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Stewart: Please, Stop With the Chelsea Wedding!

Daily Show host mocks nuptuals coverage

(Newser) - Chelsea Clinton's wedding drew the nation's media to Rhinebeck, New York, but it left them milling about town without anything to report on, Jon Stewart noted as he mercilessly lampooned coverage of the event. Amid the desperate search to find something relevant to report on as the wedding took place...

Stewart Trashes Media's Reaction to Obama on View

'Nothing Obama does will ever make you f---ing happy'

(Newser) - Jon Stewart has a question for right-wing pundits outraged over President Obama's appearance on The View: "Do you idiots have any short-term memory at all?" If The View is somehow beneath the office of president, Stewart asked last night on the Daily Show , how about George and Laura Bush's...

Jon Stewart: Wikileaks Scoop 'F***ed Up'

Also funny: Bradass87

(Newser) - Jon Stewart brought his wit to bear on the Wikileaks saga last night, marveling at both the absurdity of the leak—which involved someone named ‘BradAss87’ using Lady Gaga as a cover to steal the documents—and the horrible information it revealed. After poking fun at Mr. Bradass, Stewart...

Jon Stewart: Fox Is Afraid of Muslims

ABC takes some lumps as well

(Newser) - Do you love to watch Jon Stewart rip on Fox News? Because the Huffington Post sure does. It points out this delightful clip from last night's Daily Show, in which Stewart rakes Fox over the coals for its persistent Islamophobia, highlighting first its over-the-top reaction to NASA's Muslim outreach programs,...

Women of the Daily Show: No Boys' Club Here

Staffers defend Jon Stewart from 'sexist' charges

(Newser) - The female staff members of the Daily Show have released a message on the program's website rejecting the allegations that Jon Stewart is a sexist who runs the show with "joyless rage." In their message (addressed to "Dear People Who Don't Work Here") they point out...

Stewart Explains GOP's Beef With Kagan: She's a Jew

Daily Show dissects the confirmation hearings

(Newser) - Jon Stewart thinks he's discovered the real reason Republicans don't like Elena Kagan. After poring over clips of her confirmation hearings—in which they made sidelong references to her "background" and "beliefs" and New York upbringing, Stewart cracked, "Let's cut to the chase: You're a Jew! You're...

'Jezebel Thinks I'm a Sexist Prick': Stewart
 'Jezebel Thinks I'm 
 a Sexist Prick': Stewart 
plus: the kevin bacon game!

'Jezebel Thinks I'm a Sexist Prick': Stewart

But sexism claims take backseat to Kevin Bacon

(Newser) - Jon Stewart went on a rant last night ostensibly related to Fox News’ insistence that we should never blame George W. Bush for anything, but it took a few turns along the way. He even threw in a line acknowledging Jezebel’s recent take-down of his show: “Jezebel...

Stewart Blasts Obama's Afghan Strategy

'We don't have the momentum, and we're staying the course'

(Newser) - Jon Stewart landed yet another sardonic blow on Barack Obama yesterday in a brief segment on Gen. Petraeus, aka the "Buddha of Fallujah," and the Afghan War. After playing a clip in which Obama said Petraeus "will allow us to maintain our momentum," Stewart unloaded no...

'Joyless' Stewart Running Boys' Club
 'Joyless' Stewart 
 Running Boys' Club 
daily show exposed

'Joyless' Stewart Running Boys' Club

The Daily Show isn't too women-friendly

(Newser) - The Daily Show is a “progressive darling” and almost universally beloved, but it’s no different from other late night television in one way: It’s an all-boys' club. On Jezebel , Irin Carmon talks to a host of former female correspondents and writers, most of whom agree finding their...

Fox Anchor: My Job 'Same as Being Prez'
 Fox Anchor: 
 My Job 'Same 
 as Being Prez' 
jon stewart responds

Fox Anchor: My Job 'Same as Being Prez'

Gretchen Carlson has an inflated view of news anchors

(Newser) - The president has to make many important decisions, like firing Stanley McChrystal—Obama’s job is almost as difficult as, say, the job of a morning program anchor. Wait, what? Yes, Fox & Friends’ Gretchen Carlson made that comparison yesterday, insisting that the president’s “tough, huge, monumental decisions”...

Stewart Takes on McChrystal
 Stewart Takes on McChrystal 
CLOWNS STUCK IN '85

Stewart Takes on McChrystal

'You’re with I’ll Never Print This magazine, right?'

(Newser) - When Stanley McChrystal ill-advisedly referred to National Security Adviser Jim Jones as a “clown who's stuck in 1985,” at least some good came of it: It inspired Jon Stewart ’s impression, last night, of a clown stuck in 1985. After tackling the McChrystal mess, Stewart again hit...

Jon Stewart Evolves Into 'True Satirist'

His attacks on President Obama prove he's not a partisan hack

(Newser) - Jon Stewart has turned on President Obama without mercy , proving himself to be a "true satirist" instead of a partisan ideologue, writes Matt Zoller Seitz. Stewart will go after anyone, but he "reserves particular scorn for those who reawakened his sense of hope just long enough to exploit...

Who Will Replace Larry King?
 Who Will Replace Larry King? 
David Carr

Who Will Replace Larry King?

It's clear the legend can't hack it anymore

(Newser) - If you needed proof that it’s time for Larry King to retire—beyond the plummeting ratings —you got it during his painful interview with Lady Gaga. The interaction was a total dud, despite Gaga’s obvious willingness to have fun. “If he can no longer hit a...

Stewart Tears Into Joe Barton

Apologizing to BP is like defending Jeffrey Dahmer

(Newser) - Jon Stewart turned his attention once more to the Gulf spill, or, as he likes to call it, Day 59 of the Strife Aquatic—which means he naturally had to rip into Joe Barton and his mea culpa , which Stewart likened to saying something as sensible as: "It pains...

Jon Stewart to Obama: You Lied

Prez slammed for broken promises

(Newser) - Jon Stewart launched one of his most blistering attacks yet on President Obama in last night's Daily Show. Stewart blasted Obama for breaking promise after promise to reverse Bush-era abuses of executive power, Gawker notes. He showed campaign footage of Obama making promises on habeus corpus, rendition, and protection for...

Stewart to Obama: 'The Ass Is Kicking You'

Obama gets the dreaded Bush Laugh

(Newser) - Here’s how you know the honeymoon is officially over between the Daily Show and Barack Obama: Last night, Jon Stewart gave Obama the Bush laugh. Mocking Obama’s “whose ass to kick” line, Stewart scrunched up his face and said, “We’re gonna find that oil leak...

Jon Stewart to Helen Thomas: What the F***?

Daily Show host takes on veteran White House reporter

(Newser) - The Daily Show's Jon Stewart had one question for longtime White House reporter Helen Thomas last night: "Helen, what the f---?" Thomas, 89, resigned yesterday after saying Israeli Jews should "get the hell out of Palestine" and go back to Poland, Germany, or wherever they came from. Also...

Stewart Catches Beck in Lie
 Stewart Catches Beck in Lie 

Stewart Catches Beck in Lie

Only Fox will show you this Gaza footage everyone showed you

(Newser) - Oh, that pesky Daily Show and its fact checkers. Glenn Beck worked himself into a good lather the other day, calling out the media for suppressing footage of activists from the Gaza aid flotilla attacking Israeli soldiers with clubs. “That video, you'll be hard-pressed to see it here in...

Stewart, Colbert Join Conan in Epic Danceoff

Comedians join O'Brien on comedy tour

(Newser) - Conan O'Brien's good friends Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert made an appearance last night at the New York City stop of his comedy tour. For what purpose? A dance-off, of course. Back in 2008, the three comedians brawled over who made who—and the battle continued yesterday at the Radio...

Jon to Barack: Get Back to the Motherf?*#king Spill!
 Jon to Barack: 
 Get Back to the 
 Motherf?*#king Spill! 
STILL HAS TIME FOR MARV ALBERT?

Jon to Barack: Get Back to the Motherf?*#king Spill!

Basketball-loving prez has priorities wrong, says Daily Show host

(Newser) - Now that Jon Stewart's back from a 2-week break he thinks the guy in the White House has been enjoying too much R&R with oil still spewing in the Gulf. The Daily Show host presented footage of President Obama vowing not to rest until the Gulf leak was plugged...

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