When minister Matt Slick reluctantly agreed to chat with Daily Show correspondent Samantha Bee about relations between gays and Christians, he faced the same format: skeptical interviewer, oddly long conversation. Slick dodged Bee’s baiting and focused on Christian love. At one point he was asked if there had been instances of gays assaulting Christians, to which he deflected:
I don’t know about bullying where homosexuals go out and find straights to beat up. I’m sure it happens though. Just as I’m sure it happens where straights go out and look for homosexuals to beat up. Both are wrong.
When the segment aired, Slick appeared to say this: “The reverse happens as well where homosexuals go out and find straights to beat up.” The sentence consists of two different Slick quotes shot from two different camera angles torn out of context and spliced together to make Slick sound like he was prescribing a major social problem when he was really expressing innocuous ignorance. But the audience laughed anyways. We suspected Christians were self-pitying buffoons and we were right!
The Daily Show’s M.O., buttressing blue-state prejudices, often comes at the expense of its comedy. The fatal transgression of Jones’s Redskins segment wasn’t that it was dishonest, but that it was unfunny—seven minutes of sarcasm with an intermission of Jones making marginally amusing faces while drinking at a Redskins tailgate. Then at the end there was this comedic crescendo: “Hey, he-who-stands-on-the-wrong-side-of-history: change the f-cking name!” This is funny, you see, because of the word “f-cking,” which is considered profanity.
This has become a pattern on the Daily Show. Here’s a smattering of recent headlines: “Jon Stewart Tells Fox News: ‘F-ck You and All Your False Patriotism.’” “Jon Stewart: Can ‘F-cking Crazy’ ISIS Even Lead?” “Jon Stewart Wonders ‘What the F-ck is Going on’ in Iraq?” “Jon Stewart to Donald Trump: ‘What the F-ck is Wrong With You?’” “Jon Stewart: ‘F-ck You, Shakespeare, F-ck You.’”
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When you compare him with the ”comedy” show in Idiocrisy you realize we still could fall further.
But it is astounding that anyone gives him credence.
Yet we keep hearing his show cited AS IF it were a news source.
I’d love to see Ms. Bee take on an imam with those same questions.
After all a Muslim did try to burn down a gay nightclub by pouring gasoline down the entry steps, then lighting them on fire.
Muslim ”morality police,” (muttawa) in San Fran and Seattle have run round beating up gays who hold hands on the streets.
What is truly amazing is how many liberals regard this as a news source. They don’t realize that most news is not inherently funny and it is the interjected sarcasm or editing that makes it so (when, of course, it actually is). More than ever, the target is conservatives because that is the threat to liberalism; when liberal pieces are used, they actually ARE funny in their unedited version.
As soon as liberals learn to see just how pitiful it is to rely on this sort of stuff for their information, the road to recovery can be finally embarked upon.