{"id":1516,"date":"2005-04-29T04:46:25","date_gmt":"2005-04-29T11:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/04\/29\/glaad-praises-the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart\/"},"modified":"2005-04-29T04:46:25","modified_gmt":"2005-04-29T11:46:25","slug":"glaad-praises-the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1516","title":{"rendered":"GLAAD praises the &#039;Daily Show with Jon Stewart&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After I heard that Texas had banned same-sex couples or LGBT people from adopting children in desperate need of a loving home, I switched over to my favorite fake-news show,<em> The Daily Show with Jon Stewart<\/em> on <em>Comedy Central <\/em>to see their take on this issue. I certainly was happy to see Jon call Texas out for their homophobic discriminatory <del datetime=\"2005-04-30T06:37:5604:00\">bullshit<\/del> politics. And so was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glaad.org\/\">G.L.A.A.D., <\/a>obviously.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8216;The Daily Show with Jon Stewart&#8217; Uses Humor to Skewer Homophobes &#8211;April 26, 2005<\/strong><br \/>\nIn its &#8220;fake news&#8221; coverage, &#8216;The Daily Show&#8217; uses its incisive wit to bring to light the bigotry and prejudice of those who oppose full civil rights for gay and lesbian people. Stewart&#8217;s comments on the Texas measure to bar gay men and lesbians from becoming foster parents are particularly on-target.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Feel free to watch the clip it&#8217;s very entertaining and true, really. I can always count Jon and his fake journalist cohorts to call out neoconservative wingnuttery when it&#8217;s  &#8216;gone wild&#8217; like this. And then reduce them to amusing satire and parodies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After I heard that Texas had banned same-sex couples or LGBT people from adopting children in desperate need of a loving home, I switched over to my favorite fake-news show, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on Comedy Central to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1516\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homophobic-zaninessmore-lgbtq-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}