L'effet Jon Stewart: accès secret à la Maison Blanche

 Jon Stewart est un humoriste et un animateur dont le style unique ouvre des portes et pas n'importe qu'elles portes, celles de la Maison Blanche pour des entretiens en privé avec le Président des États-Unis. Lorsque l'humour peut être récupéré pour servir de nombreuses causes. Stewart est un maître dans l'art de jouer avec des sujets sérieux tout en faisant rire.

"As the White House recognized, Stewart can, at times, be a more potent influence on policy than Obama himself. The 52-year-old funnyman is widely credited with changing how the government treated military veterans and Sept. 11 first responders and for canceling a hyper-partisan CNN talk show. His broadsides against President George W. Bush’s Iraq war and a series of Obama missteps had a searing effect on how Americans thought about Washington.

 Top Obama aides David Axelrod and Austan Goolsbee knew Stewart’s voice mattered and made sure to field calls and emails from the host and Daily Show staff.

Looking back on Stewart’s 16-year run, which ends with a final show next Thursday, Democratic and Republican officials, including many of the lawmakers and administration aides he’s routinely skewered, said in interviews there are plenty of identifiable marks where Stewart has made a difference."

http://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2015/07/jon-stewarts-secret-white-house-visits-000178?ml=tb