Slop.

This wave of "Iran is crazy and attacking everyone for no reason" propaganda is actually likely to be pretty effective. Most Americans don't actually "know" that they have military bases in all these countries and don't know what these military bases are for. So pretending Iran attacking these places "for no reason" is probably going to be quite effective, especially since most Americans have been trained to think that Iran is a "crazy rogue state" that is dangerous and does stupid things.

It lets them stroke their ego while being proudly ignorant, because they can imagine themselves "not being so stupid" and preserve their sense of superiority and western chauvinism. They get to be the "good guy" in their heads, even while the US bombs schools and hospitals, because Iran is "crazy" and therefore inherently evil and dangerous, because why not throw a bit of ableism in there as well?

Remember that this sort of thing isn't designed to be a logical reason for things, it is designed to elicit an emotional response in ignorant people so they refuse to actually go looking for the real answers and so they start to view reality as a threat, and remain contained in their safe little media bubble that keeps telling them USA #1 and all their enemies are evilbads who need to be destroyed, no thought required, only emotion, like cheering for the good guys in a Marvel movie.

Does Jon Stewart think the US launched its missiles at Iran from space

"Never believe that [reactionaries] are unaware of the absurdity of their replies."

How in the hell did Iran put their country next to all these American air bases in Qatar and Bahrain

I can't believe a wealthy liberal would do this.

Fucked up of them to attack all these countries for no reason at all.

Anyways fuck the talk show industrial complex, literally just propaganda

I still remember when he was doing lableak and the liberals were all coping that it was him doing a bit because of course he'd never say something so ridiculous.

If they bombed NYC, you'd start crying again Jon

Ugh I used to love him so much before his retirement, I cannot tell if it's just that he was always this bad or that he got worse as I got more radical.

Sure, I would prefer if they bombed the mainland US

This article needs wider viewing. Written just after Occupy Wall St in the Baffler it totally shreds the Neoliberal late night comic fraudulence at the heart of their material.

Excerpts:

“ Stewart and Colbert, in particular, have assumed the role of secular saints whose nightly shtick restores sanity to a world gone mad.

But their sanctification is not evidence of a world gone mad so much as an audience gone to lard morally, ignorant of the comic impulse’s more radical virtues. Over the past decade, political humor has proliferated not as a daring form of social commentary, but a reliable profit source.

Our high-tech jesters serve as smirking adjuncts to the dysfunctional institutions of modern media and politics, from which all their routines derive. Their net effect is almost entirely therapeutic: they congratulate viewers for their fine habits of thought and feeling while remaining careful never to question the corrupt precepts of the status quo too vigorously.

Our lazy embrace of Stewart and Colbert is a testament to our own impoverished comic standards. We have come to accept coy mockery as genuine subversion and snarky mimesis as originality. It would be more accurate to describe our golden age of political comedy as the peak output of a lucrative corporate plantation whose chief export is a cheap and powerful opiate for progressive angst and rage.”

God he's still on air? cancel all late night talk show trash already.

Rally to Restore Jon Stewart's Retirement

Jon could have said...

"Why didn't they immediately attack the US? Oh, that's right. We'd nuke them. Nuke them hard. Nuke them bad. Nuke them fast. Nuke them—" Jon realizes the his producer stage right has been manically gesturing a knife across the throat. Oops. They audience is thinking. In fact not only is there no laughter - the mood is like milk that's gone instantly and horribly sour. "Oh. You know what? That's really serious and kinda a big downer. I got a really good fart joke for you. So this guy..."

Disgusting

what's John Oliver's take on all this