Correspondent for 'The Daily Show' Likens His Job to 'Being a Marine'

Ward Clark reporting for RedState 

If one were to compile a list of people who are genuine heroes, there would be a lot of U.S. Marines on that list. And there probably wouldn't be many (as in, zero) Daily Show correspondents.

That isn't stopping Roy Wood Jr. from comparing his job as a Daily Show correspondent to being a U.S. Marine.

Roy Wood, Jr. once worked as a radio journalist. Now, he twists the news to fit a progressive agenda.

Wood, 44, has served as a “Daily Show” correspondent for eight years, a far-Left platform made famous by Jon Stewart. Wood recently announced he’s leaving “The Daily Show” to pursue other projects, in part because Comedy Central wouldn’t commit to him becoming the program’s new host.

Wood seems at peace with the decision, in part because late-night TV as we know it may not be around much longer.

Late-night TV as we know it probably won't be around much longer precisely because of biased lefties like Roy Wood Jr., and that's for sure and for certain. 

Here's the money quote:

Wood still has warm feelings for late-night’s hard-left racket, adding the satirical heavy lifting is significant. In fact, he compared being a late-night contributor on “The Daily Show” to serving one’s country in the Variety piece.

“No one wants to be the show that has to talk about the tough times,” Wood says, “Everybody wants to be the show that counterprograms tough times.” At “Daily,  he adds, “we are more like the Marines. We are running in head first into some of this shit.”

"...[M]ore like the Marines," he says. Mr. Wood's entire knowledge of the Marine Corps evidently comes from watching Gomer Pyle, USMC reruns, because he sure doesn't seem to have much grasp on what Marines actually do, if he thinks his life as a progressive news spokesdroid in any way compares. But even though I was Army myself, I could list some examples for him.

I could tell him about Gunnery Sergeant John Basilone, who was the only Marine in WW2 to be awarded both the Medal of Honor (Guadalcanal) and the Navy Cross (posthumously, Iwo Jima). He volunteered, after his War Bond tour, to not only train new Marines but to lead them into battle once again, falling on Iwo Jima while leading from the front.

I could tell him about Sergeant Major Daniel Daly, one of the two Marines to be awarded not one but two Medals of Honor, and who is best remembered for the WW1 battle of Belleau Wood, when he famously shouted at his men, "Come on, you sons of bitches, do you want to live forever?"

I could tell him about Lieutenant General Lewis "Chesty" Puller, one of the Corps' greatest heroes, who led Marines in the Pacific throughout WW2 and again in Korea; his famous quote from the Chosin Reservoir battle was reportedly, “We’ve been looking for the enemy for some time now. We finally found him. We are surrounded. That simplifies things.”

I could tell him about my uncle Carl, who was a gyrene PFC when he took a Japanese bayonet through the shoulder on Iwo Jima in 1945, only a few miles from where Gunnery Sergeant Basilone fell.

And I could tell him that he isn't fit to scrape dog excrement off of any of those Marines' field boots.

This is why Americans are losing faith in the media. Biased, even bigoted reporting and just plain blindness like this are why, yes, late-night television as we know it may well be going the way of the dodo. It's been a long time since Johnny Carson held the #1 chair on late-night TV, handling every guest with grace, humor, and charm, no matter who they were.