{"id":15673,"date":"2015-07-22T12:50:34","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T19:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=15673"},"modified":"2015-07-22T12:50:34","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T19:50:34","slug":"two-giants-say-goodbye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/22\/two-giants-say-goodbye\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Giants Say Goodbye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Jon Stewart returned from vacation and interviewed Barack Obama for the last time.&#160; Even without much of Jon\u2019s usual comedy, the interview was worth watching.&#160; One reason is that Jon has a depth od understanding most professional news reporters seem to lack.&#160; The other is Obama\u2019s candor.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"TV-Obama-Stewart\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"TV-Obama-Stewart\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/0722Obama-Stewart.jpg\" width=\"360\" align=\"left\" height=\"236\" \/>Two titans of the establishment left facing their twilight, President Obama and Daily Show Host Jon Stewart, sat down on Tuesday night for an extended interview on topics ranging from ISIS to the media to Iran to the crumbling VA system. <\/p>\n<p>It was a relatively friendly interview, with Stewart asking open-ended questions and more or less letting the President take the floor. The one exception would be when Stewart addressed the failures of veteran care in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Boy, rough ride for the veterans recently. First the attack in Tennessee, and then this systematic issue with the VA and healthcare&quot;, Stewart said. Veteran care has always been something of a personal issue with the Daily Show host; one of his segments on the topic even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2015\/03\/25\/jon-stewart-veterans_n_6937380.html\" target=\"_blank\">led to some reforms<\/a> earlier this year\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/media\/watch-president-obama-says-goodbye-jon-stewart-final-daily-show-appearance\" target=\"_blank\">Alternet<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/L88H2HWEXrw?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I hope you enjoyed that as much as I did, and I hope that is not the last time those two share a stage.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Stewart returned from vacation and interviewed Barack Obama for the last time.&#160; Even without much of Jon\u2019s usual comedy, the interview was worth watching.&#160; One reason is that Jon has a depth od understanding most professional news reporters seem to lack.&#160; The other is Obama\u2019s candor. Two titans of the establishment left facing their <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/22\/two-giants-say-goodbye\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}