Palace Guard: With President Obama's Personal Endorsement, Jon Stewart Officially Becomes 'The Establishment'

Any comedian who professes to Speak! Truthiness! To! Power! would have the dignity to be embarrassed over an endorsement from a sitting president. But Jon Stewart is no comedian. Oh, he’s plenty funny, but let’s be honest here — Stewart’s primary job is to protect those currently holding power, not to make people laugh.

After — once again — slamming Fox News, President Obama then went on to pat his pet Jon Stewart on the head and, incredibly, endorse Stewart’s upcoming elitist rally — which is obviously meant to mock Glenn Beck’s incredibly successful gathering and the few hundred thousand everyday Americans who had the temerity to gather peaceably out of respect for their country and faith.

So here you go, Mr. ClownFaceFunnyMan… Congratulations. Mark this moment: You are officially the King’s jester — as establishment as you can get:

President Obama gave a plug for a rally planned by The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart, called the “Campaign to Restore Sanity,” contrasting the the tone of the spoof news show with that of its “purposely provocative” cable counterparts.

“What happens is these cable shows and talk show hosts, a lot of them figure out that, ‘The more controversial I can be, and I’m calling Obama this name or that name and saying he wasn’t born in this country, that will get me attention,” the president said.

Part of the challenge of combating purposely provocative shows, Obama added, is creating a way to remind Americans that the country is not as polarized as cable shows would sometimes make it seem.

“Use Jon Stewart, the host of the Daily Show,” Obama said. “Apparently he’s going to host a rally called something like, ‘Americans Who Favor a Return to Sanity or something like that.”

Can you imagine George Carlin or Richard Pryor selling out to a point where a sitting president would’ve endorsed anything they did as a way to save his bacon in an upcoming election. Carlin and Pryor might not have been conservatives but I’m a huge fan of both and would like to think something like this would’ve made the both of them a little queasy.