Daily Show Star on GOP 2012 Field: 'Very Gifted at Inspiring Comedy fr

October 28th, 2011 6:47 AM
The Washington Post's Express tabloid profiled British-accented Daily Show star John Oliver on Thursday, reveling in how he covered Sarah Palin's "flag-draped liberty coach" bus tour and told Jon Stewart on the Rupert Murdoch-harming News of the World phone-hacking scandal "I'm about to give you a schadenfraude-gasm, Jon." He's no fan of the Republican presidential field: "I think all the …

South Park: Obama's Made America So Bad Mexicans Are All Going Back Ho

October 13th, 2011 10:19 AM
Comedy Central's cartoon hit South Park made quite a political statement Wednesday evening. In an episode called "The Last of the Meheecans," Cartman becomes a border patrol agent only to discover that not only aren't Mexicans trying to cross over into the United States anymore, Obama has made America "so sh-tty" they're all going back home (videos follow with commentary, vulgarity warning):

Jon Stewart Makes Light of N-ggerhead By Showing How Many Places in Am

October 4th, 2011 10:07 AM
As the Washington Post expected when it published it's pathetic, racially charged, 3000-word, front page hit piece on Texas governor Rick Perry Sunday, America's media outlets have largely taken the bait by expressing outrage over this non-story. Curiously bucking the trend was Jon Stewart's "Daily Show" Monday which used black contributor Wyatt Cenac to humorously demonstrate how many places…

Bill O'Reilly Scolds Jon Stewart for Not Knowing About Government's

September 29th, 2011 11:30 AM
Liberals love to put comedian Jon Stewart up on a pedestal as being the most intelligent man on television aware of all that's impacting the nation. On Wednesday's "Daily Show," guest Bill O'Reilly of Fox News exposed the host for having missed a major story last week about almost unthinkable waste in government spending (video follows with transcript and commentary):

Jon Stewart Calls Santorum and Perry 'Idiot

September 27th, 2011 8:41 AM
On Monday's "The Daily Show" on Comedy Central, host Jon Stewart called both Rick Santorum and Rick Perry idiots as he responded to some of their statements from the most recent GOP presidential debate. After a clip of Santorum arguing that the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy should be reinstated, suggesting that members of the armed forces should keep their sexual orientation to themselves as…

Jon Stewart Presses Mitch Daniels to Admit the GOP Uses Intemperate 'S

September 22nd, 2011 10:52 PM
On The Daily Show Wednesday night, Jon Stewart interviewed Mitch Daniels and there were no laughs. Stewart put on his serious face, stroked his chin, and tried to get Daniels to admit that the Republicans were unfairly defending wealthy people and making no sense. Stewart played dumb: “It seems like the Republicans are doing everything they can to protect the wealthiest people in this country…

Jon Stewart Rips Ed Schultz for Deceptive Edit and Racism Charge Again

August 18th, 2011 11:05 AM
As NewsBusters previously reported, Ed Schultz on his MSNBC program Monday deceptively edited a Rick Perry speech to falsely accuse the Texas governor of making a racist comment about President Obama. On Wednesday, Comedy Central's Jon Stewart took Schultz to task for this glaring mistake (video follows with partial transcript and commentary):

Jon Stewart Takes On Newsweek: 'That's a S---ty Picture of Michele Bac

August 10th, 2011 10:55 AM
It seems even comedian Jon Stewart is a offended by Newsweek's pathetic cover photo of Congresswoman Michele Bachmann. Unfortunately, after ridiculing the magazine and its editor Tina Brown for using an obviously "s---ty picture," the "Daily Show" host couldn't resist taking some potshots of his own at the conservative presidential candidate (video follows with transcript and commentary):

Jon Stewart Likens Tea Partiers to Anarchists and Robbers

August 2nd, 2011 4:29 PM
If there has been anything unifying the mainstream media coverage of the debt crisis, it has been attacking the Tea Party. Last night on the Daily Show, Jon Stewart joined the chorus, railing against the Tea Party's dislike of the debt deal, which he claimed they won through the plan's spending cuts, even though the cuts are in fact quite small. According to Stewart, the Tea Party freshmen…

Bill Maher: Ann Coulter and Laura Ingraham Were Invited on 'Politicall

July 26th, 2011 11:39 PM
The arrogance of Bill Maher, as well as his ability to revise history, knows no bounds. On MSNBC's "The Last Word" Tuesday, the "Real Time" host told Lawrence O'Donnell the reason he invited conservatives like Ann Coulter, Laura Ingraham, and Grover Norquist on his hit show "Politically Incorrect" years ago was to act as his "foils" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

Bono Praises George W. Bush for Saving Millions in Africa, Prendergast

July 19th, 2011 4:10 AM
 A truly amazing coincidence happened on Monday night as former President George W. Bush was praised for helping millions in Africa by two separate public figures in two unrelated matters - the fight against AIDS in Africa, and South Sudan’s successful fight for independence - on two different television shows. As rocker Bono of U-2 appeared as a guest on CBS’s Late Show with David Letterman…

Numbers Don't Lie: 'Daily Show's' Stewart Hammers Right Nearly Four Ti

July 18th, 2011 10:28 AM
It was contentious and dramatic. On Sunday, June 19, “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace grilled funnyman Jon Stewart on his obvious liberal bias and Stewart replied, “… there is not a designed ideological agenda on my part to affect partisan change ...” The exchange got heated when Stewart held that line, telling Wallace, “You can’t understand, because of the world you live in, that there…

Jon Stewart to Harry Reid: 'If [GOP] Were Living in a Fantasy World Wo

June 30th, 2011 10:46 AM
Jon Stewart Wednesday finally stopped responding to the aftermath of his performance on "Fox News Sunday" and tried to make amends with a somewhat bipartisan segment bashing the President for his budget solutions as well as both parties for not getting anything done. Toward the end of the opening "Daily Show" sketch, after a video clip of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid saying, "My…

Jon Stewart Responds to Chris Wallace By Calling Fox News Crybabies

June 28th, 2011 2:30 AM
In the past nine days, the comedian most revered by liberals as the nation's top political satirist has devolved into a gross, unintelligible caricature of himself. So hell-bent on attacking Fox News has the "Daily Show" host become that on Monday he continued to put words in Chris Wallace's mouth while appearing completely oblivious to serious investigations going on in Congress (video…