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I do miss Jon. What's the deal leaving in an anal sex reference but bleeping "bullshit"? Censorship rules on TV are really twisted.

Something about Jon has changed and I can't put my finger on it. He seems a little awkward somehow or uncomfortable. Been noticing it since before the elections. I just keep getting the feeling something is wrong in his life.

I've been getting the same feeling - not sure what it is.

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Jon's voice on his show was created by a process and team of particular writers, including him. That might be what you're detecting. I remember during ther writer's strike several years ago - those episodes were very weird and goofy.

So what you're saying is that Stewart's insight into the inner workings of Trump's mind is because he himself was like Donald Trump in that he made you want to believe all his own bullshit, but when left to his own devices, fails?

And that his own advice to the media, to break away from the Donald (The Stewart), is mirrored in all of the success of the writers that created him -- who broke away from The Stewart?

Errrr... wat?

Pretty simple. He's a bit out of his element, being on someone else's show, and he's a bit rusty, after quitting his show a year and a half ago.

Certainly even Dream can see beyond the elementary.

Nothing is ever simple. I'm just not properly explaining what I was saying -- Jon Stewart went off and did his public speaking, crowd organizing thing with this belief in something that he couldn't quite define. He lost his mojo, in a way, saw that he was naked, bereft of his staff. Any talking/figure head with a staff of writers or information feeders can be comparable to other leaders of a similar make up. Trump and Stewart are reality tv stars of a similar make up.

Dag suggested that the writers of the Daily Show are what created Jon Stewart as we know hom, and so I ran with the idea that he, like the figurehead and reality star, Donald Trump, are products of other people's opinions -- this, when left to their own devices, while successful entertainers, they realize the emperor's clothes are transparent and now they have to rely on their own smaller slice of knowledge. Not that Stewart is dumb, but Stewart without writers and correspondents, is a similar archetype to Trump. Stewart's writers and correspondents, including the man whose show he is on in this clip, are akin to the media that Donald Trump treats like his writing staff. But instead of leaving the Daily Show, Trump is leaving *most* of the media, revealing he is not as knowledgeable without his sources.

Anyway, I was following the logic as laid down by dag's logic for why Jon isn't as funny or put together. I also know that good leaders put themselves in other people's shoes before giving advice to other leaders. Stewart MUST do this because he is a decent figurehead, but Trump doesn't -- that's why the media questions him on what biographies he is reading; leaders are supposed to put themselves into their rivals AND heros shoes as a matter of critical self analysis -- so, Stewart is speaking to the media almost as if he is also putting himself in Trump's shoes and speaking about how his own writing staff and correspondent's left him and succeeded.

Stewart has a 4 year contract with HBO. He will have the structure and writing teams he needs. Trump should utilize the media, including books and newspapers, and follow the subtext Jon laid out here.

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