Jon Stewart Price-Checks The Real Cost Of Tucker Carlson’s Bootlicking
deadline.comJon Stewart conceded last night that he has some lessons to learn from a Russian-hopping “journalist” like Tucker Carlson. Chastened by Daily Show critics who snarked about the “both-sides-isms” of Stewart’s return to his old late night desk last week, a faux-humbled Stewart set out to learn whatever he could from his newfound mentor-du-jour, the Putin-chatting Tucker Carlson. “Where do I go to study the particulars of unquestioning propaganda?,” Stewart said on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, setting up a bit that had more than a little of the old bite. “I would need mentorship!
Saints be praised, for Professor Tucker Aloysius Mayflower Kennebunkport Backgammon Carlson III has arrived.” Watching Carlson’s now-familiar Moscow reports extolling the virtues of Russian subway systems, locking grocery carts and cheap food prices, Stewart vivisected Carlson with some long-simmering glee.
When the former Fox News host gushed that Russia’s locking shopping carts (which, by the way, are available in the U.S. too) keep the carts from making their way to homeless encampments, Stewart deadpanned, “I know I’ve said this before, but you’re such a d*ck”.
From there, Stewart schools Carlson on those cheap Russian groceries – which Carlson said would radicalize any American. “And it will radicalize you unless you understand basic economics,” Stewart responded. “See, $104 for groceries sounds like a great bargain unless you realize Russians earn less than $200 a week.
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