that's a direct, very... yeah. Yeah. It's like you're... That guy Jeff Sucker's like... You're calling for activism more than you're calling for... ... the news. It's just marketing. It's just... And you believe that you're correct, so you're gonna, like, push your idea. I mean, this is what... we would go to the news. What we really want is someone who's gonna tell us exactly what happened without any political bend to it. That's what we really want. And we expect... But that doesn't exist. By the way, I still... even saying that, I still expect I'm probably gonna see a little bit of it. People figure in there's probably gonna be that. And when I was a kid, it was like that, but not near to now where it's become like a catty gossip mixed with news. Yeah, now it's fucking... Because it's all... because women shared more online. That's why... They're targeting the emotions of women. That's specifically by design. This is the same thing we're talking about with the Elon Musk thing. Like, how could you say that he didn't do that when he can show you all these tweets? Like, how can you... How can you accuse someone... It's just out to get him, dude. I mean, they have a thing for him. How is that... where are we in the news? It's like if some rapper talking about how the cops won't leave him alone. Like, he's like a guy... The cops are always gonna bother him. He just got on the bad side of it. It's an institution. And all these institutions, if you talk about it, they hate you. They have it in for you. It's crazy. I think you're like a cop that's corrupt going, but, well, the thin blue line and blocking, but you're a fucking dirty... Yeah, but we're good with it. So that's how they are with Elon Musk? So they are with a bunch of people. That's so crazy. It's not like so much about justice, let's say, as it is about processing in the system and shit. That's what they... that's their job. Okay? And that's what they... that's what they fucking... Did you find his quote? A bunch of people had made a meme out of it and were passing it around. It was him calling. I forget the expression that he used, but I read... I really wish I could remember because I looked at someone's tweet about it or Instagram about it. And they were saying, finally, you know, you're admitting what you really do. Finally, you're admitting that your rage journalistic instincts are showing. Oh, yeah, right. It's rage journalism, you know? It's been open for... they've been opening like that for a while, I feel like. We need somewhere that's going to give us the information, just clear, 100% dedicated to factual information without any political bend at all. No one's doing that. Somebody would be like, it's not possible, so it might as well be my politics. It's got to be possible. It used to be possible. Yeah. It's got to be possible to just read the news. Because if you look at every... like, there's got to be some things... Whoever does that will start getting views and... you know what I mean? Like, somebody who fills that niche, it will be successful. Because there's going to be people who should be able to report on maybe dumb shit that Trump tweets and also report at... report on the really important things that are happening that are good for the economy. They should just stop reporting on Trump's tweets. Just try it. Just fucking try it for a minute. You're playing right into his hand, first off. It's like annihilation. Look what he said. And then while they do that, he gets like a judge in or something. He does that all the time. It's very savvy, dude. He's always very savvy in a lot of ways. It's like the fake, not sophisticated language that he uses. It's almost like he uses that to kind of throw you off the trail. Unlike Don King with crazy hair, he's got his own crazy hair. It's almost like in some ways it throws you off the trail. There's something about crazy hair that really... It throws you off the trail. It's... you know, there's no newspaper or no thing that I subscribe to or I don't get at least some political bias one way or the other. You know what? Just clearly mark the stuff that's editorial or like, you know, this is not news. Just mark it as that. Like, there has to be. And have news and then the news, you save one for the part that it goes. Everybody just do their job. You don't have to fucking... to The Daily Show. I blame a lot of this on The Daily Show. Not because it was bad or a whole bunch of people that became news for them. Right. And so then all the other ones, like, why don't we have a like Daily Show but more news than comedy. That's so true. And people... it's terrible. It's terrible. That's such a good point that I never even considered. Yeah. I mean, I didn't make it up. Somebody must have said it. I'm sure someone said it, but it's a great point. It's right. That's news for a lot of kids, like college kids are barely paying attention. They're flipping through Comedy Central and John Stewart's there telling them what's going on in a hilarious way in a hilarious way. Trevor Noah want like, that's a different generation because I would just be like, why is it? By the way, I know I met him before. Like, I like him. But I'm just like, why do you have some guy that shows not an American? Why? Like, what is with a guy with a foreign accent here? It's beautiful. All these shows that are like the American... It's always someone not from here. That's interesting. Like John Oliver. Same thing. And I even like him. I like him a lot. He's hilarious. They seem to have a fucking... What do you call it? I don't have that kind of feeling of like... I always have a level of that. Like, what the fuck are you? Right. Like, I can't imagine going to England and doing a political show about their politics. That's true. I can't even apply that.