Jon Stewart is a scab, as are the editors of AlterNet. By posting this video, you are disrespecting the men and women of the writers` guild, and are making it clear that there is nothing "alternative" about your quasi-leftist site.

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I wouldn't say that Alternet is quasi-leftist, but I do think it's wrong to post video clips of a show that is scabbing during a strike. Until the strike ends, Alternet should refrain from linking to any shows that have, for lack of a better phrase, crossed the picket line.

Ironically, one of the main things writers are fighting for is payment for work they do that appears on the internet. Don't help the studio bosses by posting Stewart or Colbert while the writers are still on strike.

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MSNBC needs to send Chris Matthews packing....all the way to Faux News. I'm sick of him and his big mouth.

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When this clip in question is seen without commercials and nobody makes a penny for each time it is viewed here, then its not too scabby in my book.

I think its great that people are talking about Stewart's scabbery but I don't think posting commercial free clips counts as digital strike breaking.

Visit the Daily Show website on the other hand and we have crossed the scab line. (I'm sorry I wont do it again.)

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sorry, the news must go on. The future of the country depends on at least some authentic news and commentary being available to the unwashed masses.

If you want to yell "Scab", then go over to Bill Orally's site, or any Faux news, or ABCCBSNBCCNNMSNBC.

We can't black out the only source of transparency there is over someone's money issue.

Maybe the strike is a subversive effort to ensure that only Tweety, Hannity and Orelly's voices are heard?

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Am I to assume that by Leno, Conan, Stewart, etc., running their shows without writers, they are being scabs?

If that be the case, then by that logic every person who has been watching television since the writer's strike began, are scabs too.

The writer's strike has to do with the future, in that they are arguing for monetary compensation for their work which - because of the future growth of programming on the internet - will eventually expand exponentially, and they want it written now, that they will be compensated then. That's all fine and good.

But to accuse Alternet or John Stewart of being scabs because Alternet shows a clip of a writerless Stewart show seems to be a half-thought and borders on the ridiculous.

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But also true. These gazillion pundits can always pull some fantasy out of their asses which doesn't have anything to do with anything, making analogies so far fetched as to provide rich fodder for comedians. These pundit clowns must dwell on Planet Stupid-- noisy bars in shopping malls attractive only to those avoiding adulthood.

The 08 election is still very much a crap shoot and a halfway intelligent person would make no predictions.

And lord save us from the excrutiatingly politically correct bellybutton lint gatherers.

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Show of hands ... how many people think it was right for Reagan to fire all of the striking air traffic controllers?

Prior to this thread I would've thought, at a site like AlterNet, that there would be very few, if any, hands going up at all. Now, I'm not so sure.

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My first impression was how NOT funny the joke was (I am not a Clinton fan by the way).

This is a great chance for everyone to see just how important the writers actually are. We think Jon Stewart is funny but it's obviously the wordsmiths who write him that way.

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we can properly get on with the comedy. I suspect that the "big media" corporations don't want a settlement. Big media is all republican. The humor is democratic and influences votes. Not settling the strike may in fact be intentional. The timing of the strike itself may have been influenced by big republican media. These guys do fit right up there with Pravda and Isvestia. They are mean and nasty and will do anything to win. Lest we forget there are no conspiracies.

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