CBS: Stewart/Colbert Rally 'Touched Anti-Anger Nerve,' Called for 'Les
November 1st, 2010 5:32 PM
On Saturday's CBS Early Show, correspondent Wyatt Andrews previewed the Washington DC 'Rally to Restore Sanity And/Or Fear,' organized by comedians Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert: "Almost all of the folks we found said they hope it's about the moderates of America....Stewart seems to have touched what you might call the anti-anger nerve."
Andrews went on to chide conservative figures for…
ABC Shuns Hateful Signs at Jon Stewart Rally, Highlights 'Sermon' by C
November 1st, 2010 5:12 PM
Good Morning America on Sunday skipped the hateful signs at Jon Stewart's rally in Washington D.C., Saturday. Reporter David Kerley instead played a clip of the comedian and hyped, "Comedy on the mall, a little Daily Show with its star offering a bit of a sermon."
Although journalists were quite eager to play up extreme signs at Tea Party rallies, Kerley did not show a sign featuring Glenn…
The NY Times, Charmed by Jon Stewart's Shtick on the Mall, Skips Incon
November 1st, 2010 2:13 PM
The New York Times was clearly enchanted by Comedy Central host Jon Stewart’s “Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear” held on the National Mall on Saturday afternoon. Brian Stelter and Sabrina Tavernise reported the story on Sunday, “At Washington Rally by Two Satirists, Thousands -- Billions? -- Respond.”
While Stelter and Tavernise nailed the political tone as "overwhelmingly liberal," the…
Hannity Notes Restoring Sanity Rally Singer Cat Stevens Supported Murd
October 31st, 2010 11:06 PM
On a special edition of Sunday’s Hannity show, FNC host Sean Hannity informed viewers that Restoring Sanity Rally participant and singer Cat Stevens - who converted to Islam in the 1970s and changed his name to Yusuf Islam - several times declared that Salman Rushdie should be killed after Iranian leader, the Ayatollah Khomeni, issued a fatwa on the British author in 1989 for publishing his…
CBS: Stewart-Colbert Rally Is For 'Moderates
October 30th, 2010 10:11 AM
mod-er-ates: [noun] Fans of Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi -- The CBS Dictionary
It would be funny if it weren't so outrageous . . .
CBS is trying to pawn off the rally organized by Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart—the guy who had Barack Obama on his show for for a half-hour this week—as a gathering of "moderates."
CBS correspondent Wyatt Andrews used the…
Major Media Far More Interested in Jon Stewart's Rally Than Glenn Beck
October 29th, 2010 4:46 PM
Journalists are practically giddy in anticipation of this weekend's Jon Stewart rally on the National Mall. The Rally's staff has recieved more than 1,000 requests for press credentials for the event. Only 400 were given out.
Those statistics underscore just how much the media loves Stewart's leftist message (and it is a leftist message). For some perspective, consider that the September 12,…
NYT: Jon Stewart’s ‘Restore Sanity’ Will ‘Parody’ Glenn Beck
October 29th, 2010 4:45 PM
Didn’t Jon Stewart tell the media “Restore Sanity” was not a response to Glenn Beck? Yes, he did.
Jon Stewart Confirms His Radical Sympathies in Obama Interview
October 28th, 2010 5:41 PM
Last night's interview between Jon Stewart and President Obama was a far cry from their jovial encounter two years ago almost to the day. Instead of sounding like two kindred spirits yucking it up, there was quite a bit of tension between the two.
The interview certainly cemented Stewart's role as the nation's most popular liberal kool-aid sipper. Reality may have turned the post-partisan…
Obama Incorrectly Tells Jon Stewart Social Security Was Originally For
October 28th, 2010 5:17 PM
For a man who thinks Social Security is the most important social safety net we have in America, Barack Obama appears to know very little about its history.
Consider that on Wednesday, the President actually told the "Daily Show's" Jon Stewart that Social Security benefits originally only applied to widows and orphans (video available here, transcript and commentary follow):
NPR Uses Jon Stewart to Try to Make Fox Into the Villain in Juan Willi
October 27th, 2010 10:59 PM
NPR and other liberals are trying to convert the firing of Juan Williams into another episode of bullying conservatism. NPR deployed Jon Stewart in self-defense on Tuesday’s Morning Edition. Anchor Steve Inskeep noted Stewart’s arrival in Washington, DC marked his first show since the Williams purge, and they ran this joke:
STEWART [From the Daily Show]: Are you kidding me, NPR? Are you…
Schultz: NPR 'As Down The Middle As You Can Get
October 22nd, 2010 8:38 PM
Hey, it's Friday night. Time to kick back, relax, and have a few chuckles, courtesy Ed Schultz. On his MSNBC show this evening, Schultz, somehow managing to keep a straight face, claimed that NPR is "as down the middle as you can get."
Schultz served up his side-splitter in condemning Jim DeMint and other Republicans for proposing the federal defunding of NPR. In the world according to…
Jon Stewart on CNN: Fox News Is 'Wrong,' a 'Political Organization
October 21st, 2010 1:24 PM
On Wednesday's Larry King Live on CNN, liberal comedian Jon Stewart bashed Fox News, labeling their "fair and balanced" slogan a "complete lie." Stewart also stated that he thought the network was "wrong" and that "they've built... [a] really effective political organization," not a news organization. The comedian also lamented how Democrats have "faced a relentless campaign of hyperbole that…
I Don't Date Boys Who Haven't Watched Jon Stewart or Colbert
October 17th, 2010 11:09 PM
Wednesday's Washington Post carried a Style section article on "when to dump your date," or the "deal breakers" then men and women have. Post reporter Lois Romano used her daughters Jenna and Kristen Holmes. One checks out a guy's bookshelf to see if he's a reader or just has old high school textbooks taking up space. "Guys are getting stupider and stupider," she said.
Amanpour: Tea Party an ‘Extreme’ Departure from Reagan’s Conserv
October 17th, 2010 2:21 PM
ABC’s Christiane Amanpour on Sunday discovered “a long and venerable tradition of conservatism in this country” exemplified by Ronald Reagan and William F. Buckley and “all of that sort of intellectual conservatism,” but she only showed respect for that tradition in order to contend “people,” who she failed to name, “are saying that right now, it's really gone to the extreme.” Repeating her “…