The Truth about Jon "Stewart"

Jon "Stewart" who was born Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz [1], wants people to believe he is some kind of political "moderate" when in reality he has admitted to Fox News executive Roger Ailes in private and on CNN's Larry King Live that he is an outright socialist. [2, 3] None of this should be surprising as he has idolized Socialist Party presidential candidates Eugene Debs and Norman Thomas since childhood. [4]

"I think I would say I'm more of a socialist" - Jon Stewart, 2000 [5]

Stewart admitted to Chris Wallace in an interview that he is ideologically biased and tells half-truths.

"My comedy is informed by an ideological background. There's no question about that. [...] Oh, there's no question that I don't tell the full story." - Jon Stewart, 2011 [6]

His far-left views were fully exposed when he called Harry Truman a war criminal for bombing Hiroshima. [7] While his cult-like followers are clearly getting his message when they show up with extremist signs to his so-called "moderate" rally. [8]

Sign from Stewart's "Rally to Restore Sanity"

Being a full-fledged member of the "1%", Stewart's liberal hypocrisy is demonstrated by his personal fortune, which includes an annual salary of $15 million and an estimated net worth of $80 million. This includes three opulent mansions whose combined value is $12.8 million. Using a trick of the 'one-percenters', Stewart purchased his properties through private trusts (named after his pets) to avoid public scrutiny and diminish his estate tax liability. [9]

Stewart's Two lakefront mansions in Red Bank, NJ worth $7 million

And, if only 'Occupy Wall Street' knew [10], Stewart's brother Lawrence Leibowitz is the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) Euronext. [11]

His political bias to the Democratic party is shown by his political donations to disgraced Democratic politician Anthony Weiner. [12, 13]

All of this explains why studies have shown that Stewart's 'The Daily Show' is #1 with "Super Democrats". [14]

References:
[1] Goodbye Mr. Leibowitz, Hello Jon Stewart (The Vindicator, June 25, 2001)
[2] Roger Ailes: Jon Stewart Told Me He's Basically a Socialist (Breitbart, May 22, 2012)
[3] Speaking Truth to Power? Jon Stewart Back in 2000: I'm a 'Socialist' (NewsBusters, May 24, 2012)
[4] Jon Stewart Bashes Ann Coulter, But Puffs Nader, and Eugene Debs? (NewsBusters, November 9, 2007
[5] Jon Stewart Looks Back at Election 2000 (CNN, December 15, 2000)
[6] Jon Stewart Tells Chris Wallace Fox News Is Biased -- But Rest of Media Aren't (NewsBusters, June 19, 2011)
[7] Jon Stewart: Truman's a War Criminal for Bombing Hiroshima (NewsBusters, April 30, 2009)
[8] The Rally To Restore Sanity Didn’t Restore Civility (Houston Chronicle, October 31, 2010)
[9] Jon Stewart mocks 'rich' Romney while outpacing him in wealth (The Daily Caller, June 17, 2012)
[10] Occupy Wall Street (Discover the Networks)
[11] NYSE Executive Is Quizzed — About His Brother, Jon Stewart (The Wall Street Journal, May 11, 2010)
[12] Jon Stewart Political Donations (NewsMeat.com)
[13] Flashback: One Year Ago, Weiner's Resignation (Breitbart, June 16, 2012)
[14] Voters' viewing habits: Top 20 shows among certain groups (The Washington Post, August 29, 2012)

Skeptical Science: "Drown Them Out"

In March of 2012, the climate alarmist website Skeptical Science had their forums "hacked" and the contents posted online. In these it was revealed that Skeptical Science members are organizing themselves into eco-strike squads to "drown out" those who do not accept their alarmist positions,

"I posted over at Politico just recently. Hey, we can tag team it a bit if you like, use time zone differences." - Glenn Tamblyn [Skeptical Science], February 10, 2011

"I think this is a highly effective method of dealing with various blogs and online articles where these discussions pop up. Flag them, discuss them and then send in the troops to hammer down what are usually just a couple of very vocal people. It seems like lots of us are doing similar work, cruising comments sections online looking for disinformation to crush. I spend hours every day doing exactly this. If we can coordinate better and grow the "team of crushers" then we could address all the anti-science much more effectively." - Rob Honeycutt [Skeptical Science], February 11, 2011

"Rob, Your post is music to my ears. I've been advocating the need to create a "crusher crew" for quite some time. I was not however able to get much traction on it with fellow environmental activists here in South Carolina or nationally. Like you, I spend (much to my wife's chagrin) many hours each day posting comments on articles. One of haunts was the USA Today website [...] The bottom line, would you be willing to patrol articles posted on the USA Today website?" - John Hartz [Skeptical Science], February 11, 2011

This started a new forum discussion entitled, "Crusher Crew".

"Badgersouth [John Hartz] and I were just discussing the potential of setting up a coordinated "Crusher Crew" where we could pull our collective time and knowledge together in order to pounce on overly vocal deniers on various comments sections of blogs and news articles." - Rob Honeycutt [Skeptical Science], February 11, 2011

"May I suggest first on our list as being the *#1 Science Blog* "Watts up with that"? They get a few people come there to engage from time to time but rarely a coordinated effort." - Robert Way [Skeptical Science], February 11, 2011

"I think it might be better to start out with smaller fish. Build a community and a team. Find some methods and strategies that work. Then start moving up the denier food chain with our targets set on WUWT. I could see this expanding into a broad team of 100 or more people (outside the scope of this SkS forum of course). [...] We just need to raise our collective voices to drown them out. I would venture to guess that most people here know of 4 or 5 regulars on comments sections that would be interested in coordinating their efforts. I know probably 10 or 20 people who would like to help with this." - Rob Honeycutt [Skeptical Science], February 11, 2011

This eco-strike squad was highly endorsed by John Cook,

"The Rapid Response Network would be a good way to coordinate this kind of activity, identifying new articles, logging responses, supporting each other. Can i suggest if a group engage in this, that they use the RRN as beta testers to he'll me develop and refine the system?" - John Cook [Skeptical Science], February 11, 2011

References:
From the Skeptical Science "leak": Interesting stuff about generating and marketing "The Consensus Project" (Tom Nelson, March 23, 2012)
Skeptical Science hacked, private user details publicly posted online (Skeptical Science, March 25, 2011)

Skeptical Science: Too Inaccurate for Joe Romm

In March of 2012, the climate alarmist website Skeptical Science had their forums "hacked" and the contents posted online. In these it was revealed that Skeptical Science was found to be even too inaccurate for fellow alarmist Joe Romm of Climate Progress,

"Just got this email from Joe Romm: You must do more post vetting. More errors are creeping into posts and it will start making people like me wary of using them." - John Cook [Skeptical Science], December 2, 2011

This was met with both admission and denial,

"...I somewhat agree with Romm. There does seem to be a perpensity of us towards producing masss volumes of articles when I feel sometimes we should be spending more time critiquing." - Robert Way [Skeptical Science], December 2, 2011

"I am pretty much done reading Romm. His knee-jerk attacks on anything remotely contradictory to his own narrative as "flawed" are irksome in the extreme." - thingsbreak [Skeptical Science], December 3, 2011

"I don't care for Romm either, [...] For the sake of accuracy, we can afford to wait until the heavy hitters have weighed in, we don't have to pretend to an authority we don't have." - nealjking [Skeptical Science], December 3, 2011

"Romm is waspish and curt, [...] but I have noticed that SkS tends to run into trouble when we do our own analysis." - Albatross (Julian Brimelow) [Skeptical Science], December 3, 2011

"I think our own analysis needs to be vetted externally or by those absolutely qualified on the subject matter prior to being put out there." - Robert Way [Skeptical Science], December 3, 2011

"Romm was the one to rubbish the Schmittner study. He got burnt. Tough titties." - Rob Painting [Skeptical Science], December 3, 2011

"Maybe Romm is getting a touch jealous of SkS's rising fame." - Rob Honeycutt [Skeptical Science], December 3, 2011

References:
From the Skeptical Science "leak": Interesting stuff about generating and marketing "The Consensus Project" (Tom Nelson, March 23, 2012)
Skeptical Science hacked, private user details publicly posted online (Skeptical Science, March 25, 2011)
Alarmism or Not? Joe Romm and the 'Crying Wolf' Dilemma (Watts Up With That?, May 1, 2012)