Jon Stewart defending Sarah Palin is not something you see every day, but the media’s obsession with her old emails necessitated a Daily Show rant. In a segment called “P-mail,” Stewart ripped the press for providing “full team coverage” of the arbitrary release date of Palin’s non-urgent messages. Stewart notes, accurately, that the media harps on Palin for a sense of inflated self-importance, yet behavior like this contributes directly to it … Jon Stewart on Palin Emails It is absurd, really. At this point, all the classic Sarah Palin moments have been found and scrutinized to no end. What did they expect to discover?! “For some reason, the media went DEFCON 1,” Stewart said, rolling clips of news outlets disappointed by an apparent lack of any major scandals. In one segment, CNN describes an email from someone complaining, “Palin was spotted with Trig in a car not wearing an approved car seat.” “That story better end with Palin getting out of the car and beating the woman with a tire iron,” Stewart said. “Otherwise, why waste our time?” Seriously. She resigned two years ago and is not running for office now. Let it go … or at least start digging through Michele Bachmann emails.
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Jon Stewart on Sarah Palin Email Coverage: Come On, Media!
