Jon Stewart Announces $10B Kickstarter to Buy CNN

Upon hearing that CNN might be up for sale soon, Jon Stewart announced on Tuesday night’s Daily Show a Kickstarter to raise $10 billion in order to buy CNN and do… something with it. Not quite sure what yet.

Stewart reacted to the news that Rupert Murdoch attempted to buy Time Warner, CNN’s corporate owner, and noted the air of passive-aggressiveness at CNN in reaction to the news. And while Murdoch failed in his efforts, he’s not giving up so easily.

The Daily Show even set up a website for the fake Kickstarter page, LetsBuyCNN.com, with the following pitch to any interested backers:

CNN, America’s first 24-hour cable news network, has been terrible for many, many years. Does it have to be that way? Who knows, maybe it does. So let’s find out for ourselves!

This $10 billion, all-cash bid for CNN would secure control of a massive television network reaching over 100 million homes in the US alone, which we could then use to rebuild a news organization befitting this proud land. Or more likely we’d use it to make a lot more poop jokes. Either way, you get to watch!

And the benefits for backers include some pretty sweet deals, like these:

Watch the video below, via Comedy Central:

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