Jon Stewart Turns Over Show to Oft-Neglected Side of the Education Debate
I don’t usually make a blog post out of “did you see what was on Jon Stewart last night,” but his show last night was so rare and important, I’ll make an exception.
The subject was Wisconsin, but Stewart boiled it down to an attack against teachers. Really this was a commentary on his favorite targets in the media, Fox News and Fox Business. But this perspective is so ingrained, the show almost looked like it came from a foreign country. Stewart showed multiple takes of news anchors appalled at the $50,000 a year base salary for teachers, plus benefits, as irresponsibly generous, and then the same anchors downplaying $250,000 a year as not actually rich, when in the context of the Bush tax cuts. He showed reporters decrying any effort to strip bonuses of bailed-out Wall Street executives as a violation