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Jon Stewart Calls Media Out For Trump Portrayal

In a CNN interview with Jake Tapper, retired comedian Jon Stewart skewered the main stream media for its portrayal of President Donald Trump as “some incredible supervillain” who is a threat to democracy.

Stewart said that the real threat to American democracy is “the idea that power is its own reward, whether it be in the financial industry or in government” and granting “amnesty to people that are doing things that we would prefer, even if that means that they’re slightly undemocratic.”

The Real Cost of Inflation

Last week most of us saw at least a brief film clip of Arizona Democrat Kyrsten Sinema being followed into a bathroom stall by a group of unhinged activists intent on shaming her for her lack of support for Joe Biden’s $3.5 trillion spending bill. The activists first confronted her in her classroom while she was teaching at Arizona State University, but later followed her through an ASU hallway and right to a bathroom stall.

A Weekend of Weird #1: NBC Reporter Spins Up Alternative Chant

For about 19 years of my career in journalism, I made at least part of my income covering NASCAR races around the country for my own motorsports weekly. Not once, however, did I ever get to experience a NASCAR event from the much rowdier “fan side” over in the grandstands. I was always on the more mundane “working side” in the infield, the press room, and in the pit area.