Jon Stewart Takes Down Corporate America’s Fake Morality
Jon Stewart celebrated Pride Month by exposing the fake morality of corporate America on The Daily Show.
Jon Stewart celebrated Pride Month by exposing the fake morality of corporate America on The Daily Show.
Jon Stewart called out the right’s fake cancel culture and pointed out that the one real source of cancel culture is Donald Trump.
Jon Stewart delivered a reality check to the media who are overcovering every little detail of the Trump hush money trial.
Jon Stewart took down Trump after day one of the hush money trial with a joke that highlighted the ex-president’s assaults on America.
Jon Stewart showed that Trump’s fraud, and the fraud committed by other wealthy people is far from a victimless crime.
Jon Stewart held himself accountable for claiming that Biden was too old and too weak to be president on The Daily Show.
Trying to get comedy out of Israel’s bombing of Gaza is a tall task, but behind the jokes, Jon Stewart offered a common-sense solution for the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Jon Stewart addressed the backlash to his bothsidesism about Biden and Trump by getting defensive and then seemed to try to appease his audience by going after Tucker Carlson.
Jon Stewart returned to The Daily Show and delivered several instant hits while talking about the ages of Biden and Trump.
An emotional and furious Jon Stewart unloaded on Senate Republicans for blocking an expansion of healthcare for veterans.
Jon Stewart had some pointed observations for Republicans and why they defend Vladimir Putin.
Back in 2015, Candace Owens wrote a blog where she frequently bashed Conservatives, including Donald Trump. A few short years later, she has become one of the biggest stars in the Conservative world. The activist was regularly retweeted by Donald Trump Jr. And the 45th president himself, held an event where he spoke to proponents…
Jon Stewart returned to deliver take down Donald Trump in a way that only he can.
Jon Stewart’s lobbying has paid off as Congress will extend the 9/11 responders health care fund for five more years as part of the omnibus spending bill.
Jon Stewart unloaded on Congress for their seeming indifference to the plight of 9/11 first responders.
Friday Fox Follies was sure this week’s column would be a slam dunk after Michelle Obama’s forceful speech on race at Tuskegee University, aka Speechifying While Black™. But then her husband had to open his big mouth: Obama Swipes at Fox: Pushing Narrative That Poor People Are ‘Leeches’. No biggie. Add a few words here and there and — voila! — an All Obama!!! All The Time!!! column. However, that plan was dashed as Conservatives Quickly Try to Turn Stephanopoulos into the ‘Next Brian Williams.’
What depresses me is Fox ratings versus a Truth-O-Meter. Once again the Tampa Bay Times Pundit Fact is checking in on our TV network scorecards.
Hannity guest Gavin McInnes claims Jon Stewart has “blood on his hands” for mocking FOX’s spring break coverage.
Trevor Noah, a 31-year old South African comedian, will replace Jon Stewart as the host for The Daily Show.
Last week Tucker Carlson proved he isn’t a real journalist (which may be why he’s on Fox). This week he proved he’s running a frat house, a topic in the news lately for systemic sexism, not to mention racism.
This week’s Friday Fox Follies takes on Tucker Carlson’s refusal to allow anyone who works for him to criticize Fox News.
During Thursday night’s broadcast of The Daily Show, host Jon Stewart actually dropped a microphone after unleashing a rant towards Fox News for hypocritically demanding protesters and media apologize for ‘Hands Up, Don’t Shoot’ while simultaneously ignoring House Republicans report on Benghazi.
There’s nothing Friday Fox Follies likes least than to repeat a topic from last week because new jokes are hard to find. No matter. When Bill O’Reilly Goes Ballistic On Eric Engberg, David Corn, Calls Bob Schieffer A ‘Plagiarist’ this reporter must follow the truth, no matter where it goes.
During Wednesday night’s broadcast of The Daily Show, host Jon Stewart lit into longtime nemesis Fox News for waging a “chronically angry war for ideological purity.”
When Friday Fox Follies went to press last week, Brian Williams’ spectacular crash to earth still echoed in Halls of Mediazuma. Many wags (this one included) noticed the condemnation was loudest (shrillest?) at the Fox “News” Channel, which did not hold itself to the same high standards.
During Monday night’s broadcast of The O’Reilly Factor, host Bill O’Reilly got bent out of shape over the amount of praise Jon Stewart has received from national media figures since The Daily Show host announced he is departing at the end of the year.
The big news this week was about fake newsmen Brian Williams and Jon Stewart and — wouldn’t you know it — Fox “News” had fingerprints at both scenes of the crime.
CNN boss Jeff Zucker said that he is interested in having a conversation with Jon Stewart about joining CNN after he leaves The Daily Show. The idea of a Jon Stewart to CNN move should terrify Fox News.
Prior to making the announcement on his upcoming departure, it was business as usual, as Jon Stewart once again aimed his sharp wit at his favorite target — Fox News.
Comedy Central has confirmed reports that Jon Stewart will be leaving The Daily Show later this year.
During Monday night’s broadcast of The Daily Show, host Jon Stewart addressed the recent revelation that NBC News anchor Brian Williams had made false claims about taking rocket fire during a helicopter ride in Iraq in 2003.
During Monday night’s episode of The Daily Show, host Jon Stewart skewered former GOP Vice-Presidential nominee Sarah Palin’s incoherent speech at the Iowa Freedom Summit.
During Wednesday night’s broadcast of The Daily Show, host Jon Stewart took aim at the multiple Republican responses to this year’s State of the Union address.
During Monday night’s broadcast of The Daily Show, host Jon Stewart tore into former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee over his criticism of singer Beyonce.
At the beginning of his show Wednesday night, The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart paid tribute to the staff of French newspaper Charlie Hebdo after a terrorist attack on the paper’s office claimed the lives of 12 people.
Since hitting the cable dial in 1996, Fox “News” Channel values have been on full display: Anti-truth chief among them. Even when caught in flat-out lies, Fox “News” rarely issues apologies.
Monday’s episode of The Daily Show was its first since the announcement of Darren Wilson’s non-indictment. Instead of focusing on the decision itself, Stewart spent the majority of the first segment skewering Fox News over its coverage of Ferguson.
Last week, a Minneapolis news station ran a story, provided to them by local law enforcement, claiming Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges was photographed flashing gang signs with a known criminal. The mayor addressed the issue in the best way possible this week.
Jon Stewart brilliantly used the example of ice cream to explain the corruptive force of money in politics during an interview on CBS Sunday Morning.
In a new interview, Jon Stewart said that conservative movement heroes Ted Cruz and Paul Ryan have repeatedly refused to be interviewed on The Daily Show.
Jon Stewart confirmed in an interview that NBC did try to hire the late night comedian to host Meet The Press, but Stewart never seriously considered their offer.
CNN received an audio recording of comments Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) made to an all-male Irish-Catholic organization in South Carolina earlier in the month. While speaking to the group at a private meeting, Graham stated that “white men who are in male-only clubs are going to do great in my presidency.”
After Jon Stewart skewered him on The Daily Show Monday night, Chris Christie proclaimed to Matt Lauer on Tuesday morning that he knows more about how to handle Ebola than the CDC.
A new Pew Research Journalism Project study found that Americans trust Jon Stewart’s fake newscast to deliver the news about government and politics more than they trust Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.
Everything old is new again!!! When Bill “White Privilege” O’Reilly hosted Glenn Beck On Fox [to say] President Is Neglecting Dallas Ebola Danger Because Of City’s Unfavorable View Of Obama, it all came rushing back to me in a tsunami of nostalgia.
It looks like NBC never wanted Chuck Todd to replace David Gregory as the host of Meet The Press. It is being reported that the real host that NBC wanted was Jon Stewart.
Welcome to The Friday Fox Follies, a new weekly feature at PoliticusUSA. Each week Headly Westerfield will wrap up the Fox “News” tomfoolery and shenanigans (as the dictionary defines those words) into one neat little package with a bow.
During Monday night’s episode of The O’Reilly Factor, Bill O’Reilly lashed out at comedian Stephen Colbert for lampooning his idiotic plan to create a 25,000 private mercenary army to take on the world’s problems, specifically radical Islamist terrorists.
On Monday night’s episode of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, host Jon Stewart devoted the first segment of his program to the subject of climate change.
Former President of the United States Bill Clinton appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Thursday night. Stewart ended up interviewing Clinton for nearly 30 minutes, throwing the extended interview on the show’s website after the episode aired.
After showing Scarborough ranting about Mrs. Clinton’s book tour and making appearances in early primary states while not announcing her intentions to run, Stewart gloriously took down Scarborough and highlighted his complete and total hypocrisy.
A new survey from the Brookings Institute found that Jon Stewart and The Daily Show are now more trusted than MSNBC to provide accurate information.
On Tuesday night’s episode of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart compared the recent insane statements by two men who have completely worn out their welcome — Donald Sterling and Karl Rove.
During Tuesday night’s episode of The Daily Show, host Jon Stewart started the show off by discussing the verdict in the Michael Dunn trial.
Wednesday night’s episode was the first chance that Jon Stewart got to fully discuss the State of the Union address. Stewart turned it up to eleven with his righteous indignation and it was glorious.
Former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell and his wife Maureen were arraigned this morning in federal court on 14 counts stemming from the acceptance of illegal gifts and obstruction.
On Wednesday’s edition of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart brilliantly intertwined two stories that, on the surface, have absolutely nothing to do with each other.
Jon Stewart came out with both barrels blazing on Thursday night’s episode of The Daily Show. He had the right-wing squarely in his crosshairs and he had no qualms firing upon them.
Stewart decided to go into detail about New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s growing scandal over the politically motivated traffic jam caused by his aides due to Fort Lee’s mayor not endorsing him in last year’s election.
On Monday night’s episode of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart took aim at conservatives who have taken to the airwaves in the past few days to spout idiotic statements regarding climate change in light of record cold temperatures over much of the United States
On Monday night, Jon Stewart took apart the ridiculousness of Megyn Kelly’s explanation regarding her comments about Santa and Jesus being white.
“I’m really scary,” Barton declared. “I am very scary for people who have a secular worldview.”
After the war criminals Rumsfeld and Cheney criticized Obama, Jon Stewart reminded them of their own grievous misdeeds
For ten years, Jon Stewart has been telling CNN what’s wrong with their network, and they have responding doing the very things that caused their downfall. Things like reviving Crossfire.
The ugly racism of Donald Trump reared its head again, as the bigoted billionaire went on the attack against Jon Stewart for being Jewish.
Jon Stewart did the mainstream media’s job, and revealed that GOP minority outreach strategy is the same one that Kool cigarettes used to target African Americans.
Rush Limbaugh tried to take credit for the success of The Daily Show by claiming that his 1990s television was the forerunner of what Jon Stewart and company are doing today.
Jon Stewart used the behavior of Republicans in 2012 to explain why the Voting Rights Act should be expanded, and slammed Justice Scalia for his judicial activism.
On The Daily Show, Rachel Maddow had a classic line when she labeled Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, “a troll.”
Jon Stewart explained the difference between Marco Rubio and Barack Obama as, “He (Obama) may need a prompter, but at least he doesn’t need an IV bag.”
Jon Stewart tore apart the right’s Obama tyranny hysteria, and suggested that they were mistaking tyranny for losing a presidential election.
Jon Stewart ripped the 67 House Republicans who voted no on flood insurance funding for Sandy victims, and exposed the hypocrisy behind their ideology.
If the Republicans fell all over themselves in 2012 to sound stupid, the Democrats were happy to help them along, as this list demonstrates
Jon Stewart ripped into Fox News for spreading Wal-Mart’s propaganda against striking workers, and for defending the company after a garment factory fire in Bangladesh killed 129 people.
Jon Stewart hammered the so called job creators for using Obamacare as an excuse for layoffs. Stewart said, ‘Obamacare is just the latest excuse to rig the social contract.’
Nate Silver was on The Daily Show, where Jon Stewart summed up his role as the defender of reality as, ‘you were like the Chick-fil-a sandwich for reality.”
Jon Stewart ripped pundits in general for their lack of accountability, but he saved some special scorn for Dick Morris. Stewart called Morris the, ‘king of wrong mountain.’
Jon Stewart summed up Chris Christie’s 180 on Obama’s leadership after Hurricane Sandy by asking, ‘I guess he found that f**king lightswitch, huh?’
Jon Stewart ripped the 40 Republican senators who blocked the Veterans Job Corps Act of 2012 that would have created jobs for vets. Stewart summed it up by calling them ‘a**holes.’
Jon Stewart leveled Mitt Romney with a devastating critique of his debate performance. Stewart described Romney on foreign policy as, ‘Follow me, I’ll be right behind the President’
Jon Stewart and Bill O’Reilly got together for a debate for charity, and while comedy was expected, Jon Stewart walked all over Bill O’Reilly in a debate that morphed into a serious discussion.
Jon Stewart slayed Mitt Romney’s you didn’t build that attack on Obama, exposing Romney for hanging his whole campaign on an out of context grammatical misstep.
Jon Stewart destroyed Mitt Romney’s retroactive retirement parsing in just a few words, showing that Romney has painted himself into a corner.
Jon Stewart took the media to task to for blowing the Wisconsin recall completely out of proportion, and proclaiming the results an Armageddon like event.
Jon Stewart responded to Roger Ailes’ claim that he is a socialist by calling Fox News a fiefdom of victimhood and conservative propaganda juggernaut disguised as a news network.
Roger Ailes spoke at Ohio University yesterday and showed his desperate contempt for Jon Stewart by claiming that the Daily Show host admitted to being a socialist.
Unsurprisingly, David Barton did not stand up well to Jon Stewart’s questioning, dodging issues, misrepresenting facts and when necessary, outright lying
The Republican Party is eager to legislate on women’s use of their reproductive systems; they have so far shown no willingness at all to legislate use of their own
Jon Stewart didn’t just joke about Sarah Palin on the Today show, he took out the knives and cut through Sarah Palin’s BS down to her empty fame craving core.
Jon Stewart points out that Fox News pretended like the Republican primary didn’t exist on Tuesday, and instead spent the night bellyaching and crying about the left and President Obama.
Jon Stewart says of the endlessly repetitive debates that it’s like the republican primary’s become a telethon for electoral dystrophy
Poor Glenn Beck just can’t let go of his jealousy of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. Today on his Fox News program, Beck went on the attack against Stewart and Colbert by claiming that they keep people in denial. He said, “What better way to keep people sheep then making sure that people get their news from a comedian?….Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, that’s not news. That’s a monologue. That’s jokes.”
Jon Stewart sat down for a great interview with Rachel Maddow on her MSNBC show. Stewart described to Maddow what he thinks is the brilliance of Fox News, “I think the brilliance of fox news, and they delegitimized the idea of editorial authority while exercising incredible editorial authority.” How Fox News has managed to take any criticism and label it as persecution.
Poor Glenn Beck can’t stop being bested by Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart. First, Colbert and Stewart blew Beck’s rally on the National Mall out of the water with the Rally to Restore Sanity, and now they are beating Beck in Time magazine’s reader poll for 2010 person of the year.
On his Fox News program today Glenn Beck claimed that while Jon Stewart’s rally had been co-opted by the left, he still wished him luck with rally and then jumped on the Jon Stewart bandwagon by saying, “Jon we disagree on a great many things, but I don’t think we disagree of the type of people that we need to be as individual Americans.”
Jon Stewart managed to do something with his Rally to Restore Sanity that hasn’t been done in a long time. He confused the mainstream media to the point of a near collective nervous breakdown. The media couldn’t figure out what this rally was about, and it was only when Stewart explained it to them that they realized that it was about them.
Everyone knew today’s Rally to Restore Sanity would be a hit, and if the independent estimates of crowd size are any indication, Jon Stewart’s rally was the most well attended of the year as it is estimated that at least 250,000 people attended. This number easily doubles and almost triples the attendance for Glenn Beck’s Rally to Restore Honor.
In what can best be described as a delusional rant, on his radio show today, Rush Limbaugh wove a tale of how the Rally to Restore Sanity helps Republicans. Limbaugh called Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, “half baked comedians,” and claimed that they tell, “Putrid jokes.” Limbaugh also predicted that the rally will draw 65,000 people.
The Fox News paranoia over Jon Stewart’s Rally to Restore Sanity reached Tom Ridge terror alert level red today, as Monica Crowley claimed on Fox Business that, “Well, but there are a lot of union members who are actually being bused in at gunpoint by their union leadership.”
On his radio show today, Glenn Beck continued his attack on Jon Stewart’s Rally to Restore Sanity. Beck claimed that that unless Stewart draws a million people, the rally is a failure. Beck said, “If there’s not a million people at the mall…There should be 300 million people on the mall or they are absolutely the most powerless people on the planet.”