Stewart and the Daily Show team won the Peabody Award – the equivalent of the Pulitzer for broadcast media – for coverage of the 2000 and 2004 political campaigns. During the course of his show, Stewart scored numerous interviews with celebrities and political power players, including President Obama.
Advertisement
That’s what Mariel Waters, a high school social studies teacher in New Jersey, New York, thinks and one of the reasons why she set up a petition to get the former Daily Show host to do the job.
Just two weeks after Jon Stewart stepped away from television, some Americans are clamoring to get him back as moderator of one of the presidential candidates debates.
The petition is the fastest-growing on Change.org. According to the petition, Stewart interviewed 15 heads of state, 22 members of the U.S. Cabinet, 32 members of the Senate, 7 members of the House of Representatives, and several other U.S. and world leaders. That petition received about the same number of signatures and was credited by some – including the Stewart petition – as being instrumental in CNN’s Candy Crowley becoming the first woman to moderate a presidential debate in 20 years. As the petition points out, it’s not like Stewart lacks for experience. On Friday, the website said it had grown 2500 per cent since Wednesday.
While it is unlikely the departed talk show host will moderate the debate, petitions to the Commission on Presidential Debates have been successful before.
Advertisement
For now, we live in hope of seeing a day where Jon Stewart moderates a debate which involves Donald Trump.
