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Jon Stewart Slams Brian Ross: 'What Story Does a Guy Have to Blow to G
July 24th, 2012 1:15 AM
ABC's Brian Ross, who falsely accused a Tea Party member of being the Aurora movie theater mass murderer last Friday, is even taking heat from Jon Stewart.
On Comedy Central's Daily Show Monday, the host did a segment he called, “What Story Does a Guy Have to Blow to Get in Trouble at ABC?" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

CBS Promotes Colbert Likening Romney's Leadership of Bain to Cannibali
July 17th, 2012 12:13 PM
Left-wing comedian Stephen Colbert smeared Mitt Romney on his Comedy Central program on Monday, hinting that Bain Capital under his helm acted like a group of 19th century settlers that resorted to cannibalism. After noting how President Obama forwarded a claim by The Washington Post that Bain owned companies that were "pioneers" of outsourcing, Colbert snarked, "Who cares? Pioneers opened up…

Colbertian Studies: WaPo Highlights Academia’s Obsession with Comedi
July 10th, 2012 3:39 PM
Observers on the right and left have, for different reasons, long lamented that Comedy Central has become the main source of news for young people. But one group thinks the phenomenon is just fine. The academic left considers comedian Stephen Colbert an object of serious and perhaps even obsessive study.
The Washington Post’s Paul Farhi wrote an excellent piece on July 9, examining the…

Jon Stewart Slams Romney as 'Rich' While Being Mum on His Own Wealth
June 19th, 2012 1:44 PM
One of Jon Stewart's favorite targets these days is GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney, whom the Comedy Central host has called a “multi, multi,multi, multi-millionaire” while carefully avoiding the fact that he too is considered to be very wealthy.
Perhaps Stewart's harshest criticism of the former Massachusetts governor came on January 24 when he asked:

Jon Stewart Slams MSNBC's Coverage of Walker Recall Election: 'MSNB-Sa
June 7th, 2012 8:50 AM
How bad was MSNBC's coverage of Republican Governor Scott Walker winning his recall election in Wisconsin Tuesday?
Well, the Daily Show's Jon Stewart on Wednesday renamed the network "MSNB-Sad" saying that it "passed through all the stages of grief last night" (video follows with transcript and commentary, serious vulgarity warning):

Dan Rather: Most Journalists Aren't Liberal - 'This Is a Sham
May 31st, 2012 1:17 AM
Dan Rather told Jon Stewart Wednesday evening that most journalists aren't liberal.
Although one would think the disgraced former CBS Evening News anchor fired for presenting forged documents about President George W. Bush months before the 2004 elections was kidding given the venue being Comedy Central's Daily Show, Rather was actually serious (video follows with transcript and commentary):

Speaking Truth to Power? Jon Stewart Back in 2000: I'm a 'Socialist
May 24th, 2012 12:50 PM
Roger Ailes was right. Earlier this week, the Fox News president made waves by asserting that Jon Stewart confessed to being a "socialist" while the two were in a bar once. Outlets such as Huffington Post and Mediaite reported the story as an accusation or an open question. It isn't. Appearing on CNN in the year 2000, the comic openly explained his ideology.
After a caller on the December 15…

Comedy Central: 'Conservative Hashtag Games Are Ruining Twitter
May 18th, 2012 9:59 AM
Warning: Remove all food, liquids, and flammables from proximity of your computer before proceeding.
The folks at Comedy Central actually published an article Thursday with the headline "Conservative Hashtag Games Are Ruining Twitter":

'The Daily Show': 'TV Has Never Been Gayer
May 9th, 2012 1:31 AM
As NewsBusters reported, Vice President Joe Biden made a stupendously stupid comment on Sunday's Meet the Press about the NBC sitcom Will and Grace doing "more to educate the American public [about homosexuality] than almost anything anybody’s ever done."
The Daily Show marvelously lampooned this issue as well as the President's "evolving" position on same-sex marriage Tuesday with John…

Jon Stewart Loses Delta Airlines As Sponsor Due To 'Vagina Manger' Ske
May 7th, 2012 10:45 PM
As NewsBusters reported last month, Comedy Central's Jon Stewart did a truly vile sketch a few weeks ago displaying a Nativity scene over a woman's vagina.
According to BuzzFeed, Delta Airlines has dropped its sponsorship of the Daily Show as a result [reader discretion advised: offensive graphic displayed below page break]:
NBC's Gregory Cheers Influence of Liberal Colbert: 'You Have A Real Im
May 4th, 2012 11:55 AM
In a fawning interview with liberal comedian Stephen Colbert on Friday's NBC Today, fill-in co-host David Gregory gushed over the Comedy Central host being a factor in the 2012 presidential race: "What a treat for me to be in for Matt [Lauer] today....Stephen Colbert is a man who has had a loud and influential voice in this political season."
Gregory began the farcical exchange by…

Stephen Colbert Calls Charles Krauthammer 'Count Chocula
April 27th, 2012 4:51 PM
Can you imagine a liberal comedian demeaning the appearance of a physically handicapped, Pulitzer Prize-winning, liberal syndicated columnist?
On Thursday, Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert called Charles Krauthammer "Count Chocula" (video follows with commentary):

Jon Stewart Desecrates Nativity Scene to Make a Jab at Fox News
April 17th, 2012 4:07 PM
In a snarky segment aimed at mocking Fox News for dismissing the Democratic/MSNBC "war on women" meme, Jon Stewart placed a depiction of Jesus Christ's Nativity over a women’s vagina, gratuitously offending millions of Christians, not to mention non-religious folks with any shred of common decency. [Audio here. Video and image after the jump. Viewer discretion is advised]

Jon Stewart Rips NBC’s Dishonest Zimmerman 911 Edit: ‘You Screwed
April 10th, 2012 3:49 PM
Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart surprisingly took on NBC News Monday for the network’s dishonest editing of George Zimmerman’s 911 call regarding Trayvon Martin.
Less shocking, the Daily Show host also took some punches at conservatives for how they handled this story including Media Research Center president Brent Bozell (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):