Jon Stewart Quotes

[Hearing] was distinct from listening, which could only be achieved when hearing was combined with giving a shit.

And this, this, is their genius. Conservatives are not looking to make education more rigorous and informative, or science more empirical or verifiable, or voting more representative, or the government more efficient or effective. They just want all those things to reinforce their partisan, ideological, conservative viewpoint.

When did fact checking and journalism go their separate ways?

Newspapers abound, and though they have endured decades of decline in readership and influence, they can still form impressive piles if no one takes them out to the trash.

If everything is amplified, we hear nothing.

The bias of the mainstream media is toward sensationalism, conflict, and laziness.

Race is there. You're tire of hearing about it? Imagine how fucking exhausting it is living it.

If your regime is not strong enough to handle a joke, then you have no regime.