Jon Stewart Falsely Claims Chris Wallace Said Fox Doesn't Tell Both Sides of the Story
Jon Stewart on Monday cherry-picked thirteen seconds out of a 24 minute interview to accuse "Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace of claiming, "We don't tell both sides of the story."
Unfortunately, that's not what Wallace said Sunday (video follows with transcript and commentary):
JON STEWART, HOST: The unedited version which is on the web had what I thought was the take away moment of the entire interview, where Chris Wallace, one of the more respected individuals at Fox, basically gives away the game.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
STEWART: You believe that Fox News is exactly the ideological equivalent of NBC News.
CHRIS WALLACE: I think we're the counterweight.
STEWART: You believe that…
WALLACE: I think that they have a liberal agenda and I think we tell the other side of the story.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
STEWART: The other side of the story. We don't, we don't tell both sides of the story. We tell one side. The other side, the one we perceive is never told, the conservative side.
Actually, that's not what Wallace said. Directly from the transcript:
WALLACE: I think that they have a liberal agenda and I think we tell the other side of the story.
Wallace didn't say, "We don't tell both sides of the story." He said, "We tell the other side of the story." That certainly doesn't preclude one from telling both sides.
The point Wallace was making was that outlets like NBC News only give the liberal viewpoint, and that Fox by comparison does tell the conservative side as well.
To suggest that Fox only offers conservative viewpoints or that this is what Wallace said is absurd.
After all, if that had been the case, the liberal Stewart wouldn't have been given almost one quarter of Sunday's program to express his liberal views, would he?
Stewart and his crew apparently didn't think about that.
They also ignored that that the other major guest Sunday besides Stewart was Obama's Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates. Would a member of the Obama administration be brought on Fox if the network doesn't tell both sides?
But it gets better, for Bill Burton, former Obama deputy press secretary, was part of the program's roundtable segment as was NPR's Mara Liasson.
Add it all up, and the "FNS" program Stewart was on actually had more liberal guests than conservatives, as only former Bush press secretary Dana Perino and the Weekly Standard's Bill Kristol represented the right.
Talk about only telling one side.
As NewsBusters readers know, if one added up all the conservative contributors to ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, and NBC, they wouldn't equal the number of liberal contributors to Fox News.
But such logic is unimportant to Stewart and his followers:
STEWART: Because as you know, news only comes in two sides.
(Laughter)
STEWART: And if the conservative side isn't being told, what's being told must be liberal. Fox News isn't fair and balanced, it's balancing the system, man. Don't you get it? The system's unfair and unbalanced! To balance the system, Fox has to be the purest form of right-wing resin because of how, because of how heavy left-wing America is. Hollywood, comedians, every single news organization, the internet, facts, history, science, it's all just left-wing bullshit, man! Each one of those things designed purely to shut down conservatives.
Yes, Stewart really did suggest that facts, history, and science are all exclusive to liberals. Pretty disgusting. But he wasn't finished:
STEWART: But don't worry, Broseph, Fox isn't going to let that happen. Is fox unbalanced? Yeah. Seriously, like their ears are nearly touching the floor. But it's only because the system's unbalanced. At least, I thought that was what Chris Wallace was saying, which I thought was an interesting point.
If that's what Stewart really thought Wallace was saying, he's got more than his ears touching the floor.
But what can you expect from a guy that shortly after appearing on Fox was quickly exposed by PolitiFact for falsely claiming that its audience are "the most consistently misinformed media viewers?"
As NewsBusters' Rich Noyes pointed out Monday, it's Stewart who's the ignorant one.
Color me unsurprised that he didn't address this falsehood of his Monday evening.
That would be telling both sides.
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Comments
This guy is funny But hes not that funny..
Submitted by OldJarhead77 on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 12:36pm.
Anyone here him say that HIS political leanings influence his routines... thus trying to portray himself as balanced is an OUTRIGHT LIE! HE ADMITTED his own BIAS!
Simple Answer For A Simple Person
Submitted by Cappmann1962 on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 12:51pm.
Hey Jon, EFF OFF you flaming moron. This guy's SUPPOSED to be at least somewhat intelligent (even for a libtard). Maybe all his drug use is finally catching up with him.
But what's really bothersome is the brain-dead audience members that swallow his BS on a daily basis. And why is he taken seriously? Besides the obvious moronic behavior, foul language, and asinine comments, HE'S A COMEDIAN! By definition, COMEDIANs are NOT to be taken seriously. Jeez!
Hey...don't worry about what John Stewart says...
Submitted by WhoIsJohnGalt on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 12:52pm.
after all, he's just a court jester, a comedian,...at least that's what he falls back on when he wants to spew without having to defend his sputum.
This is just what Joke Stewart wants
Submitted by another_old_veteran on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 12:56pm.
He loves to get exposure from articles like this. He couldn't care less whether anything he spouts is accurate as long as he gets someones goat.
“If you take a highly intelligent person and give them the best possible, elite education, then you will most likely wind up with an academic who is completely impervious to reality.” - Halton C. Arp
As John stated. . .
Submitted by rickbren on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 1:03pm.
. . .he is a comedian. L O L !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
To quote Bernie Goldberg:
Submitted by almostacowboy on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 1:07pm.
"A fish don't know he's wet."
Now, in addition to being a liberal fool, Stewart is...
Submitted by PrairieSky on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 1:25pm.
also a liar.
Apparently the fact that Fox News (which, according to Stewart, is supposed to be so unfair and unbalanced), had him on its Sunday morning news program, and gave him a platform to make his argument(s), isn't enough to convince Stewart that Fox is not the evil, rightwing propaganda machine that he clearly believes it to be.
What an a$$.
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction...It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them (our children) to do the same." ~President Ronald Reagan
Indeed
Submitted by jon_torlin on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 1:32pm.
I hope no one on Fox News ever invites him back unless it's to lambaste(verbally of course) this a-hole.
He'll get more viewers on Fox News than he would on CC.
-Jon
Agreed...Unfortunately, O'Reilly seems...
Submitted by PrairieSky on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 1:53pm.
to like having Stewart on his show from time to time to spar with him, and I wouldn't be surprised if he turned up on The Factor again sometime down the road. Like you, I wish that no one at Fox would give this jacka$$ the time of day...Why invite someone on your show/channel that is going to trash you and call you "insane" and who then goes back to his own show and lies about you? Thanks anyway, but I'd pass.
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction...It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them (our children) to do the same." ~President Ronald Reagan
Stewart as a guest
Submitted by Agnostic on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 2:01pm.
FOX needs to have popular figures for the younger news generation on their shows as often as possible. Stewart may go back and make up and twist what Wallace said but there were some of Stewart's fans that watched and maybe a small percentage realized there was a difference between what was in the interview and what Stewart made out of it. You can't grow your base by constantly preaching to the choir. Stewart brings a mostly young, liberal audience that for the most part thinks it is perfectly okay to get your understanding of world events from a show that is a parody of a news program. Maybe, just maybe, a few will contrast Wallace and Stewart and see why this is not a good idea.
Sorry, but I don't buy it...
Submitted by PrairieSky on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 3:06pm.
This "Fox needs to attract the younger news generation" is nonsense, as far as I'm concerned. Fox already does attract a "younger news generation"...There are plenty of younger moderate to conservative leaning, rational, reasonable people out there who already tune into Fox...The younger, nutcase, Kool-Aid drinking lefties out there will not watch Fox, no matter what, except, maybe, to see one of their media Gods like Stewart, and nothing that they hear from the opposing side will change the vast majority of their minds.
This isn't, as you said, a matter of "constantly preaching to the choir"...I don't believe that Fox preaches to any choir except for those who are interested in a fair and balanced presentation of the issues from both sides...Fox has voices from the right and the left. You don't have to look hard to see and hear those on the left on that channel. Unfortunately, the younger lefty libnuts out there are not in the least bit interested in hearing from all sides of an issue from a true news outlet...They are much more interested in being fed the liberal pablum and talking points that they get from shows like Stewart's, and no matter how many lib fools like Stewart that appear on Fox to present their "side," will likely ever change that.
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction...It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them (our children) to do the same." ~President Ronald Reagan
PrairieSky,
Submitted by Agnostic on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 3:15pm.
Fair enough, as a business person I am always loath to do anything to reduce my customer potential. However, I will agree that you can destroy a product by trying to cater to a base that is too diverse.
I would argue that at least 0.5% of the Stewart fans that tuned in to see the Wallace interview would be willing to watch Wallace again and that is one of the reasons Stewart went on his little tantrum.
As I said, I don't think that the younger, lefty...
Submitted by PrairieSky on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 3:53pm.
libnut crowd will ever deign to watch Fox News, no matter what...They are pretty much a lost cause, so Fox trying to appeal that crowd is likely an exercise in futility. As far as a fractional percentage of Stewart fans maybe tuning back in to Wallace's show as a result of Stewart's appearance, who knows...Maybe. But, given the fact that we are likely talking about a very, very, very small number of people here, along with the facts that Fox is already #1 in the ratings, and that Stewart is generally full of crap, having him on just isn't worth it.
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction...It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them (our children) to do the same." ~President Ronald Reagan
deign to watch
Submitted by Agnostic on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 4:01pm.
you mean liberals don't often times grow up to be conservatives like I've been told for the last twenty years?
Fox is only number one on cable - they still have a huge audience they could try to steal from the networks. Especially if the management at Fox sees the networks in decline.
Some liberals grow up to be...
Submitted by PrairieSky on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 4:25pm.
conservatives...not most. Most spend their entire lives lost in their absurd liberal ideologies.
And while it is true that Fox is number one on cable, its audience continues to grow, while the network news audiences continue to decline. It is believed by many in the industry that network news will likely end up going the way of the DoDo bird, and that this will happen sooner rather than later. If these audiences follow the majority of the rest of Americans, who, judging by Fox's ratings, are looking for an alternative to the bias that is the norm in TV jounalism today, they will no doubt go to Fox.
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction...It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them (our children) to do the same." ~President Ronald Reagan
Stewart going on a Fox News
Submitted by balboa on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 3:17pm.
Stewart going on a Fox News show means publicity for that show and for Fox News. That's why they have him on.
Maybe so, but they don't need Stewart for that...
Submitted by PrairieSky on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 3:39pm.
Fox News is the biggest dog on the block, and they don't need fools like Stewart for publicity or ratings, imho...Stewart, and his intellectually dishonest bs and lies, are just not worth it.
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction...It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them (our children) to do the same." ~President Ronald Reagan
Even the big dog likes
Submitted by balboa on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 3:41pm.
Even the big dog likes publicity, especially when it gets them pub from the MSM.
big dog
Submitted by Agnostic on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 3:45pm.
The big dog on cable is still only a flea compared to the networks. FOX still needs all the help they can get to stay on top of the little guys.
I don't think that Fox really gives...
Submitted by PrairieSky on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 4:04pm.
a damn what the MSM thinks, nor do I think that they worry about getting publicity from them. Fox blows the rest of the cable news outlets away in the ratings, largely because of their approach to the news, and I think they would be ill advised to start making a habit of having fools like Stewart on its shows. I generally don't watch when certain personalities are on Fox, and Stewart is an example, and I'm pretty sure that I'm not the only one who feels this way. I know what I'm going to get with these types, and I don't waste my time watching them, even when they're on Fox. I watch Fox to get away from that type of bs, which, if I wanted that garbage, I could easily get just by changing the channel to CNN or especially, MSNBC.
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction...It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them (our children) to do the same." ~President Ronald Reagan
I'm sure they don't carme
Submitted by balboa on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 5:39pm.
I'm sure they don't carme what the MSM thinks, and don't know why they should, but I bet they care a whole lot about getting extra exposure via appearances from by Stewart and the like.
"Fox News is the biggest dog
Submitted by classicliberal2 on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 4:37pm.
"Fox News is the biggest dog on the block, and they don't need fools like Stewart for publicity or ratings"
Actually, Stewart's ratings blow away everything on Fox News except the O'Reilly Factor. That's why Wallace's people tried, for weeks, to get Stewart on their show. O'Reilly, as the top Fox show, draws about as many viewers as the PBS Newshour. Even the lowest-rated network newscast draws about three times the audience of Fox's best rated show. So Fox is "the biggest dog on the block," except for nearly every other dog.
There is a HUGE difference here, classiclib2...
Submitted by PrairieSky on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 5:08pm.
Stewart's idiocy-fest is NOT, despite what his deluded audience may think, a news program...Most of Fox's programming is, so comparing ratings between Stewart's show and Fox's programming is moot...It's apples and oranges, and is an illegitimate comparison.
And the reason that Wallace wanted Stewart to appear on his show, was because of Stewart's continuing verbal assault on Fox News, and they wanted to bring him on to give him a chance to answer for it, and to rake him over the coals, which Wallace admirably did. And as for network news having higher ratings than Fox's programming, that is also a moot point and is another illegitimate comparison. It is a fact that network news programs reach more people than cable channels do simply because they are over the air network programming, and as such they reach more people than cable programming (from any channel) generally does.
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction...It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them (our children) to do the same." ~President Ronald Reagan
Stewart's program is just as
Submitted by classicliberal2 on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 5:51pm.
Stewart's program is just as much a news program as most of Fox's "news" programs. At the same time, Fox's "news" programs are just as much comedy--just not intentionally--as Stewart's. Fox came to Stewart--he didn't go to them; Wallace doesn't share your confusion about who the big dog on the block really is.
Proof positive of liberal idiocy
Submitted by Radical1979 on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 5:55pm.
This guy can't tell a news show from a "comedy" show.
Liberals. They don't just play dumb, they are dumb.
For the typical liberal*
Submitted by cajun2 on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 6:33pm.
English and English, Dictionary of Psychiatric and Psychoanalytic Terms
Delusion: n. a belief held in the face of evidence normally sufficient to destroy that belief. It is considered an abnormal phenomenon, even though a normal individual may hold it based on delusory (data that seem to but actually does not) , support a conclusion or an alleged fact that is fanciful or based on illusion.
If the shoe fits......
Right you are...
Submitted by PrairieSky on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 6:36pm.
And this shoe fits like a glove... ;-)
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction...It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them (our children) to do the same." ~President Ronald Reagan
Pardon
Submitted by Hunter S. on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 6:36pm.
You'll have to provide some real evidence proving otherwise if you're going to get me to go along.
misfired again Hunter*
Submitted by cajun2 on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 7:03pm.
We don't want you to "go along", we want you to "go away".
Thompson wisher, the gals have dumped you
Submitted by upcountrywater on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 7:04pm.
23 ....Pustular incarnations ago Zippersoreloserous
On the upside you are rich in Protein.
You Didn't Build That.
oh look
Submitted by Hoosier Conservative on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 7:29pm.
There's that lying troll who spouts false accusations and then runs away when challenged.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2011/06/19/nbc-apologizes-...
Talk about someone who needs to provide some real evidence.
much like now
Submitted by Hunter S. on Wed, 06/22/2011 - 9:05am.
There's nothing in your post worth responding to.
Hunter
Submitted by Radical1979 on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 7:47pm.
What can we do to get you to go away?
Spoken like a true liberal...You just lived up to your name...
Submitted by PrairieSky on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 6:08pm.
classiclib. If you are unable to differentiate (which you apparently are) between a comedy show and hard news programming and analysis, you're lost. You obviously are intent on using this thread as a way to bash Fox News, something that I'm not interested in giving you the opportunity to continue doing (at least with me).
Enjoy your Kool-Aid.
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction...It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them (our children) to do the same." ~President Ronald Reagan
Mrs Sky, the cl2 has been recycling cool aid goo from 09/03/2009
Submitted by upcountrywater on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 6:24pm.
He's a mantra sort of guy, say it long N' often enough, voila still just a cut N' paste, from libdreamland His Own!!!...
You Didn't Build That.
upcountry...Thanks for the heads up...That's pretty much...
Submitted by PrairieSky on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 6:31pm.
what I figured...This one strikes me as a garden variety libnut, with whom reasonable discussion is largely wasted on.
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction...It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them (our children) to do the same." ~President Ronald Reagan
Yea, Repeat Hosing of tired old cut N' pasties,lead from behind
Submitted by upcountrywater on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 7:36pm.
Maybe he can counter this...
Part One..
Part two
You Didn't Build That.
upcountry...Nah, I don't think so...
Submitted by PrairieSky on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 7:55pm.
Not a chance in hell.
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction...It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them (our children) to do the same." ~President Ronald Reagan
A plagiarist in our midst?
Submitted by Unsane on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 9:28pm.
So classicliberal is a classicplagiarist? Say it isn't so!
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
News versus comedy
Submitted by jon_torlin on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 5:07pm.
People can watch whatever they want to, but to say that "The Daily Show" is about news is hardly realistic. Same thing with Maher and his "Real Time" show. Both guys are failed comedians so they are doing political commentary but try to make it sound like news while twisting the absolute holy hell out of them for a few laughs.
So what if Stewart gets more viewers? He's an entertainer but I would hardly call him a good source of information, except maybe a good source of mis-information.
But you're a troll, so what do you care?
-Jon
PS asserted that Fox was "the
Submitted by classicliberal2 on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 5:48pm.
PS asserted that Fox was "the biggest dog on the block," and don't need Stewart. The fact that Stewart gets bigger ratings, and that Wallace tried to get him on for weeks is relevant to this.
The problem...and it is a big one...
Submitted by Unsane on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 9:26pm.
The problem is, my propaganda-spouting drone, is that Stewart is a "comedian" hosting a "comedy show" which is nothing more than an extended version of SNL's "Weekend Update". Wallace, on the other hand, is an actual journalist who is in the employ of an actual news organization.
You already killed your credibility by announcing that you consider Stewart's "comedy show" a news program. Actually you kill your own credibility every single time you post here. This is just the latest example where you show us that you have a LOT to learn.
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
Hiding behind the "I am a comic".....
Submitted by Tomorama on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 1:26pm.
I have no problem with comics being political, it is when they cowardly hammer one side with THEIR OWN OPINION and then hide behind the "I am only a comic" BS.
I don't hate Stewart, but he is becoming all to one-sided and then denies the bias on his side s somehow made up by us crazies.............................
Equal hammering, I have no problem with.
I actually think they made a mistake pulling the comic off the stage the other night, laugh at yourself and WELCOME TO THE REAL HUMAN WORLD.
Nobody is perfect, we ALL have flaws...............
You nailed it...
Submitted by PrairieSky on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 2:07pm.
Stewart is a coward...He is quite happy to get up and pontificate, ad nauseum, with his liberal crap, but when confronted with and challenged about his garbage, he spouts the "Well, I'm just a comic" bs. If Stewart wants to be a comic, fine...If he wants to be a political commentator, fine...He can be both...But he'd better have the guts to take the fire about his commentary, and he'd better have the guts to stop hiding behind the "I'm just a comic" line...Otherwise, he would do well to shut up.
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction...It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them (our children) to do the same." ~President Ronald Reagan
One thing is for sure - Jon Stewart . . .
Submitted by Gary Hall on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 1:31pm.
The national MSM is not telling the American people the full story. If Fox is trying to balance that out - I wish they'd step up to the plate in a far more aggressive stance.
As an example . . .
The liberal leaning Pew poll, in the midst of the national debate over the very popular Arizona illegal immigration bill, found that:
The poll also found that:
What's controversial there? The very populist bill, or the MSM's attacks on the very populist bill?
Now - I don't know how well Fox covered this news, but I'm quite sure that there wasn't a chance in hell that our national MSM was going to run out and inform the broad public that only 25% support Obama's vision of immigration reform, while a super majority found the details of the AZ bill absolutely necessary and simply delicious.
The MSM continues to label popular issues as controversial, while labeling fringe radical leftist views as intolerant.
Imagine a member of the MSM choosing to call the actions of the Obama administration (AG Holder) filing to block the AZ bill, controversial - instead of their constant shrill suggesting that the AZ bill was controversial.
MSM ='s the radical fringe minority's agenda - not the people.
(;~/ gary
"Yes, Stewart really did
Submitted by balboa on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 1:39pm.
"Yes, Stewart really did suggest that facts, history, and science are all exclusive to liberals."
No, he didn't.
You're doing the same thing you just accused Stewart of doing.
wanted to agree with you bal,
Submitted by Agnostic on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 1:52pm.
but I'm afraid that it is a legitimate interpretation of the quote, "Hollywood, comedians, every single news organization, the internet, facts, history, science, it's all just left-wing bullshit, man! Each one of those things designed purely to shut down conservatives." By lumping facts, history and science on the liberal side and saying the opposing side is conservative it is a legitimate argument to make that Stewart really is relegating facts to the liberals only.
I probably wouldn't pick normally at this too much but Stewart began by twisting the words of someone else so I find it apropos that he suffer the same fate.
As always, I appreciate your
Submitted by balboa on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 1:58pm.
As always, I appreciate your input, Agnostic -- but respectfully disagree.
Stewart is saying that any facts, history, or science presented by the MSM are immediately discounted as "bullshit" by the right simply because they are appear on an MSM show, regardless of whether or not they're actually true.
Cue the resident nutball in 5, 4, 3...
bal, that is what he meant
Submitted by Agnostic on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 2:11pm.
and i wouldn't argue that in the least. What I'm saying is that he twisted the words of someone else to fit a his stereotype of conservative and what is being said can be twisted in the exact same way to mean something I doubt Stewart was trying to say. Why should either of us defend someone who is blatantly lying to his audience about the facts of his interview? He is making a personal attack against Wallace through misrepresentation, attacking FOX news via reputation and conservative through childish and banal stereotyping. He is doing all of this possibly for humor, possibly for ratings but there is no reason I can find acceptable. If he wants to make a political statement then it is his show and he is free to do so but I don't understand why you, me or anyone else would defend him considering the childish manner in which he is basing his point/tirade.
I will say that I didn't take
Submitted by balboa on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 2:54pm.
I will say that I didn't take it as an attack on Wallace, rather a moment Stewart thought Wallace accidentally presented Fox News' perceived mission: to tell the story of the news from the right.
exactly bal,
Submitted by Agnostic on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 3:04pm.
he twisted words to say something that isn't true - Why should that be defended? In this case, I don't understand why he should be defended when he just did the same thing himself.
The perceived mission is a matter of opinion and Stewart projected that meaning into Wallace's words. Usually, as in this case, I don't care because I don't really trust any of them to tell the whole truth but I do believe we should recognize a little poetic justice when we see it. Even in this case where Stewart's misrepresentation went out to millions where NB's will see a significantly smaller audience.
I don't know that it has to
Submitted by balboa on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 3:10pm.
I don't know that it has to be defended, and that isn't what I set out to do. Rather I was refuting Noel's notion that Stewart claimed only liberals have facts, etc.
know that is has to be defended
Submitted by Agnostic on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 3:18pm.
and I'm just saying neither deserves defending as both are 'accurate' misrepresentations of what was meant by the originator. Refuting Noel is defending Stewart in this case and I don't see that as worthy in this instance because both victims sunk to the same level.
I gotcha. An ideological
Submitted by balboa on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 3:20pm.
I gotcha. An ideological "zero sum" as it were.
zero sum
Submitted by Agnostic on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 3:26pm.
exactly - and when speaking of talking heads I would expect nothing more.
Looks like Stewart traded in the shovel...
Submitted by Dave. on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 1:44pm.
...for a backhoe.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
as compared to several
Submitted by Conservative in... on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 2:22pm.
as compared to several documeted times where NB has quotes of several reporters saying that they don't have to "tell the other side of the story" like in reports of global warming?
I welcome liberals on Fox News
Submitted by g00se99 on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 2:44pm.
Otherwise TV would be boring. It would just be a parade of people preaching to the choir. I like listening to Breitbart and Coulter but its much more exciting when liberals show up on Fox and debate points. Same thing the opposite way. You can't convince people to come over to your side of the arguement without getting down and dirty and appearing on some of these left wing shows.
Jon Stewart-Liebowitz is
Submitted by Rusty Shackleford on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 2:54pm.
Jon Stewart-Liebowitz is rapidly dropping to Joy Behar status when it comes to his intelligence. You've gotta love it when a flaming leftist rages against the conservative bias on Fox News while being a guest on Fox News in all his numerous appearances on Fox News. That's almost as funny as his claim that science is liberally biased: I'll remember that the next time I'm blamed for melting the polar ice caps because I used a plastic bag to carry my groceries.
It's astounding how the Left constantly grants airheads the label of "Intellectual".
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Chris Matthews: The Joy Behar of MSNBC.
Bill Maher: The Joy Behar of HBO.
Paul Krugman: The Joy Behar of The New York Times.
Like the little kid
Submitted by wingnut55 on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 3:05pm.
Jon Stewart Bill Maher they are both like the little kid on the playground. They get owned on the playground and then go home and say to themselves. "Yea, I should have said this or that". Stewart was "owned" by Chris and he knows it. So, he gets on his show and says, "I should have said this on that show. I watched that show and saw how nervous Stewart was. He wouldn't even drink the water on the show until Chris drank his. What Jon Stewart needed was his notes written by his writers in front of him to answer Chris' questions. Kind of like the President without his teleprompter.
Liberals, like Stewart,
Submitted by Smartypants on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 3:09pm.
Liberals, like Stewart, inherently believe conservative views have no merit, so anyone expressing those views--including a media outlet that actually gives credence to them--cannot be on the up and up; something is askew. This is why the obvious leftward bias of the other networks does not bother Mr. Stewart and his ilk in the least, because those networks are just supporting the proper agenda in the first place. Who could argue with that? Notice how, in his own comments on his show, he glosses over the MSNBC bias to poke another stick at FOX. It is not bias that bothers Stewart, it is conservative bias that is the problem.
No, no, no. You don't get
Submitted by Ruths husband Ben on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 5:18pm.
No, no, no. You don't get it. He's a comedian. He is just being FUNNY! It wasn't a lie or a misrepresentation, it was "being funny." He can say any dang thing he likes cause he's a comedian. Of course he can't make jokes about sacred cows of the left, like gays, cause, like, that wouldn't be funny.
Now do you get it?
Who runs fox noise?
Submitted by Hunter S. on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 6:28pm.
Roger Ailes.
'Nuff said.
Case closed.
For the typical liberal (Part deux)*
Submitted by cajun2 on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 6:37pm.
See above post For the typical liberal
I need more convincing
Submitted by Unsane on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 9:32pm.
"Case closed" = "I'm lazy".
Enlighten me.
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
Stewie
Submitted by well99 on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 7:26pm.
Propagandist of the Dems.Stewie is a Weiner lite.Wonder if he will be sending out pics in the near future?
And Soros runs...
Submitted by USMC8411 on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 9:36pm.
The leibowitz show, msnbs, cnn, abc, nbc, cbs, and all of the lame stream media. Who has more money, Ailes or Soros? Who has crashed more markets and currency by hedging AGAINST them, Ailes or Soros?
If only cronkite were still around telling liberals what to think, say, and do, like the old days. The lame stream is slowly dying...
I'll bet cronkite could have gotten Gitmo closed, which O'barry made his first executive order to close, until he ordered it to stay operating. The illegal war in Iraq that O'barry is still fighting, the Afghanistan war that O'barry has escalated, the new ILLEGAL Libyan war that Obarry sent troops into harm's way, after saying no troops would be sent there, bungling Egypt, golfing, never "practicing" his "Christian" religion (what a joke)... All the while we in the 57 states suffer...
Is China open moochele? I feel like fried rice tonight...
Stewart the same every day
Submitted by Arturo_Vandelay on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 10:29pm.
Stewart is like a broken record anymore. Attack FOX every day about it's bias, while totally avoiding his own bias and the bias on the rest of the "news". Worst of all idiot Republicans and conservatives gave him credibility early on when he tried to play the real newsman and now they can't do anything to take back the unearned credibility bestowed on Stewart. He's NOT a news man, and he isn't very funny. He's sunk to the same blend of sarcasm and vitriol that Democrat political "humorists" always end up at when actual humor doesn't convey all the hate they are trying to get across. I said from the beginning Stewart was a liberal and was going to end up going from mildly caustic attacks on conservatives to blatant bias and hate on a night to night basis. But Republicans tuned in, came on as guests, tried to make friends and even expected fair treatment. This is what you get. I'm no conservative, but I despise hidden bias. Say what you want in the open. I can handle it. Just don't lie to me. Stewart lies.
Wallace embarrassed himself,
Submitted by tombaker on Wed, 06/22/2011 - 8:49pm.
Wallace embarrassed himself, smirking his way through the interview. Then Wallace did say that Fox was a counterbalance to MSNBC. Watch it again.