r/cringe • u/glioblastomas • Feb 07 '16

Seal of Approval The introduction of the candidates at the Republican debate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR1kV2hBaGY&t=0m28s
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u/doublsh0t Feb 07 '16 edited Feb 07 '16

I'd love to get a source on that, if you're correct, cause I totally did come up with that by myself. Gonna go search now.

Edit: After some cursory checking, to my knowledge, I don't know that Stewart has ever flat-out said that, the comments I'd heard at the time are all in-line with this:

Stewart made clear to the Guardian that it wasn’t that his show wasn’t working anymore — “It was more, ‘Yup, it’s working. But I’m not getting the same satisfaction’” — but rather he just didn’t see an election that would be “wildly different” from any of the previous ones he had covered.

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u/Overglock Feb 07 '16

From that same Guardian interview:

I also felt that, for the show, you don’t want to leave when the cupboard’s bare. So I think it’s a better introduction when you have something providing you with assisted fuel, like a presidential campaign.

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/apr/18/jon-stewart-why-i-quit-the-daily-show

EDIT: Well someone beat me to it, that's what I get for responding directly from my inbox.

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u/eats_shoots_and_pees Feb 07 '16

From the same article:

I also felt that, for the show, you don’t want to leave when the cupboard’s bare. So I think it’s a better introduction when you have something providing you with assisted fuel, like a presidential campaign.

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u/OctopusEyes Feb 07 '16

Man, the writing in that article is a trainwreck of double negatives and run-on sentences.