Regular Daily Show viewers know that Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart (and his team of writers) have been targeting GOP nominee Mitt Romney for being wealthy and perhaps not paying “his far share,” but it turns out that John Stewart himself is a member of the “one percent.”
Stewart is on pace to be living larger than Romney, the former Massachusetts governor and businessman, when he gets to Romney’s age, according to The Daily Caller (the employer of reporter Neil Munro)
In a piece authored by Sally Nelson, the news website reveals that “Stewart…makes more than 300 times the median American salary, owns three luxury homes and sometimes doesn’t pay his taxes.” Stewart’s annual salary is estimated at $15 million, with an overall current net worth of $80 million.
While $80 million doesn’t yet put Stewart into the same wealth bracket as Romney, he is already on pace to be richer than the former Massachusetts governor when he reaches his age.
At his current earning rate, The Daily Show host’s net worth will be $320 million by the time he turns 65 — Romney’s current age. And that total doesn’t include increases in property value or other assets Stewart might accumulate.
Jon Stewart apparently owns a Manhattan penthouse, two lakefront mansions in New Jersey, and another large home in upstate New York. He has also been hit with several liens for unpaid taxes.
As Mark Whittington of the Yahoo! Contributor Network writes…
Romney and Stewart have prospered by pursing happiness. Romney was made happy by building up companies and providing thousands of people with jobs. Stewart was made happy by mocking Romney for doing so, not perhaps realizing that if it is bad for Romney to be rich, it might be bad for him to be rich as well.
Do you think Jon Stewart is a hypocrite when it come to harping on someone’s prosperity and/or engaging in so-called class warfare?
What, this is so disingenuous because it's not like Jon Stewart plans to be on the show at 65 years old. Regardless I have to admit that I have sometimes thought Stewarts badgering of Romneys wealth was Jejune because it's irrelevant how Rich Stewart is because he is still in the 1% and richer then most Americans, and makes Stewarts pettifogging a bit humorous and facetious, but still cretinous.
BIG SURPRISE – making fun of and putting down people for being the same themselves! It's the 'progressive' thing to do!
Do I think Jon Stewart's a hypocrit? Not at all. Mitt Romney, rich guy, wants to run the country. He wants to keep tax breaks for the wealthy, take women's bodies out of their control, and ensure that the poor have no health care. Jon Stewart, rich guy, wants to wake people up to the lies and deception of the Republican Party. Rich, yeah, but isn't that the American dream – Jewish child of a "broken home" who became rich. Romney? Not so much bootstrapping as bootlicking.
No
Jon Stewart makes fun of Mitt Romney for being rich AND pretending to represent the middle class; for being rich AND out of touch with what most Americans need in their lives; for being rich AND having policies designed to help the rich get richer. All of these are relevant because Romney has decided to run for president. Jon stewart also makes fun of himself, though his show focuses more on people in the news, and not on Jo Stewart himself…
Here's the difference: Jon Steward advocates for strong social services and a truly progressive tax code, decisions that benefit the country as a whole even if they affect wealthy individuals like him. On the other hand, Romney and friends advocate for decisions that will benefit them even if they affect negatively the rest of the country.
Makes you wonder what these writers are thinking sometimes. Some days, I wish we could all just give up for 4 years and let someone like Mitt Romney run it. But I wonder if the I TOLD YOU SO would even be a wake up call for these people. Politics should die in the year 2012 and be replaced by a better system of governance which actually takes the people into account.
P.S. What do republicans think about Sarah Palin now? It had to have been a joke. CAN YOU POSSIBLY BELIEVE THAT A PARTY WHICH WANTS SARAH PALIN TO BE VP HAS YOUR INTEREST?