Yeah, except it went the other way. If he had stayed, especially with Colbert gone to a network, he'd have had high ratings and been very "relevant"
He knew once you enter an election cycle that it would be really hard to leave, though, and he figured Hillary was gonna win. So he needed to leave ASAP.
>“I’d covered an election four times, and it didn’t appear that there was going to be anything wildly different about this one,” he says.
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The show collapsed AFTER he left, because fans didn't watch it for the format -- they watched for Stewart.
All the "best" writers left for Last Week Tonight, so his replacement would have had to be something special to keep TDS as the mainstay it had long been.
Instead, they didn't even hire their most talented black guy (Wyatt Cenac) because Larry Wilmore's abomination was still on air. After only one week, even liberals agreed -- Trevor Noah is a dogshit host.
Stewart used to be a decently likeable liberal; his guest spot on Crossfire that ended with him being banned from the show was a slaughter. His viewpoint that both Fox and MSNBC are "built for 9/11" shows depth.
He's not on our side, but he had real principles that made him a mixed bag for the globalists and for many of his fellow Jews.
His recent comments:
>"[Trump]’s not a Republican. He's a repudiation of Republicans, but they will reap the benefit of his victory. ...
>"The liberal community hates this idea of creating people as a monolith. 'Don't look at Muslims as a monolith. They are individuals, and it would be ignorance.' But everyone who voted for Trump is a monolith, is a racist? That hypocrisy is also real in our country."
>Instead of worrying about whether Trump is un-American, or if he thinks you’re the enemy, or if he’s being mean to you, or if he’s going to let you go back into the briefings, do something for yourself. Self-improvement! Take up a hobby. I recommend journalism.”