ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Jon Stewart Flays Mercenary Jake Tapper for Hawking Biden Health News He Denied for Years.
The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart committed some glorious blue-on-blue violence against disgraced Jake Tapper in a brutal eight-minute segment that would have left anyone other than the shameless Jake Tapper hiding under a rock.
After ridiculing Tapper and CNN for selling in book form breaking news that respectable journalists used to report when that news was actually breaking (and not for $27.00 a week from now), it’s at the seven-minute mark where Stewart lays bare everything sleazy about all this in a single sentence…
“…how fucking weird it is that the news is selling you a book about news they should’ve told you was news a year ago … for free.”
.@jonstewart is getting whiplash watching CNN pivot from promoting Jake Tapper's "bombshell" book to lamenting Joe Biden's cancer diagnosis pic.twitter.com/pShybi5F6e
— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) May 20, 2025
Emmy-winning actress Patricia Heaton linked to Stewart’s segment in an X post and also made an excellent point: “It’s unfathomable how far @jaketapper and @cnn have fallen,” she wrote. “Can you imagine Walter Cronkite constantly hawking a book?! And having all his colleagues join in?! Especially one about news they should have been reporting on all year?! Good job @jonstewart!”
Give Stewart some credit; he was one of very few leftists pointing out Biden’s decline early in 2024: Jon Stewart shrugs off backlash for Joe Biden criticism during his Daily Show return.
The Trump family made video clip appearances during a segment about Biden’s questionable memory, with the former president saying during a deposition that he couldn’t remember whether he said he had a good memory. Cue that wide-eyed Stewart “my-head-is-exploding” look.
But Biden also came in for withering facial expressions, notably when he, during a recent press conference, went back to the podium to talk about Gaza’s nonexistent neighbor, Mexico.
Did Biden have a chance to address the nation on his 2024 platform as part of a pre-Super Bowl interview? “Well, no,” Stewart explained. Instead, he released a TikTok video where he proclaimed his preference for “Mama Kelce” over her football player sons. “I understand she makes great chocolate chip cookies.”
Stewart deployed a blank look for what seemed like hours before blurting out his suggestion to the president: “Fire. Everyone. How do you go on TikTok, and end up looking older?”
In a discussion of aged candidates, he said, “What’s crazy is thinking that we’re the ones as voters who must silence concerns and criticisms. It is the candidates’ jobs to assuage concerns, not the voters’ jobs not to mention them.”
Then, to make his point, Stewart employed another signature move and turned to the camera right and asked for a closeup. “Look at me; look what time hath wrought. Give the kids a look at the lunar surface here,” he said of his craggy features. “And I’m 20 years younger” than the presidential contenders.
Chris D. Jackson, an election commissioner in Tennessee, tweeted in response, “Wow. So you basically say because Biden is old, he is basically as bad as Trump. Why th(e) F do we never learn in this country? Sorry, but I won’t be watching you either.”
Former MSNBC host and political podcaster Keith Olbermann added on X, “Well after nine years away, there’s nothing else to say to the bothsidesist fraud Jon Stewart bashing Biden, except: Please make it another nine years.”
Shades of the backlash NBC’s Dasha Burns received from her fellow Democrats for pointing out John Fetterman’s stroke in 2022.
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