{"id":565,"date":"2016-05-12T07:25:30","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T13:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/?p=565"},"modified":"2016-05-12T07:26:05","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T13:26:05","slug":"jon-stewart-has-made-millions-in-america-but-isnt-sure-its-a-great-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/2016\/05\/jon-stewart-has-made-millions-in-america-but-isnt-sure-its-a-great-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Stewart has made millions in America but isn&#8217;t sure it&#8217;s a great country"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/529036884\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 77.609428% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/529036884?et=bAXHYHu_RC5rvChf62-JKg&amp;viewMoreLink=on&amp;sig=_ajeIeg_DYKKDuwST4cyhP7eLfl_ejLpJXywsOqHMgk=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"461\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Jon Stewart has delighted liberal audiences for quite some time and what he said recently will no doubt thrill them once more.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Since abandoning his post at <em>The Daily Show <\/em>on Comedy Central, Stewart has been a bit reclusive and hasn\u2019t said much about the 2016 presidential election. But he has emerged with a doozie.<\/p>\n<p>Obama pal David Axelrod invited Stewart to be on his podcast (he has a podcast?) \u201cThe Axe Files with David Axelrod,\u201d (Of course it\u2019s called that.) The subject of Donald Trump came up pretty quickly and Stewart immediately whined about his campaign slogan, \u201cMake America Great Again:\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWhen was America great? What is this time that he speaks of? \u201881 to \u201882? Like, what are we talking about? And who took your country away from you? Who\u2019s country\u2026 Who\u2019s country is it? Take up the argument with the Founders. Take it up with the Age of Reason. That\u2019s \u2014 All men are created equal. That\u2019s f***ed the whole thing up.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thus sayeth the millionaire who was secured the freedom to make his fortune thanks to those Founding Fathers.<\/p>\n<p>Stewart then turned his ire towards conservatives whom he believes aren\u2019t much for equality:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAs far as I can tell, the conservative side, or the right side, they feel an ownership over America. They are the stewards of America. They are its forbears\u2026 Republicans, conservatives love America. They just hate, like, 50 percent of the people living in it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He also thinks conservatives are hypocritical when it comes to political correctness:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe idea being, Muslims, \u2018Hey, man. All he\u2019s saying is they\u2019re evil and shouldn\u2019t be allowed in this country. He\u2019s just telling it like it is.\u2019 But God forbid you say happy holidays in December, it\u2019s f***ing war. So, who is it, exactly, who\u2019s sensitive here?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019m trying to think back to when America was great and all I can think is before Jon Stewart was a household name and young liberal America wasn\u2019t turning to his COMEDY show to get their \u201cnews.\u201d Those viewers are why social justice lunacy reigns on American college campuses today.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for grooming them, Jon.<\/p>\n<p>H\/T <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/jon-stewart-anti-american-mask-slip\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Hollywood in Toto<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The thoughts of the millionaire who was secured the freedom to make his fortune thanks to those Founding 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