Late-night comedian Jon Stewart blasted right- and left-leaning news hosts in the \u201cnarcissistic media ecosystem\u201d for politicizing recent mass shootings by rushing to blame the other side.<\/p>\n
\u201cWho the f\u2013k cares?\u201d Stewart exclaimed Monday during \u201cThe Daily Show.\u201d \u201cThese mass shootings do not fit neatly into our left-right paradigm.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBut unfortunately, left-right paradigm is the only way our narcissistic media ecosystem sees anything anymore. That\u2019s the system they built, so it must fit into the right-left paradigm, because that binary is the foundation of all of their programming.\u201d<\/p>\n
Late-night comedian Jon Stewart blasted right- and left-leaning news hosts in the \u201cnarcissistic media ecosystem.\u201d The Daily Show<\/p>\n
During his fiery monologue, Stewart slammed cable news pundits for trying to pin the violence on one another after a deadly spurt of six mass shootings in just a 24-hour span over the weekend.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a mass shooting now like every couple of hours. Previously, the routine would be we express our shock; we express our sadness; we offer our thoughts and prayers; we spend a day, maybe two, arguing about the appropriateness of bringing up guns at all; and then we do nothing until the next time,\u201d Stewart said.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut as our politics becomes more polarized, even that learned cycle of helplessness has been replaced by a new, post-shooting pastime. That new pastime is, \u2018Was this one of yours?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Fellow late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel was yanked off air<\/a> earlier this month after he said right-wingers were politicizing Charlie Kirk\u2019s assassination \u2014 and falsely implied that the killer might have been a MAGA conservative.<\/p>\n \u201cWe hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it,\u201d Kimmel said during his monologue after the 31-year-old conservative activist was fatally shot<\/a> at a university event in Utah.<\/p>\n His show, \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live!,\u201d has since been reinstated by ABC and affiliate station owners Nexstar and Sinclair.<\/p>\n A man attacked a Michigan Latter-day Saints church on Sunday, opening fire and setting the building ablaze. AP<\/p>\n Stewart played a compilation of news hosts and commentators from lefty cable news channels like MSNBC to right-leaning ones like Fox News and Newsmax \u2014 all of whom rushed to paint the suspected shooters as political foes.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s America\u2019s new gender reveal tradition!\u201d Stewart said. \u201cThe game is so ubiquitous, now we often play it before we even know who the perpetrator is.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cNow call me old-fashioned, but I miss the good old days of mass shootings when networks took a principled stance to not shower attention on acts designed to get attention,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n The late-night host argued that news hosts are desperately trying to keep up with social media, where users are quick to hop on mass shootings with accusations of political motivation.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Michigan shooting suspect, Thomas Jacob Sanford, 40. Facebook\/Jake Sanford<\/p>\n