Jon Stewart’s expiration date: Why liberalism needs to outgrow the snark
Sen. John McCain, for example, may support myriad policies that Stewart finds objectionable — most especially those involving the killing and maiming of other people — but because McCain is witty, personable and seemingly forthright, he’ll always have a spot in “The Daily Show’s” heart (albeit one that’s less luxurious than it used to be). Along the same lines, Stewart has a penchant forsneering at political activists who promote all the same causes as he might, but do so without his signature (and glib) ironic distance.