Here’s some advice I wish I’d listened to years ago, “Make sure your heroes are all dead because otherwise, eventually, they will be nothing but disappointment, disillusionment, and disgraced.” Honestly, this one hurts.
When he pinned a medal on a Nazi at Disneyland1, I thought, “Maybe he doesn’t know it’s a nazi…”.
As time went on and Tucker Carlson moved to the left of Stewart, I thought, “Maybe it’s the restrictions of his being on Apple TV.”
But now this… He destroys years worth of integrity built from being fairly honest on the daily show for decades by dismissing the mountains of evidence that have been documented in the open source Pizzagate investigation with simply the least damning line about pizza from 30,000 damning emails.
If you are not familiar with Pizzagate, please allow me to break it down for you.
From the beginning-
Back in 2016, someone gained access to John Podesta’s personal email account and downloaded them all. They then turned those emails over to Wikileaks, who in turn, published all of them. Thousands of people then dove into the emails in the hopes of proving that the DNC had cheated Bernie out of a successful presidential campaign. They found the proof they needed, but while digging, they also came up with other, far more sinister theories.
If you have ever bought or sold drugs, then you have probably heard really bad impromptu code used to hide the transaction from anyone listening on the phone or recording in person and there is always that one guy who just sucks at making up code. Like the guy trying to buy shrooms saying something like, “Hey, I need an ounce of shrooms for my… um… pizza I want to order from Dominos.”
Well, the Podesta emails were filled with exchanges like this-
“The realtor found a handkerchief (I think it has a map that seems pizza-related. Is it yorus? [sic] They can send it if you want. I know you’re busy, so feel free not to respond if it’s not yours or you don’t want it.”
Podesta replies:
“It’s mine, but not worth worrying about.”
What the hell is a pizza related map doing on a handkerchief in an empty house and why is everyone concerned that it might be his and wanting to return it to him? And why would he say it’s nothing to worry about?
This lead online sleuths to go through the entire email archive looking for more clues and weirdness which then lead to a pizza parlor on a street in Washington DC where the logos of every business on the street were known symbols used by pedopiles to advertise what they were into. Like literally, they all matched up to an FBI memo that listed the symbols2. The pizza place was owned by one Jaime Elephantis which is grammatically incorrect French for “I love small children.” The pizza place right next door to Ping Pong Pizza is Besta Pizza and their logo was literally the “Boy lover” symbol. Also, kinda weird to have 2 pizza places next to each other on a street.
This all lead to an MSM piece done by Ben Swann which instantly, think that same night, destroyed his career and made every bit of online web presence he had built up over the years get disappeared by 6am the next morning.
Now, 10 short years later and the Epstein files have basically vindicated the Pizzagate investigation.
This is where we stand today. A known pedophile with a network that included the vast majority of America’s political elites, A list celebrities, and academic intelligencia fakes his death and the entire, pathetic, FBI investigation gets released showing that there really is a cabal in charge of this country and its media that uses pedophilia as a loyalty program to vet its many member and now is when Jon Stewart decides to throw his hat in the ring to dismiss all of this evidence with one cherry picked line from one cherry picked email?
No, I can not justify or forgive that level of bullshit fuckery. Sorry. I am now embarrassed to have ever thought of him as a hero.
So this, my friends, is why you should always choose your heroes post mortem. It is the only way to be safe.
https://wikileaks.org/wiki/FBI_pedophile_symbols
The disillusionment you feel regarding certain media icons reminds me of how some amongst the bewildered herd still value agencies like the CIA. Stockwell(ex CIA) described it fairly accurately once:
"At the end of World War II, we were militarily dominant, economically dominant, and we enjoyed a remarkable international credibility. With a modicum of restraint and self-confidence we could have laid the foundations of lasting world peace. Instead, we panicked, exaggerating the challenge of a Soviet Union which had just lost 70,000 villages, I,7l0 towns, 4.7 million houses, and 20 million people in the war. We set its dread KGB as a model for our own alter ego in foreign affairs. In the words of the Hoover Commission report of 1954:
There are no rules in such a game. Hitherto acceptable norms of human conduct do not apply. If the U.S. is to survive, long-standing American concepts of "fair play" must be reconsidered. We must develop effective espionage and counterespionage services. We must learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies by more clever, more sophisticated and more effective methods than those used against us. It may become necessary that the American people be acquainted with, understand and support this fundamentally repugnant philosophy.
It was a tragic, fallacious thesis. Our survival as a free people has obviously not been dependent on the fumbling activities of the clandestine services of the CIA, but on the dynamism of our economic system and the competitive energies of our people. Nor was Hoover's philosophy "fundamentally repugnant." Rather, it was irresistible, for it created an exhilarating new game where all social and legal restraints were dissolved. Cast as super-patriots, there were no rules, no controls, no laws, no moral restraints, and no civil rights for the CIA game-players. No individual in the world would be immune to their depradations, friends could be shafted and enemies destroyed, without compunction. It was an experiment in amorality, a real-life fantasy island, to which presidents, legislators, and the American people could escape, vicariously.
Not surprisingly, the mortals of the CIA were unable to cope with such responsibility. Over the years, a profound, arrogant, moral corruption set in. Incompetence became the rule. The clandestine services, established a solid record of failure: failure to produce good intelligence; failure to run successful covert operations; and failure to keep its operatives covert. And its directors also failed to respect the sacred responsibility they were given of extra-constitutional, covert license. Eventually, like any secret police, they became abusive of the people: they drugged American citizens; opened private mail; infiltrated the media with secret propaganda and disinformation; lied to our elected representatives; and set themselves above the law and the Constitution.
But our attachment to the CIA's clandestine services nevertheless seems to be unshaken. We still argue that, no matter what it does, the CIA is essential to our national security."