Politics | Jon Stewart Jon Stewart Turns Barbs Against Obama President's turn as butt of Daily Show spurs partisan buzz By Jane Yager Posted Feb 1, 2010 7:22 AM CST Copied FILE - In this March 12, 2009 file photo, Jon Stewart hosts a taping of Comedy Central's "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" in New York. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow, file) Barack Obama hasn't just lost the earnest liberals; Jon Stewart's recent barbs show the honeymoon is also over with left-leaning comedy. Stewart is a "pop-culture bellwether," Howard Kurtz writes in the Washington Post, so left and right alike took notice last week when Stewart ripped the president for speaking to schoolkids with a teleprompter. No matter that there were no kids—only journalists—in the classroom. FoxNation gleefully reported "Jon Stewart mocks Obama's teleprompter dependence." Other liberals have also come under Stewart's fire recently: He gave Keith Olbermann a nasty lashing, saying he had once "toiled in the fields of the factual," but was now "just kind of calling people names." Still, Kurtz notes, Obama is a long way from being Stewart's new Bush: "We've all seen Jon Stewart fire his comic bazooka. With Obama, he's merely using a popgun." Read These Next Details trickle out on 2 more victims of the Minneapolis shooting. The Air Force has changed its tune on Ashli Babbitt. Isolated tribe members show up in an unexpected place. Trump fires regulator before vote on rail merger. Report an error