This week’s Liberal Media Scream brings us another left-leaning weekend news magazine host urging a fellow liberal to get into politics and run for office, including the office of the president.
Last week, it was Chuck Todd egging on Al Gore to run again. “Why not you?” said Todd, to which Gore demurred.
This week, we had Jonathan Karl, hosting ABC’s This Week, suggest the same to comic and activist Jon Stewart, who was in Washington last week in his latest campaign for Gulf veterans.
Karl noted the career path of Volodymyr Zelensky, “a guy in Ukraine who is a comedian who had a very popular show, who is now a president of Ukraine.” Karl then added, “Is there any chance you run for office? I mean, you know, any office at all?”
From ABC’s This Week, hosted by Jonathan Karl:
JONATHAN KARL: I have heard you say — or say that you have thoughts in the past, you had given consideration of running for office. I think I have that correct. And, you know, look, we’ve had some precedent now. There’s a guy in Ukraine who is a comedian who had a very popular show, who is now a president of Ukraine. Some people think he’s a very good president. Is there any chance you’d run for office? I mean, you know, any office at all?
JON STEWART: There is a chance that when I go down, I’m going to come back down there to Washington, and I’m going join my brothers and sisters on the Capitol steps who have been sleeping out on fire watch. Rosie Torres of Burn Pits 360, Tim Jensen of Grunt Style, and anyone else who wants to go down there and join them on the Capitol steps. And I will join them, and we will stay there until the United States government does the right thing by the men and women who fought to protect it. That’s what I’m after.
KARL: All right, Jon Stewart, thanks a lot for joining us.
Brent Baker, vice president of research and publications for the Media Research Center, explains our weekly pick: “For the second week in a row, an instance of a journalist putting his personal passions ahead of good journalistic judgment. Jon Stewart is a hero to the Left for his aggressive and crass attacks on conservatives, and that seems to excite Karl, who wants Stewart to consider turning that fervor into a candidacy.”
Rating: THREE out of FIVE SCREAMS.
