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Lisa’s Mediterranean Cuisine Celebrates Eight Years in Ridgewood

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Lisa’s Mediterranean Cuisine Celebrates Eight Years in Ridgewood

(RIDGEWOOD, NJ, February 16, 2015) — Lisa’s Mediterranean Cuisine is pleased to announce eight years of service to the Ridgewood, New Jersey community. Formerly named Lisa’s Turkish Kitchen, in 2012, owner Lisa Mayisoglu relocated the restaurant one block east to Oak Street,rebranded the name and expanded the menu to appeal to a wider audience. With the current space has come a new partnership; younger sister Selma Sozen is Co-Owner and General Manager, and Ms. Mayisoglu has assumed the role as Chef.

To commemorate the anniversary, Chef Lisa has created a list of specials inspired by her days growing up in Ankara, Turkey. Said Mayisoglu, “It’s such an honor to share our cuisine and culture with the local community. To know my customers enjoy food that’s not only healthy but also delicious, brings a smile to my face. My work is truly a labor of love.” Highlights of the celebratory specials include:

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Grilled Calamari (Appetizer) – tossed with lemon, olive oil and oregano, served sizzling in a cast iron skillet

Lamb Shank – slowly braised in Lisa’s signature tomato sauce, infused with warming Turkish spices, served with chickpea and rice pilaf

Ali Nazik Kebab – tender skewered chicken or lamb, charr-grilled, served over a bed of slow-
roasted eggplant and yogurt puree, drizzled with an aromatic tomato reduction

Vegetable Pave – layers of sliced roasted root vegetables, drizzled with a cranberry-beet sauce

Salmon Dolmas – grilled Turkish grape leaves filled with white wine and dill-marinated salmon,served with honey mustard roasted potatoes and a mixed salad

The specials will be offered daily beginning February 23rd, throughout the end of March.

In other news, soon patrons can enjoy the exotic flavors of Lisa’s Mediterranean Cuisine at home or work, when the restaurant begins delivering to the Ridgewood-area in the spring.

Lisa’s Mediterranean Cuisine is located at 28 Oak Street in Ridgewood, New Jersey, and open daily from 11:30AM-9:30PM. Telephone 201.251.8686 www.lisasmediterraneancuisine.net,www.facebook.com/LisasMediterraneanCuisine, www.twitter.com/LisasMediterran

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Jamie Fox’s inane op-ed illustrates why we went broke in the first place

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Jamie Fox’s inane op-ed illustrates why we went broke in the first place

Posted by Matt Rooney On February 16, 2015 2 Comments

By Matt Rooney | The Save Jersey Blog

The logic behind a guy seeking the GOP nomination for president appointing a former Torricelli/McGreevey bureaucrat to a critical cabinet post still eludes me, Save Jerseyans.

But here we are. We’re saddled with Jamie Fox now. And this is how he’s spending his time: advocating for a punishing increase in the one tax in New Jersey that isn’t suckily high (the gas tax) and, this past Sunday, penning a guest op-ed in the Star-Ledger claiming that New Jersey’s per-mile road maintenance isn’t nearly as expensive as claimed by gas tax hike opponents.

For starters, he complains that the study treats multiple lane highways like single-lane ones. Moreover, “New Jersey gives out nearly $330 million a year in local transportation aid to counties and municipalities. This helps local government take care of local roads without having to raise property taxes,” Commissioner Fox explains. “The Reason Foundation counts the spending we give to local government but doesn’t count all the miles of local roads that are repaired or built. Therefore, states with greater jurisdiction over local infrastructure fare better in the analysis as those centerline miles are credited to the state.”

You can find a copy of the eye-opening study here.

https://savejersey.com/2015/02/jamie-fox-gas-tax-hike-new-jersey/

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Democrats seek relief from health law penalties

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Democrats seek relief from health law penalties
By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — The official sign-up season for President Barack Obama’s health care law may be over, but leading congressional Democrats say millions of Americans facing new tax penalties deserve a second chance.

Three senior House members told The Associated Press that they plan to strongly urge the administration to grant a special sign-up opportunity for uninsured taxpayers who will be facing fines under the law for the first time this year.

The three are Michigan’s Sander Levin, the ranking Democrat on the Ways and Means Committee, and Democratic Reps. Jim McDermott of Washington, and Lloyd Doggett of Texas. All worked to help steer Obama’s law through rancorous congressional debates from 2009-2010.

The lawmakers say they are concerned that many of their constituents will find out about the penalties after it’s already too late for them to sign up for coverage, since open enrollment ended Sunday.

That means they could wind up uninsured for another year, only to owe substantially higher fines in 2016. The fines are collected through the income tax system.

This year is the first time ordinary Americans will experience the complicated interactions between the health care law and taxes. Based on congressional analysis, tax preparation giant H&R Block says roughly 4 million uninsured people will pay penalties.

The IRS has warned that health-care related issues will make its job harder this filing season and taxpayers should be prepared for long call-center hold times, particularly since the GOP-led Congress has been loath to approve more money for the agency.

“Open enrollment period ended before many Americans filed their taxes,” the three lawmakers said in a statement. “Without a special enrollment period, many people (who will be paying fines) will not have another opportunity to get health coverage this year.

“A special enrollment period will not only help many Americans avoid making an even larger payment next year, but, more importantly, it will help them gain quality health insurance for 2015,” the lawmakers added.

So far, administration officials have deflected questions about whether an extension will be granted. Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell has authority to grant special enrollment periods under certain circumstances.

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In Hospitals, Board Rooms Are as Important as Operating Rooms

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In Hospitals, Board Rooms Are as Important as Operating Rooms

If you or a loved one is having a heart attack, your most pressing concerns probably include how quickly you can get to the hospital and the quality of care you’ll receive. You’re probably not thinking about the hospital’s board room, even though quality of care for heart attacks and many other conditions may be determined in large part by decisions made there.

Several studies show that hospital boards can improve quality and can make decisions associated with reduced mortality rates. But not all boards do so.

”Most board members are community leaders, serving on the board to support fund-raising goals,” said Ashish Jha, a Harvard physician. “They don’t think it’s their job to hold management accountable for performance. Board members often feel like clinical quality is physicians’ jobs, and they don’t want to step on doctors’ toes.”

The trouble with this perspective is that boards, and other hospital management, can influence care in ways that individual physicians cannot. They can promote protocols that ensure that crucial information is conveyed to the right people at the right time. They can establish systems so that equipment and supplies are available when needed. They can set expectations for a culture of high performance, not just from individuals but from teams of them that must work together. And they can require quality to be monitored against goals with incentives to push it toward those targets.

”I’m a much better doctor in a well-managed hospital where the systems are in place to help me do my best work,” Dr. Jha said. “Even a great chef can’t produce a good omelet with eggs that are stored in the freezer or the stove doesn’t work reliably.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/17/upshot/in-hospitals-board-rooms-are-as-important-as-operating-rooms.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&bicmp=AD&bicmlukp=WT.mc_id&bicmst=1409232722000&bicmet=1419773522000&_r=0&abt=0002&abg=1

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Downtown employees offer input on Ridgewood parking changes

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Downtown employees offer input on Ridgewood parking changes

February 16, 2015    Last updated: Monday, February 16, 2015, 9:52 AM
By Mark Krulish
Staff Writer |
The Ridgewood News

With the Village Council currently considering changes to parking ordinances, the Ridgewood Chamber of Commerce held a forum on Monday, Feb. 9 for its members and fellow business owners to share their thoughts and concerns on the parking situation in the Central Business District (CBD).

Among the topics addressed by the 40-50 business owners, employees and residents in attendance were the three-hour limit on parking meters, the cost and inconvenience for part-time employees to park, and the need for parking garages to be built downtown.

Mayor Paul Aronsohn and Village Manager Roberta Sonenfeld joined Chamber of Commerce President Paul Vagianos to answer questions from the audience.

Many owners in particular are struggling with three-hour parking limits being imposed on meters throughout the village, which they say has had a negative effect on both their customers and part-time employees.

“I think of Ridgewood as more of an experience,” said Jack Panico, president and CEO of Panico Hair Salon. “They’re coming here to get their hair done, they want to go eat and they want to go shop.”

https://www.northjersey.com/news/business/downtown-workers-offer-input-on-parking-changes-1.1272353

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According to Howard Dean, if you don’t have a college degree you’re also likely to be a hard-right religious fanatic, anti-evolution know-nothing.

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According to Howard Dean, if you don’t have a college degree you’re also likely to be a hard-right religious fanatic, anti-evolution know-nothing.

Is Steve Sweeney an unknowledgeable, ignorant, hard-right religious fanatic and anti-evolution know-nothing? Howard Dean thinks so

By Scott St. Clair | The Save Jersey Blog

If I was Steve Sweeney, I’d find Howard Dean and smack him – then smack him again.

At a minimum, the New Jersey Senate president from West Deptford Township should be seriously steamed at the way he was implicitly and condescendingly bum rushed and bad mouthed by the former Vermont governor and Democratic National Committee chair all for the lack of a four-year sheepskin.

This past week, Dean, who is a medical doctor, was discussing the non-issue of evolution and its impact on Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s presidential prospects on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” show with Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski and Willie Geist. Out of left field, Dean said that Walker’s lack of an undergraduate degree – he quit Marquette University in good standing half-way through his fourth year to take a job with the American Red Cross – made him “unknowledgeable” to the point where he was ignorant about “what goes on in the rest of the world,” which is “pretty important if you’re going to be president of the United States.”

https://savejersey.com/2015/02/steve-sweeney-howard-dean-college-scott-walker/

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The 10 Best (and Worst) States to Find a Job

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The 10 Best (and Worst) States to Find a Job

Kate Scanlon / @scanlon_kate / February 16, 2015

See where your state ranks here:

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North Dakota has ranked No. 1 for six years in a row. Gallup noted that Michigan experienced one of the “sharpest turnarounds of any state” in the seven years its has conducted the survey.

Nick Loris, an economist who focuses on energy, environmental and regulatory issues at The Heritage Foundation, said North Dakota’s No. 1 ranking came as no surprise.

“Energy development on private and state-owned lands in North Dakota and Texas is a critical reason why they rank at the top,” said Loris. “The regulatory environment has allowed companies in these states to create jobs, grow the economy, and increased energy supplies to save families money—all while effectively protecting the environment.”

Chart: Gallup

In his recent State of the State address, Gov. Jack Dalrymple, R-N.D., said energy jobs were a large factor in his state’s success.

“We should all be proud of the vital role our state is playing to help America strengthen its energy independence,” said Dalrymple.

“Over the past 10 years, North Dakota’s economy has averaged an annual growth rate of 10.3 percent, nearly three times that of the nation’s economy,” he added. “We also continue to have the nation’s lowest unemployment rate at just 2.4 percent, and our growing commercial activity has created more than 106,000 new jobs in the past 10 years.”

Dalrymple said North Dakota’s “economic progress has not been confined to oil country,” and pointed out that the state’s population and personal income rates are growing as well.

Chart: Gallup

James Sherk, senior policy analyst in labor economics at The Heritage Foundation, closely follows job growth. He noted that the labor market has slowly recovered since the recession ended. Last year represented a move in a positive direction.

“This recovery stands in marked contrast to the forecasts of Keynesian analysts who predicted that the sequester—a measure of spending restraint—and end of extended unemployment insurance benefits would harm the economy,” Sherk told The Daily Signal. “Instead, the economy has improved.”

Looking ahead, Sherk said government should remove barriers to job creation.

“The states with the fastest job growth have been those that have allowed hydraulic natural gas and oil extraction, with Texas and North Dakota enjoying some of the strongest labor markets in the country,” Sherk said. “New York decided to ban this new energy extraction technique—harming its workers and labor market.”

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To combat fraud, Visa wants to track your smartphone

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To combat fraud, Visa wants to track your smartphone

FEBRUARY 16, 2015    LAST UPDATED: MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2015, 1:21 AM
BY KEN SWEET
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* Tracking could cut fraud, experts say

NEW YORK — Those days of calling your bank to let it know that, yes, you really are in Thailand and, yes, you really did use your credit card to buy $200 in sarongs may be coming to an end.

The payment processing company Visa is rolling out a feature this spring that will allow its cardholders to inform their banks where they are automatically — using the location function found in nearly every smartphone.

Having your bank and Visa know where you are at all times may sound a little like “Big Brother.” But privacy experts are actually applauding the feature, saying that, if used correctly, it could protect cardholders and cut down on credit card fraud.

Credit and debit card fraud costs consumers and banks billions of dollars each year, and that figure has been growing as data breaches have become more common. The banking industry had $1.57 billion in debit card fraud in 2013 and $4 billion in credit card fraud in 2012, the latest years for which data are available, according to the Federal Reserve.

Facing these high costs, banks and the payment processors have been stepping up their efforts to cut down on fraud, and Visa’s announcement is just one small piece of this drive. JPMorgan Chase’s CEO Jamie Dimon has said repeatedly that his bank spends $250 million overall on cybersecurity every year, and plans to double that spending.

Here’s how it works: Starting in April, banks will update their smartphone apps to include Visa’s new location-tracking software. If the consumer opts in, the Visa software will, over a period of time, establish a customer’s home territory of roughly a 50-mile radius. If the person uses his or her Visa card at stores in that area, those transactions will be considered low risk for fraud.

https://www.northjersey.com/news/business/technology/new-apps-can-let-banks-know-it-s-really-you-1.1272256

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10 Middle School Students Successfully Auditioned for Regional Band and Orchestra

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10 Middle School Students Successfully Auditioned for Regional Band and Orchestra
February 14,2014

Ridgewood NJ, Several Ridgewood middle school students successfully auditioned for regional band and orchestra on Saturday, February 7. The auditions featured seventh and eighth grade students from around the northern New Jersey counties.

A total of 10 students successfully auditioned for the prestigious Region I Intermediate Orchestra for 2015. Six are students of Carol Sharar at Benjamin Franklin Middle School (BFMS) and four study under Janelle King at George Washington Middle School (GWMS).

The BFMS students whose names may be released are: Caleb Shi (Grade 8, violin), who received the highest score of any student in Region I Orchestra; Jodie Suh (Grade 8, viola); Christy Chang (Grade 7, violin); Daniel Son (Grade 7, viola); and Eugene Park (Grade 7, cello).

The GWMS students whose names may be released are: Emily Choi (Grade 8, violin); Emelienne Columbus (Grade 7, bass); Kate Bamberg (Grade 7, bass); and Andrew Madonna (Grade 7, bass).

In addition, Brian Brown, Band Director at George Washington Middle School, reports that the following three students made the NJSMA Intermediate Region Band. Those whose names may be released are: Edward Li (Grade 8, clarinet) and Kieran Corcoran (Grade 7, tenor saxophone), who received the highest score.

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Citizens for a Better Ridgewood : residents deserve best solution

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Citizens for a Better Ridgewood : residents deserve best solution

To the Editor:

At a Planning Board meeting two years ago, a group of residents learned that the Planning Board would consider amending the master plan to allow up to 50 units of housing per acre in 10 acres of downtown Ridgewood. Many of us who had been attending meetings were disappointed that a compromise or scaled-down approach to adding new housing in our downtown was not put forth before moving forward with testimony.

We simply believe that residents deserve the best solution to this issue, one that enhances and supports our Central Business District and encourages a diversity of housing options while protecting the unique character of our village and the quality of life we currently enjoy.

The Planning Board is tasked with the important responsibility of finding a solution that balances benefits to the community with the potential negative effects. We understand that this is not an easy task and that the Planning Board will be making a decision that has enormous implications for the future of Ridgewood.

Citizens for a Better Ridgewood (CBR) wants to thank the Planning Board for allowing residents to have a voice in this process, and for allowing the process to proceed without rushing to a quick conclusion. We urge the Planning Board to consider all sides, to proceed cautiously and to do what’s best for Ridgewood. Please remember your residents really do care.

Amy Bourque

Lori Weil

Trustees, Citizens for a Better Ridgewood

 

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Postal Spikes taking toll on Village Walkways

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February 16,2015
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Ridgewood NJ, Readers report scratches on their stoops and pavers this winter .An investigation has determined the postal workers are wearing spikes on their shoes for better grip against the elements .  The spikes have been authorized by the Ridgewood Post Office to ensure worker safety . Several residents have reached out  to the blog  and reported this issue . While we are glad the Postal Service is taking steps to ensure worker safety , the spikes seem to be having and adverse effect on stone pavers and other stone walk ways which may case additional hazards in the future .Perhaps a softer rubber spike required on many golf courses may be the answer . We do not want anything done that will jeopardize safety . 

ETCHED IN STONE : THE STORY BEHIND POSTAL SERVICE’S UNOFFICIAL MOTTO

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers
from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.

The Postal Service has no official motto. The popular belief that it does is a tribute to America’s postal workers. The words above, thought by many to be the motto, are chiseled in gray granite over the entrance to the New York City Post Office on 8th Avenue. In 1982, the building was renamed the James A. Farley Post Office Building in honor of the 53rd Postmaster General.

The motto comes from Book 8, Paragraph 98, of The Persian Wars by Herodotus. During the wars between the Greeks and Persians (500-449 B.C.), the Persians used a system of mounted couriers.

The firm of McKim, Mead and White designed the New York General Post Office, which opened to the public on Labor Day, 1914. One of the firm’s architects, William Mitchell Kendall, was the son of a classics scholar and read Greek literature for pleasure. He selected the “Neither snow nor rain …” inscription, which he modified from a translation by Professor George Herbert Palmer of Harvard University, and the Post Office Department approved it.

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Reader asks can we prevent our town from becoming the new Northern New Jersey hotbed of progressive political posturing.

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Reader asks can we prevent our town from becoming the new Northern New Jersey hotbed of progressive political posturing.

Will village council members Knudsen and Sedon attend the Sunshine Law – Open Public Meetings presentation by the League of Women Voters? More importantly, if they wished to do so, M’s Knudsen and Sedon should declare their intention to attend in their official capacity the ‘civility roundtable’ discussions that have become the mayor’s fetish, and thereby force him to adhere to all of the Sunshine Act formalities in advance of and in the wake of each such meeting. In this way the ambiguous, morphing nature of this ongoing series of quasi-public meetings seemingly steeped in issues of great public import will be eliminated, the participation and influence and of non-resident speakers (such as the arguably irrelevant ‘Englewood Councilwoman’ Lynne Algrant, ‘North Jersey Media Group Publisher and President’ Stephen Borg, and ‘Public Affairs Executive and Jersey City Official’ Robert Sommer) will be appropriately limited or regulated, and as a salutary side-effect, we will prevent our town from becoming the new Northern New Jersey hotbed of progressive political posturing.

Sunshine Law – Open Public Meetings Act Presentation League of Women Voters Program – All are Welcome
The League of Women Voters of Ridgewood is proud to present a program on the “Sunshine Law” – the Open Public Meetings Act. Walter Luers, Esq., President of the New Jersey Foundation for Open Government (NJFOG) will explain the details of the Open Public Meetings Act, as well as the Open Public Records Act. NJFOG is a well-respected authority on the Sunshine Law, and Mr. Luers was recognized as one of ten “Lawyers of the Year” for his work on the Open Public Records Act.

When: Wednesday, February 18, 2015 at 7:00 PM Where: Ridgewood Village Hall, 131 N. Maple Ave, Ridgewood NJ, Senior Center Lounge, First Floor There will be ample time for questions after the presentation. All are welcome, and refreshments will be served. The guiding principle of the LWV is the informed and active participation of citizens in government. For more information: [email protected]

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Reader says Ridgewood is actually the perfect place to screw the taxpayers. Why? Because Ridgewood types are completely oblivious to matters of local government

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Reader says Ridgewood is actually the perfect place to screw the taxpayers. Why? Because Ridgewood types are completely oblivious to matters of local government

The impression I get out of all of this, is that Rica was the only person who was flat-out stealing in the pure sense of the word. Although still stealing by definition, the other shrinkage was probably all down to a sense of entitlement by certain other employees who felt it was perfectly acceptable for the Village to pay for their coffees, lunches, etc. I believe that this was an ingrained practice, going back years, probably unofficially sanctioned by certain senior officials. I believe it was this aspect that made the prosecution of Rica very tricky.

You know, I came to Ridgewood almost 20 years ago, and I naively thought that it was probably above all this kind of crap that so often affects municipalities of a lower class standing. I admit that this was naive. I thought the Village was somehow a reflection of the general high levels of sophistication of its residents. Please stop laughing. I really did. Coin Boy and its wider story is just the latest chapter in my utter disgust at municipal government. Who remembers the on-duty cop who was busted for having sex with an under-age girl at the back of Starbucks? Not only did he not go to jail, but he kept his job! That was real am-I-living-in-an-alternate-universe result.

The more I study New Jersey’s enormous history of municipal government issues of corruption, nepotism, laziness, cronyism, etc., it makes for extremely depressing reading. I now think that I had Ridgewood completely the wrong way around, and that it’s actually the perfect place to screw the taxpayers. Why? Because Ridgewood types are completely oblivious to matters of local government, being caught up in their stressful Wall St jobs, their busy social lives, and best of all, the transient nature in which they live here just for the school years.

For those who don’t easily sport sarcasm, the last bit is just that.

You know folks, let’s just laugh it off at our next cocktail party. Just one bad apple, right? This is a great town. You know, they actually come round the back and pick up my garbage. What a town!

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How Jon Stewart turned lies into comedy and brainwashed a generation

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How Jon Stewart turned lies into comedy and brainwashed a generation

By Kyle Smith

February 15, 2015 | 6:00am

So Brian Williams goes out (for six months) humiliated and derided. Jon Stewart goes out (permanently, one hopes) the same day, but on a giant Comedy Homecoming King float, with a 21-gun salute from the media, his path strewn with roses and teardrops.

Why?

Brian Williams lied about his personal exploits a few times. Jon Stewart was unabashedly and habitually dishonest.

Though Stewart has often claimed he does a “fake news show,” “The Daily Show” isn’t that. It’s a real news show punctuated with puns, jokes, asides and the occasional moment of staged sanctimony.

It contains real, unstaged sound bites about the days’ events and interviews about important policy matters.

Stewart is a journalist: an irresponsible and unprofessional one.

He is especially beloved by others in the journo game. (For every 100 viewers, he generated about 10 fawning profiles in the slicks, all of them saying the same thing: The jester tells the truth!).

Any standard liberal publication was as likely to contain an unflattering thought about Stewart as L’Osservatore Romano is to run a hit piece on the pope.

The hacks have a special love for Stewart because he’s their id. They don’t just think he’s funny, they thrill to his every sarcastic quip. They wish they could get away with being so one-sided, snarky and dismissive.

https://nypost.com/2015/02/15/how-jon-stewart-turned-lies-into-comedy-and-brainwashed-a-generation/