As we bid #JonVoyage tonight, we take a look back at some of the greatest sports moments he’s had on The Daily Show over the years. With Jon Stewart’s Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Letterman and The Newsroom, I just have to ask the so-called establishment “Why must you take EVERY show that us wonkish media nerds LOVE this year?
It seems like America is making the first move in the Totalitarian’s playbook. “Step 1- eliminate free-thinking intellectuals.” This write-up originally ran on June 11th, 2014. Enjoy:
Jon Stewart, or I guess more specifically, Jordan Klepper is late to the party on the NCAA Football union story. At least in terms of giving it in-depth treatment. Since the new year began, we’ve had plenty of coverage.
Kain Colter’s “the NCAA acts like a dictatorship” soundbite made The Colbert Report a few months ago. Northwestern Coach Pat Fitzgerald’s spring college football media session made The Daily Show. The NCAA football union battle in big time college athletics has been on every channel in every medium all the time from February to April.
And then the narrative actually went away for awhile, until last night:
Like anyone who consumes the news and especially sports news, I’ve had enough of the NCAA football union story, so I’m wondering why they gave it the treatment last night; finally. They briefly brought up the Ed O’Bannon settlement, but didn’t explain how the two cases are related. The players, led by O’Bannon, settled with the video game company this week, while the case against the NCAA begins trial this week.
Still Jon Stewart calls it fair! Just like he always does.
Watch him tear the NCAA, in general, a new one here. That’s really good stuff. Also, I recently had an exclusive with Christian Laettner, and he had a very interesting take on unionization movement and the NCAA lawsuit.
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