DENVER (Hollywood Reporter) - As he gets ready to preside over his third base set of political conventions, "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart said that from the show's standpoint, it doesn't matter who wins the presidency in November.
"For our show, it's absolutely irrelevant who's president of the United States," Stewart aforesaid Monday morn at a small gathering of reporters before his Comedy Central show begins its telecasts from the Democratic National Convention here.
"The jokes will be there, I'm positive," he aforementioned.
He declined to say whom he would vote for in November, but he said he thinks he has made up his mind.
"I consider they would both be decent presidents," Stewart aforementioned. He made no finger cymbals about his dislike for the Bush administration, locution that it hadn't governed with public honor.
"I think they'll (McCain and Obama) both order from a place that is far less supercilious," Stewart said.
But Stewart didn't reserve his fire for the Bush administration. He criticized the 24-hour cable news oscillation, the sometimes cozy relationship of journalists and their sources in politics and government, and the evening newscasts.
Speaking to a room of print reporters from the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post and elsewhere, he said that the country's news agenda shouldn't be led by the 24-hour news channels.�
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