Jon Stewart on Butker, Conservative "Outrage" & The Real Cancel Culture | The Daily Show
Summary
TLDRJon Stewart's monologue on 'The Daily Show' humorously critiques the concept of 'cancel culture', highlighting the irony of conservatives claiming victimhood despite their freedom to voice opinions. He points out the double standards, where outspoken figures like Jerry Seinfeld face more backlash than a controversial NFL player. Stewart also targets the right's fear-mongering around free speech and their self-victimization, suggesting that the real cancel culture is led by Trump and his supporters, who silence dissenting voices within their own ranks.
Takeaways
- 🏆 Jon Stewart humorously addresses the Kansas City Chiefs' field goal kicker, Harrison Butker, who gave a controversial commencement speech at a conservative Catholic college.
- 🤷♂️ Stewart highlights the irony of the situation where Butker's speech led to a minor online backlash, yet he is still invited to the White House, suggesting a double standard in public outrage.
- 📚 The script satirizes the concept of 'cancel culture', portraying it as a central theme of modern conservatism where conservatives claim victimhood for being silenced despite having platforms to speak.
- 🕊️ Stewart mocks the idea that outspoken Christian NFL players are being persecuted, pointing out the exaggeration in conservative media's portrayal of such incidents.
- 🗣️ The monologue criticizes the right-wing for their perceived over-sensitivity and 'thin-skinned' reactions to criticism, comparing it to the treatment of Jerry Seinfeld promoting a movie.
- 📚 Stewart points out the abundance of books about being 'canceled', questioning why there is an industry built around complaining about free speech when they are not actually silenced.
- 🤬 He challenges the notion that certain phrases like 'illegal aliens' or 'all lives matter' are becoming taboo, suggesting that the right's outrage is self-serving.
- 👥 Stewart argues that the real cancel culture is coming from the right, specifically from Donald Trump and his supporters, who silence and punish those who oppose them.
- 👉 The script implies that loyalty to Trump does not guarantee safety from his 'cancel culture', as seen with figures like Liz Cheney and Ronna McDaniel.
- 😡 Stewart uses humor to criticize the hypocrisy of those who claim to be champions of free speech while simultaneously trying to silence others, particularly those who disagree with Trump.
- 🌐 The monologue concludes by emphasizing that despite claims of being censored, there is more speech and discourse available than ever before, and that outrage is a tool used by media for clicks and monetization.
Q & A
What significant event involving the President of Iran is mentioned in the script?
-The script mentions that the President of Iran died in a helicopter crash.
What is happening with the International Criminal Court in relation to Bibi Netanyahu?
-The script states that the International Criminal Court is moving towards issuing arrest warrants for Bibi Netanyahu.
What did Michael Cohen admit to doing during the Trump organization's trial?
-Michael Cohen admitted on the stand that he stole money from the Trump organization.
How does the script describe Donald Trump's involvement in corruption?
-The script describes Donald Trump as a 'corruption Mr. Magoo,' who stumbles around causing corruption but remains unscathed.
What was the controversy surrounding the Kansas City Chiefs field goal kicker's commencement speech?
-The controversy was that the kicker gave a conservative Catholic commencement speech at a conservative Catholic college, which some found problematic due to its traditional views on women and marriage.
What is the script's commentary on the reaction to Harrison Butker's speech?
-The script suggests that the reaction to Harrison Butker's speech was overblown, with some conservative media outlets portraying it as a major scandal and an attack on Christian values.
What is the script's perspective on the concept of 'cancel culture'?
-The script criticizes the idea of an all-pervasive cancel culture, suggesting that it is a central tenet of modern conservatism and that conservatives have an industry devoted to complaining about not being allowed to say things they say all the time.
How does the script describe the impact of social media on discourse?
-The script describes social media as incentivizing and monetizing outrage, leading to a society where interactions are often driven by the desire to provoke strong reactions.
What does the script suggest about the right's reaction to being 'canceled'?
-The script suggests that the right celebrates their being silenced and uses it as a form of victimhood to promote their brand, with numerous books and media coverage about being canceled.
What is the script's view on the effectiveness of cancel culture?
-The script argues that cancel culture is not as effective or pervasive as some claim, stating that there is no organized conspiracy and that people are still able to speak freely.
How does the script characterize Donald Trump's role in cancel culture?
-The script characterizes Donald Trump as the embodiment of cancel culture, suggesting that he and his supporters are the ones who cancel people, especially those who dare speak out against him.
Outlines
😀 Jon Stewart's Introduction and Commentary on Current Events
Jon Stewart opens the show with a satirical overview of the day's news, highlighting the death of Iran's President in a helicopter crash, potential arrest warrants for Bibi Netanyahu, and Michael Cohen's admission of stealing from the Trump organization. He humorously refers to Trump as 'corruption Mr. Magoo,' suggesting that despite the chaos around him, Trump remains unscathed. Stewart then shifts focus to the story of Harrison Butker, the Kansas City Chiefs field goal kicker, who gave a controversial commencement speech at a conservative Catholic college. He critiques the reaction to Butker's speech, pointing out the irony of the situation being considered a 'scandal' by conservative media while trivializing the actual issues raised by the speech.
😡 Stewart's Critique of Right-Wing Reaction to 'Cancel Culture'
Stewart delves into the right-wing's obsession with 'cancel culture,' mocking their self-victimization and the industry built around complaining about being silenced. He points out the absurdity of conservatives celebrating their supposed silencing through books and media appearances. Stewart challenges the notion of an organized cancel culture, arguing that the right-wing's claims of victimhood are unfounded and that they continue to have platforms to express their views. He also highlights the hypocrisy of right-wing figures who decry cancel culture while themselves engaging in silencing tactics against those who disagree with them.
😠 The Reality of Cancel Culture: Trump's Influence and Control
In this paragraph, Stewart addresses the true nature of cancel culture, suggesting that it is not a left-wing phenomenon but rather a tool wielded by Donald Trump and his supporters. He provides examples of individuals like Liz Cheney who faced consequences for opposing Trump, illustrating that the right is not immune to cancel culture. Stewart emphasizes that while the right claims to be victims of cancel culture, they are often the perpetrators, using it as a means to silence dissent and enforce loyalty. He concludes by asserting that the right's fear of cancel culture is misplaced, as they themselves are often the ones doing the canceling, particularly when it comes to Trump and his allies.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Cancel Culture
💡Conservative Media
💡Outrage Economy
💡Woke
💡Victimization
💡Free Speech
💡Political Correctness
💡MAGA
💡Harrison Butker
💡Donald Trump
💡Irony
Highlights
Jon Stewart opens The Daily Show with a commentary on current events.
The President of Iran's death in a helicopter crash is mentioned.
International Criminal Court moving towards arrest warrants for Bibi Netanyahu.
Michael Cohen's admission of stealing from the Trump organization is highlighted.
Jon Stewart compares Donald Trump to a 'corruption Mr. Magoo'.
Kansas City Chiefs field goal kicker's commencement speech sparks controversy.
The response to Harrison Butker's speech and the White House's reaction are discussed.
Conservative media's portrayal of the NFL player's situation as a major scandal.
Jon Stewart critiques the idea of an all-powerful cancel culture.
The abundance of books about being canceled in the conservative book industry.
Jon Stewart points out the irony in the right's self-victimization and their complaints about free speech.
Critique of the right's reaction to Jerry Seinfeld's promotion of a Pop Tart movie.
Jon Stewart's commentary on the weaponization of outrage in modern media.
The claim that there is no organized cancel culture conspiracy against the right.
Jon Stewart argues that Donald Trump and his supporters are the real cancel culture.
Examples given of people being canceled by Trump for opposing him.
Jon Stewart's closing remarks on the absurdity of the right's claims about cancel culture.
Transcripts
Welcome to The Daily Show.
My name is Jon Stewart.
We got a great show for you tonight.
There is so much going on in the world right now.
The President of Iran died in a helicopter crash.
The international criminal court is moving towards arrest
warrants for Bibi Netanyahu.
And Michael Cohen admitted on the stand
today he stole money from the Trump organization.
Only in a Donald Trump trial would
the star witness be the one who ends up going to jail.
[LAUGHTER]
How lucky is Donald Trump?
Donald Trump is like a corruption Mr. Magoo.
He's just stumbling around, quid pro quoing,
metal beams falling all around him,
gets out completely unscathed.
But forget about all that, because there
is one story still with so many unanswered questions.
It made its way all the way to the White House press corps.
Butker.
Apparently the Kansas City Chiefs field goal kicker
gave a conservative Catholic commencement speech
at a conservative Catholic college.
It seems expected.
Although we did have a shout out to the ladies.
Some of you may go on to lead successful careers
in the world, but I would venture
to guess that the majority of you
are most excited about your marriage and the children you
will bring into this world.
Ha ha.
Hey.
[BOOING]
Apparently, enjoy the PTA, bitches.
Not the advice you want to hear when you're $100,000 in debt,
earning a degree in electrical engineering.
But I imagine that the cancelation
of one Harrison Butker was swift and unforgiving
at the White House.
Ha, ha.
You wokerati at the communist-- wait, I'm sorry.
What was that?
What did you-- he can still go to the White House
and be on his football team, and all that's really happened
is some people roasted him on TikTok?
So I guess this is just kind of a passing distraction.
Or if you happen to tune into more conservative media--
Major scandal rocking the NFL.
Players in big trouble.
Not for doing drugs, betting, or beating women,
but because he's Christian.
The left seeks to destroy an outspoken NFL Catholic.
He's been doxed.
He's been slammed.
He's-- they're calling for him to be canceled.
The left hates Christian values.
They will try to denigrate you,
isolate you, cancel you, and ultimately,
silence you completely.
But be not afraid.
[LAUGHTER]
How can I be not afraid when what you have proffered
is so afradiable?
By the way, and you're hitting us with that King
James sentence structure.
Be not afraid.
People only say that when there's shit to be afraid of,
let's say three to four horsemen.
But my question to the right, I guess,
is, have you never been on the internet before?
Because that's all it is.
It's just people giving each other shit all the time.
I mean, my god, you're all so thin-skinned.
Look, Jerry Seinfeld took more shit over the past two weeks
promoting a Pop Tart movie than Harrison Butker
did for his entire speech.
And I ask you people, what is the deal with that?
No, I'm not doing an impression.
[LAUGHTER, APPLAUSE]
I-- I legitimately would like to know why he's taking so much
shit about everything from everybody.
And who are these people?
It's so hard not to do the voice.
(IMITATING SEINFELD) And who are these people?
All right.
Now it's-- it's--
it's--
[APPLAUSE]
The Jerry Seinfeld impression is the first thing a Jew learns
in kindergarten, It's not--
[LAUGHTER]
Of course, nothing about the right-wing reaction
is surprising.
Because the idea that there is an all-pervasive, all-powerful
threat to free speech called cancel culture
has become a central tenet of modern conservatism.
They celebrate their being silenced at conferences.
They celebrate their being silenced on podcasts
and streaming outlets.
They celebrate their being silenced with over 700 book
titles about being canceled.
Why are there so many of these [BLEEP] books?
Unless you don't know, nobody reads anymore.
And by the way, if you already read A War On Woke and Woke
Inc, you're really not going to learn
anything from Woke Warriors.
Conservatives have an entire industry devoted to complaining
about not being allowed to say the things
they say all the time.
Their victimhood is the entire brand.
You can no longer say somebody is homeless.
You have to say they are unhoused.
Free phones, food, and clothing sounds like a great deal.
A homeless woman in a Democratic run city.
Pretty soon we won't be allowed
to say illegal aliens because it'll be hate
speech and therefore illegal.
Illegal aliens streaming across our border.
Trans agenda is a religion now.
Convert or be canceled.
Big trans has a real knack for making
everything about themselves.
Dare to speak your mind about issues like pro-life?
Well, your life could be ruined forever.
You could be canceled.
I'm never going to apologize for being pro-life.
How did we get to the point where
we can't say all lives matter?
As a matter of fact, all lives matter.
All of you still speak.
How?
Doesn't the woke mob have cable?
But this is their identity now.
Constant victimization.
They say what they want, and if you get upset about it,
you don't believe in freedom.
I just believe in freedom.
Why do-- why are liberals so afraid of freedom and freedom
of speech?
I don't get outraged.
If you don't like what somebody's saying,
you can turn off the TV, turn off a radio dial,
turn off a podcast, walk out of a commencement.
Or you could buy a different beer than Bud Light
without going into your back swamp
and assassinating sit back.
You're so unbelievable.
They're so full of shit that Sean Hannity can say
with a square head, I'm not the kind of guy who gets outraged.
Sean Hannity.
He's basically just a meat bag support
system for a forehead vein.
Tonight, every American has a right
to be angry and ticked off.
We have a story that will make your blood boil.
Now the left is hell bent on banning Dr. Seuss.
Pepé Le Pew, Dumbo, Peter Pan are on the chopping block.
Sanctimonious, self-righteous, frankly, overpaid,
lazy, agenda-driven liars.
What a pompous jackass.
Do you even know what my job is?
What part of this can't you get through your thick head?
My message tonight to these snowflakes is very simple.
You people disgust me.
But every snowflake is different.
We can't all disgust you.
[LAUGHTER]
Look, it is absolutely true that
in our modern, social media driven society,
our interactions are incentivized
and monetized for outrage, and it is [BLEEP]
exhausting for everyone.
But contrary to your conservative book industry,
the outrage isn't just coming from the left,
it's coming from the left, the right, for the right,
for the left, and the Swifties, and YA readers,
and anybody who dares to lift their head up
to say [BLEEP] anything.
We are not censored or silenced.
We are surrounded by and inundated
with more speech than has ever existed in the history
of communication.
And it is all weaponized by professional outrage hunters
of all stripes, scouring the globe for graduation speech
snippets, offhand comments during promotional tours,
out of context comedy bits, lame marketing ideas,
or any words and phrases they believe they can latch onto
to generate monetized clicks.
Outrage is the engine of our modern media economy.
And sometimes someone loses a job or something else
happens like that that should never [BLEEP] happen.
But--
[CHEERING, APPLAUSE]
I leaned over so far, I may never get back up again.
[LAUGHTER]
But contrary to conservatives victimization complex,
there is no organized cancel culture conspiracy where even
the slightest misstep can 100% get
someone on the right canceled.
Actually, there is.
There is one.
Congresswoman Liz Cheney gets kicked
out of Wyoming's Republican Party for opposing Trump.
Yeah.
As irony would have it, it turns out
that when it comes to cancel culture, the ones who smelt it,
dealt it.
There is someone canceling people on the right,
but the only one canceling people on the right
is Donald Trump, and anyone who dares speak out against him.
Refuse to buy into Trump's stolen election claims
and you'll lose your job like Liz Cheney or countless others.
In fact, everything the right says cancel culture
does to them is actually being done by MAGA.
For example.
They will shout you down and try to shut you down as
opposed to discuss with you.
Yes, the woke mob shouts you down.
And what happens when you're a Republican
and dare criticize the boy King?
That is a failure of leadership.
[BOOING]
And I-- you can boo all you want.
But here's the thing.
Donald Trump is running to stay out of prison.
And if we elect--
[BOOING]
I know, I know.
I know.
Now you know me as a person who says what he thinks,
and I don't hide the fact that I
wasn't a fan of our last president's character issues.
And also of the fact--
Show some damn respect, Romney, you piece of
shit, mother-[BLEEP].
It's called class.
Like I was telling your mother last night.
Hickory dickory door man.
Your mom was [BLEEP] a mole man.
You like that?
What's-- what's another, hey, they like the poetry.
By the way, what's another thing that the right hates
about woke cancel culture?
Many Americans feel forced to stay
silent for fear of upsetting the cancel culture mob.
Yeah center cancel culture, you
can only speak your truth in private while
denying them in public.
For instance, this poor, young fella,
who privately wrote of Trump, he's
a demonic force, a destroyer.
I hate him passionately, he wrote in private.
But of course, in public, fearing the cancel mob,
he's forced to stand next to his tormentor
with what can only be described as the fakest
of overlaugh faces.
Grab them by the pussy, that's hilarious--
haha.
But that's cancel culture.
It won't let you speak your truth.
In fact, it makes you do something even worse.
The left is married to censorship
and has nothing else.
That's how you get people to believe
in an alternate reality.
Yeah, the woke mob is so pernicious,
it forces you to deny reality.
Like, imagine if Trump ever gave a speech about January
6th, where he clearly confuses Nikki Haley with Nancy Pelosi.
Nikki Haley, you know--
did you know, they destroyed all
of the information, all of the evidence, everything,
because of lots of things.
Like Nikki Haley is in charge of security.
We offered her 10,000 people.
Now, in a healthy discourse, you would just go, hey,
man, you know, everybody brain farts sometimes, you know,
whatever it is.
But under the MAGA cancel culture mob,
people like Congresswoman Stefanik
have to pretend this was all part of a grand strategy.
That isn't a mix up.
The reality is Nikki Haley--
He wasn't speaker.
Nikki Haley is relying on Democrats just
like Nancy Pelosi, to try to have a desperate showing
in New York, in New Hampshire.
But he was talking about January 6th.
President Trump has not lost a step.
He is a stronger candidate-- stronger
than he is today than he was in 2016 and he was in 2020.
He is reverse aging.
He is stronger.
He is Benjamin Button.
He will be our wisest baby president.
And by the way, denying reality still won't save you.
There is no level of loyalty deep enough to be free
of Trump cancel culture.
Ronna McDaniel literally dropped
Romney from her name to keep Trump happy,
and he still fired her.
And that Romney name had gotten her into all the hottest
clubs in Salt Lake City.
Yeah, the ones with lattes.
[LAUGHTER]
Truth is, Trump is the real cancel culture, emphasis
on cult. Because on the right, you can say whatever
the [BLEEP] you want about gay people and trans people,
from TikTok to Patreon.
You can decry DEI from podcasts to, I don't know,
the governor's office of Florida.
And chances are, not only will you be fine,
you'll get a raise.
But if you ever dare speak out one iota against Donald Trump,
be, yes, afraid.
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