Is it just me or has there lately been a shift in The Daily Show to help Hillary Clinton? Last week I was surprised that Jon Stewart ran the first "Dick of the Week" segment and named Barack Obama because his campaign workers offered concert tickets the same day Bill Clinton was speaking on campus. Okay.
Last night he aired a segment on the last debate in which he pilloried the ABC questioners for asking pointless, "gotcha" questions and pretended to be resentful because that was his domain, and then aired a moment of Obama at his worst while stumbling to answer one of the absurd questions on tax reform. Left unscathed was Hillary. Hmm.
I haven't noticed that he and his writers have actively promoted Hillary Clinton but if they continue to skewer only Obama and McCain, the effect would be the same. I understand that The Daily Show writers may find targets anywhere; they will never pass up a good laugh line, and that they don't pretend to be a balanced news show, and yet their satire most often has more truth in it than what I see on the networks or certainly Faux News. Jon Stewart is an influential voice with the young and if he continues to protect a fellow New Yorker while spoofing everyone else, I may stop laughing soon.