Jon Stewart rips ‘meat bag’ Sean Hannity in ‘cancel tradition’ rant

Jon Stewart returned to The Each day Present on Monday night to put into the conservative media ecosystem in a tour de force rant about so-called cancel tradition and censorship hypocrisy, reserving explicit animosity for Fox Information host Sean Hannity, whom he unforgettably branded “a meat bag help system for a brow vein”.

The liberal comedy icon has returned to the Comedy Central present that made his title in time for the 2024 election 12 months and devoted his newest monologue to what he described as “a complete business dedicated to complaining about not being allowed to say the issues they are saying on a regular basis.”

He continued: “The concept there may be an all-pervasive, omnipotent menace to free speech referred to as ‘cancel tradition’ has grow to be a central tenet of recent conservatism.

“They rejoice their being silenced at conferences. They rejoice their being silenced on podcasts and streaming shops. They rejoice their being silenced with over 700 e-book titles about being cancelled.

“Why are there so many of those f***ing books?! Until you don’t know, no one reads anymore…”

Mr Stewart went on to show an unlimited assortment of actual books written by conservative media figures, from The Struggle on Woke by Alan Dershowitz to Woke, Inc by Vivek Ramaswamy.

“Conservatives have a complete business dedicated to complaining about not being allowed to say the issues they are saying on a regular basis! Their victimhood is your entire model!” he noticed.

The anchor made his level by exhibiting a montage of Fox hosts together with Dana Perino, Jesse Watters and Laura Ingraham complaining about being prevented from utilizing explicit phrases due to alleged sensitivity issues, solely to then overtly use them anyway at a later date.

“They’re so stuffed with s*** that Sean Hannity can say, with a sq. head, ‘I’m not the type of man who will get outraged.’ Sean Hannity!” Mr Stewart joked.

“He’s mainly only a meat bag help system for a brow vein!”

He continued: “Look, it’s completely true that in our trendy, social media-driven society, our interactions are incentivised and monetised for outrage and it’s f***ing exhausting for everybody.

“[But] we’re not censored or silenced. We’re surrounded by and inundated with extra speech than has ever existed within the historical past of communication and it’s all weaponised by skilled outrage hunters of all stripes scouring the globe for commencement speech snippets, offhand feedback throughout promotional excursions, out of context comedy bits, lame advertising and marketing concepts, or any phrases and phrases they imagine they’ll latch onto to generate, monetize clicks.

“Outrage is the engine of our trendy media economic system.”

He concluded by observing that there’s one significant drive for cancellation in trendy American tradition and its title is former president Donald Trump.

Mr Stewart gave as his instance Liz Cheney, the ex-Wyoming Republican congresswoman who has successfully been excommunicated from her occasion after voicing her opposition to Mr Trump and his MAGA motion and by main the Home inquiry into January 6, as clear a case of cancellation as you may ask for.