Jon Stewart Slams Fox News For Being an Appendage of the Republican Party »
Posted By Neophile 10 months, 2 weeks ago in NewsJon Stewart ripped the cable news networks Monday as a "brutish, slow-witted beast" and castigated Fox News in particular as " an appendage of the Republican Party." Amongst his targets: Karl Rove, 24 hour news networks creating false urgency - "the sense that everything is breaking news", and even his colleagues, late-night comics.
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Charlson10 months, 1 week ago
It is incredible that many Americans get their news coverage from Faux News and when they are given evidence of the lies and distortions that Faux routinely dishes out they won't believe their lying eyes. It is a sad commentary about our nation that these folks are just fine with their delusional myopic spin of world and national news. And I guess these so called reporters and commentators at Faux News sleep very well each night knowing they pulled the wool over the gullible masses. It's easy in our capitalistic system to buy intergrity at Faux News.
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Lurch10 months, 1 week ago
If CNN, MSNBC, or whomever sued for the right to lie as a news station, I would dump that station out of principle, whether I agreed with their incredible bias or not.
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Combine that with the polls that show time after time that Faux News viewers are the most ignorant on the news of any TV news viewers. I would be too embarrassed to admit I watched Faux News. -
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tchef10 months, 1 week ago
To me part of the problem with the mainstream media is the fact that we have so many 24 hour news channels. They spend so much time "manufacturing" news that they don't report the actual news. I'm sick of all the shows like Hannity and Colms, or the O'Reilly factor rehashing, and over analyzing everything news story from their viewpoint and telling us what to think. We all need to just stop watching them and let them die.
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cleare10 months, 1 week ago
yeah, there's also the "if it bleeds, it leads" mentality in the "news" media.
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Tangent00110 months, 1 week ago
Sad state of affairs when the most reliable sources for news either come from overseas or are comedy shows.
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simonsez10 months, 1 week ago
If it bothers you, don't watch. I go back and forth from Fox to CNN to get a second opinion and CNN is no more objective than FOX. Then you have MSNBC!
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I thought you guys were for freedom of speech? I don't complain about liberal views on TV. Jon, Stephen and Bill Maher are all good at what they do. But occasionally, I turn them off if it gets too bad.-
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cushi10 months, 1 week ago
I will agree with you that CNN is becoming entirely too much like FOX news for my taste! I do watch MSNBC, which is the lesser of the evils, in my opinion. But they all need an extreme makeover!
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cleare10 months, 1 week ago
i don't think we're talking about OPINION or commentary here, simonsez. we're talking about abuse of FACTS. i've heard so many outright lies on fox that it deserves the nickname "faux news". as of a year or so ago, o'reilly didn't even have a fact checker on staff. he still may not have.
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time to differentiate between fact & fiction; reporters & commentators (including comedians). it's time for americans to stop swallowing verbal diarrhea whole, and start thinking for themselves. -
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Tangent00110 months, 1 week ago
The difference is Jon, Stephen, and Bill, are COMEDIANS, while Fox frequently presents right-wing commentary as if it were news. Memos show maximizing the embarrassment of the left is the standard operating mode as is coordination of talking points with the white house. Of course, there is the gall to call themselves 'Fair and Balanced'.
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Leemck0210 months, 1 week ago
I watch CSpan or CNBC when I can. Do more than complain, send their ratings down, then they will get the hint of what News means. Fuel prices came down some, why? This happened without giving the oil companies more public land or freebies. How did all this come upon us and the News was to busy sniping on Obama? The economy, disaster preparedness, infrastructure, and more are going down and we hardly hear a balanced report for hours of repeating some negative spin on what Obam said. I think the story on McCain's houses is unnecessary too. We say that we don't know what Obama means by change and all the hours and hours of talk that is put out by these sources says, they are talking and saying nothing.
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Shadowolf10 months, 1 week ago
...probably the appendix...small, useless, and prone to infection...needs to be removed...
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Teech10 months, 1 week ago
...Which FOX news would endeavor to do, except that the appendage in question is too small and too impotent to complete the job. Hmmmmmm, sounds Republican to me.
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Leemck0210 months, 1 week ago
We need to hear more about the nation's condition and less about the candidates. If this is a republic and We the People are decision makers, sending our voice through the local to highest levels of government as to what we want done, then we need to know the real "State of the Union". The media still supposes we need a decider. Ask Obama or McCain, when that is not the right approach. We should have ideas that our form of government can sort through to come up with the best choice of the country. I think the Dems under Obama has a better feel for this than more of the 'Family Values' and 'Ra, Ra Conservatism at any cost' meaning ideology by the core group in the GOP. Tax cuts and no jobs, how does that help? From Reagan until now?? That silliness has had a chance. Now the Rich did get richer.
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Beau789010 months, 1 week ago
I couldn't agree more, Leemck. I often listen to NPR, but I've been disgusted lately at the number of stories about things like how Hillary's supporters feel, or what Cokie Roberts thinks about the effect McCain's ads have.
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There is simply not enough news about the issues facing our country, and what each candidate would do about them--along with factual analyses of how the candidates' policies would affect those issues.
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Laura72210 months, 1 week ago
Jon Stewart is a liberal. Big surprise he slams the fairest network on TV. They always have both a democrat and republican to weigh in on a political story. They even waste their time bringing on even more liberal moonbats to try to show they are not biased. Jon Stewart has always been angry at Fox News because they refuse to fall in line with the rest of the left-wing media. Too bad Jon! Oh and by the way you are not funny. Yes, I am a college student in their 20's(Proud conservative), and I do not waste my time watching the The Daily Show.
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nikkibabe10 months, 1 week ago
FOX news or the Republican TV will be shut down effective the morning of Nov. 5th after Obama wins the Presidency and Democrats win majority in Congress. The country had enough.
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They will have nothing to report.
Originally FOX was planning to move to Baghdad but the Iraqi PM Nuri-Al-Maliki is hastening the Bush, McCain and the rest of the Republican war mongers to get out of Iraq ASAP and also give him details when he can see their dirty As%$ out of the door!!!!!! -
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Tcaros10 months, 1 week ago
Fox (faux) News is ridiculous.
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Did you see the reporters talking about the DNC convention? They missed all the important positive stuff.
Some idiot on Fox News would start looking all "serious" and say something like "Do you think the Hillary camp will vote for McCain?"
That's all Fox News talked about all night. It was as if they are part of the McCain campaign phonies.
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markmawn210 months, 1 week ago
I'm thinking armpit.
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It is FOX's lot to do all camera panning this time around. Note that they have only been capturing shots of the audince where someone is looking grim, not paying attention, picking nose, etc. -
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fatcatjrg10 months, 1 week ago
BigBadJohn666...um, more like Big STUPID John. NBC is a FRIGGIN' NETWORK and is NOT LICENSED. Only the NBC O's (look it up) are licensed, you moron. I'll let you get back to your Rush replays now. I'm sure he makes you feel better about your teenie weenie. You're too ignorant to even remotely understand Stewart's classy, truly funny brand of humor.
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fatcatjrg10 months, 1 week ago
Typed in "NBC O and O's" but it came up "O's". Either way, BigDumbJohn won't get it.
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