Media So Obsessed With Trump Trial That Jon Stewart Can't Help Ridiculing Them
As former President Donald Trump's trial continues in a Manhattan courtroom on criminal charges of falsifying business records to cover up a hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels shortly before the 2016 presidential election, the quasi-official Democrat media continue to beat it to death.
On Monday’s edition of "The Daily" Show on Comedy Central, host Jon Stewart mocked the media — principally, CNN and MSNBC — for their obsession with the trial and ad nauseam preoccupation with everything Trump.
Seriously, are we going to follow this guy to court every [bleep] day? Are you trying to make this O.J.? It's not even a chase! He's commuting. So, the media's first attempt, the very first attempt on the first day at self-control failed. And I'm sorry to say that it didn't — I'm sorry, hold on, we're getting breaking news.
Stewart played a clip of a perfect example, in which CNN's Jake Tapper interrupted his guest.
I'm sorry to interrupt, I've just— one second. I apologize. We're just showing the first image of Donald Trump from inside the courtroom. It's a still photograph that we're showing there. Just want to make sure our viewers know what they're looking at.
"The Daily Show" host then mocked Tapper and CNN into the middle of next week.
Yes, for our viewers who are just waking up from a 30-year coma, this is what Donald Trump has looked like every day for the past 30 years.
Stewart suggested that the hush-money trial faces two tests.
This trial will obviously be a test of the fairness of the American legal system. But it's also a test of the media's ability to cover Donald Trump in a responsible way, a task they have acknowledged they have performed poorly in the past.
From that point on, it was brutal— deliciously so.
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Stewart ... played a montage of several MSNBC and CNN personalities lamenting media coverage of Trump. John Heilemann claimed it was “irresponsible” to “give Donald Trump hours and hours of free air time,” while Audie Cornish claimed, “All of us have learned some very valuable lessons from the last couple of years in delineating what's significant, what's important.”
After the montage, Stewart returned to introduce another series of clips, “So brave. Well done. And I think for this trial, we will see the seeds of that introspection bear fruit. Or we will learn that learning curves are for p*ssies.”
With the exception of one clip from a local news analyst, it was exclusively MSNBC. It included multiple claims that we are witnessing “the trial of the century” and the return of the classic, “The legal walls, closing in around Donald Trump.”
The talk show host and comedian set up one bit perfectly, suggesting that while the trial is newsworthy, coverage should be limited to newsworthy aspects only.
Perhaps if we limit the coverage to the issues at hand, and try not to create an all-encompassing spectacle of the most banal of details, perhaps that would help.
Brilliantly, he then played a clip of Jake Tapper talking with a local political analyst about Trump's motorcade arriving at the Manhattan courtroom, in which a reporter waxed idiotic that the former president was “arriving at this intersection of American history with defiance.”
Finally, in my favorite blast of the segment, Stewart was devastatingly hilarious.
Anyway, coming up, more of our three-part interview with a guy who nearly saw Donald Trump in the courtroom. So, we have a photograph — it’s freaking me out, that picture — we have a photograph, we have eyewitness accounts, but do we have anything in a pastel?
That, ladies and gentlemen, was just too good.
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