Treasury Sec Geithner Met with Jon Stewart to 'Discuss the Economy'

Can we blame Jon Stewart for the economy now?

Regardless, this might help explain the post below (and Saturday’s “Restore Sanity” rally), why Stewart found Republican victories so much more high-larious than the Dems losses…

Satirist, Economist

Per Bloomberg, here’s more evidence of just how co-opted Jon Stewart is and pathetic the Obama administration’s become — off-the-record meetings with our nation’s Treasury Secretary “to discuss the economy“:

In the midst of debates on financial regulation and China’s currency in April, Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner sat down to discuss the U.S. economy — with comedian Jon Stewart.

Geithner and Stewart, host of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show,” held an off-the-record meeting at Stewart’s office in New York on April 2, according to Geithner’s appointments calendar, updated through August on Treasury’s website.

Geithner didn’t stay for a television interview with Stewart although other administration officials — most notably President Barack Obama last week — have turned up for on-camera chats.

“Jon Stewart is influential in America, so we took the opportunity for the two to meet and to discuss the economy,” Treasury spokesman Steve Adamske said in an e-mail yesterday. Stewart’s program has poked fun at Geithner, including a segment last year about the Treasury secretary’s trouble selling his New York home.

Like his anti-Beck rally Saturday, we’re sure Stewart just thought he was helping all of America, not just Obama and the Left.

He’s a moderate satirist, you know.