Jon Stewart slammed Bari Weiss on Wednesday over her controversial reign as CBS News’ editor-in-chief when asked to make a “media bet” on either her or “The Late Show” host Stephen Colbert, who will leave his CBS home in a week.
“Oh, come on,” Stewart said when hit with the listener question on his “Weekly Show” podcast.
“That’s like the Knicks versus Sixers,” said producer Gillian Spear, likening the matchup to the New York team sweeping Philadelphia in the NBA playoffs.
“No, that’s like the Harlem Globetrotters versus the Washington Generals,” chirped Stewart in a nod to the iconic basketball entertainment troupe and its less-than-spectacular opponent. “That’s not even modern NBA competition. That’s old-school, classic, king v. clown.”
After CBS’s parent company, Paramount, made way for its Donald Trump-aligned CEO David Ellison last year, he installed conservative journalist Weiss to head its news division, a move critics argue has led to a rightward shift.
