Jon Stewart Tears Into ‘Meat Bag’ Hannity, Fox News ‘Outrage Hunters’: ‘Their Victimhood Is the Entire Brand’
Daily Show host Jon Stewart tore into Fox News hosts Sean Hannity, Jesse Watters, Laura Ingraham, and Dana Perino on Monday, accusing them of operating “an entire industry devoted to complaining about not being allowed to say the things they say all the time.”
“The idea that there is an all-pervasive, all-powerful threat to free speech called ‘cancel culture’ has become a central tenet of modern conservatism,” said Stewart on his show:
They celebrate their being silenced at conferences. They celebrate their being silenced on podcasts and streaming outlets. They celebrate their being silenced with over 700 book titles about being canceled. Why are there so many of these fucking books?! Unless you don’t know, nobody reads anymore, and by the way, if you already read “A War on Woke” and “Woke, Inc,” you’re really not gonna learn anything from “Woke Warriors.” Conservatives have an entire industry devoted to complaining about not being allowed to say the things they say all the time! Their victimhood is the entire brand!
Stewart went on to play a series of clips showing Hannity, Watters, Ingraham, and Perino complaining about cancel culture and not being able to say certain things anymore.
“They’re so full of shit that Sean Hannity can say with a square head, ‘I’m not the kind of guy who gets outraged.’ Sean Hannity!” snapped Stewart. “He’s basically just a meat bag support system for a forehead vein!”
He continued:
Look, it is absolutely true that in our modern, social media-driven society, our interactions are incentivized and monetized for outrage and it is fucking exhausting for everyone. But contrary to your conservative book industry, the outrage isn’t just coming from the left, it’s coming from the left, the right, for the right, for the left, and the Swifties, and YA readers, and anybody who dares to lift their head up to say fucking anything! We are not censored or silenced. We are surrounded by and inundated with more speech than has ever existed in the history of communication and it is all weaponized by professional outrage hunters of all stripes scouring the globe for graduation speech snippets, offhand comments during promotional tours, out of context comedy bits, lame marketing ideas, or any words and phrases they believe they can latch onto to generate, monetize clicks. Outrage is the engine of our modern media economy, and sometimes someone loses a job or something else happens like that that should never fucking happen.
Stewart concluded, “But, contrary to conservatives’ victimization complex, there is no organized cancel culture conspiracy where even the slightest misstep can 100% get someone on the right canceled. Actually, there is one.”
The Daily Show host then played a news clip of former Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney being kicked out of the Wyoming Republican Party for opposing former President Donald Trump.
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