Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart was not happy with CNN on Monday’s edition of The Daily Show as the network continued to promote Jake Tapper’s book about the cover-up of President Joe Biden’s mental decline amid his cancer diagnosis. The fact that the two could be related was not something Stewart even considered as a possibility.
Introducing a video montage of CNN anchors, Stewart wondered, “But now doing the story seems almost disrespectful. Can CNN thread the needle? How do you pivot from excitedly promoting your anchor’s book to somberly and respectfully promoting your anchor’s book?”
After the clip package, Stewart mocked what he considered CNN’s insufficient empathy for the situation, “It’s so hard, it’s such a difficult time, so unfathomable in terms of the pain his family must be feeling. And yet, if you act now,…
