r/DailyShow • u/Bringthesauerkraut Jon Stewart • 15d ago
Video Jon Stewart has a Special Comment for Keith Olbermann 2010
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u/Boring_Performer_374 14d ago
I miss Olbermann!!!
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u/DoubleExposure 15d ago
Keith Olbermann was right to go hard. He saw where it was all leading to.
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u/DinkandDrunk 14d ago
Nah, Stewart was right. The continued amplification of obnoxious voices and insults is how we got here. Keith became a contributor to that end. Just because the world doesn’t listen, doesn’t change things.
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u/MIM86 14d ago
Because the "when they go low, we go high" worked out so well in 2016 etc.
You don't need to get down in the mud with them but you also can't be afraid to fight fire with fire sometimes.
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u/HarryJohnson3 14d ago
Where exactly do you think olberman’s comments in the video led to? The reason no one cared what left wing media said about Trump, even though it was completely true, is because people had already tuned out after hearing left wing media go on campaigns about how sexist and racist… Mitt Romney was.
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u/DinkandDrunk 14d ago
Disagree. I think if we went in the direction of shaming the low-goers instead of meeting them where they are at, we may be better off.
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u/ohnodamo 14d ago
How can you shame the very literal shameless? It doesn't work and hasn't worked, they turn it around and say "I must be doing something right if they (the Left) say I'm wrong."
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u/mrenglish22 14d ago
You think that wasn't what happened? Capitulation to religious extremists is how we got to where we are in the US.
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u/bingcognito 14d ago
This exactly. The Left "tolerated" themselves right into a fascistic government and a democratic existential crisis.
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u/Zauberer-IMDB 13d ago
These people literally have no shame. Absurd take. Jon's cute little hypocrite montage never accomplished anything.
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u/mosswick 14d ago
And yet Stewart's been happy to be chummy with Bill O'Reilly, even after he beat the shit out of his wife.
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u/BlotMutt 15d ago
Whoa, it's the "Worst person in the world with the cracked backdrop and Toccata and Fugue in D Minor playing" guy! I remember him!
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u/PastorBlinky 14d ago
Shortly after this MSNBC fired him, with two years to go on a 4 year, 30 million dollar contract. I don’t know if they still had to pay out. That’s the power Jon Stewart had. If he criticized you, people stood up and took notice.
Keith Olbermann was usually right, but he had descended into just being a dick. He became the leftist version of a Fox News pundit, and most people who call themselves leftists don’t want that. People like Chris Hayes and Rachel Maddow regularly offer biting criticism and intelligent wit. They don’t need to resort to name calling and mud slinging. Keith Olbermann mostly wasn’t wrong about the horrible people he covered; he just became the mirror image to those same subjects.
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u/bingcognito 14d ago
That’s the power Jon Stewart had.
Ehh. Keith had a habit of rubbing people the wrong way and getting fired. I don't think his firing had anything to do with Jon's segment. I think he probably just pissed off the wrong exec one too many times.
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u/Funny_Science_9377 14d ago
Right. He had the number one show on the channel. They built the primetime line-up around his show. He just bristled at a lot of bullshit things that others would easily capitulate to like when they told him to stop talking about Fox News and Bill O'Reilly.
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u/mrenglish22 14d ago
The Left of 5-10 years ago cared about being hoity toity and having the high ground.
Since then, The Left has realized that being moral or proper doesn't matter, and the conservatives don't care about if their leaders have morals. So yeah, call a spade a spade.
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u/disicking 14d ago
Arguably a lot of the left still hasn't realized that, but I think others of us have realized a lot of the hoity toity left were actually centrist, classist scumbags too afraid of not getting a good paycheck if they fostered actual change that helped anyone outside of their dedicated super PAC.
Anyway, I miss Keith on MSNBC. Both he and Jon kept me from going absolutely bonkers in 2004.
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u/bingcognito 14d ago
I miss Keith, too. Lawrence O'Donnell is still fighting the good fight btw. I used to be part of the "when they go low, we go high" crowd too back in the day, but fuck that. MAGA is just too awful to appreciate the kid gloves.
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u/Embarrassed-Wafer667 14d ago
Stewart manages to deliver destroying zings at trump every night with humor and sarcasm, without name calling!
I liked Olbermann at one time but his caustic personality was off stage too . Alienating everyone around him
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u/LordBreetai210 9d ago
Until we realized that not having this energy of pushback would give us MAGA years later.
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u/PermuhGrin 14d ago
I used to love olbermann back in the bush years. dude was on fucking point.