LOL That was funny. Isn’t it cool how you can edit media to slant any view you want. Ahhh the art of propaganda…

It must be very disheartening to Stewart knowing that all his bluster & hyperbole hasn’t lessened FNC’s reach and audience whatsoever. But, like Libs everywhere are fond of saying, Stewart ‘Means well.’

Conservatives only watch and get their information from conservative media. That’s why they don’t watch Stewart.

Jon- just another hypocritical lib who loves to carry Barry’s water.

m- Mr. Hypocrite Central.

Bernie is right!

If you really think Stewart needed to edit those clips to make it seem like Fox was generalizing about liberals you’re even more drunk off the Fox News Kool Aid than I thought.

What is frightening is how people are such cheerleaders for a FREAKING NEWS CHANNEL. They’re not your friends, they’re not your buddies, and they’re certainly not looking out for you. Grow a brain and think for yourself. That goes for MSNBC and whatever liberal media outlets you wanna cite as well. They’re all slanted towards some agenda and the fact that some of you like to defend them just shows how brainwashed you are.

Fox’s “reach”? Come on now. I watch Fox just so I can see what the right wing thinks about things, but the people who get their news from Fox ONLY get their news from Fox because they only want to hear things that support their already-established worldview (this is exactly what the “traitor” Tom Coburn was trying to say). They are so convinced of the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy of the “lamestream media” that they have their TVs permanently set to Fox News. Just as MSNBC increasingly does, they are preaching to the choir. I hate to break it to you, but they’re not changing anyone’s mind. They owe their astronomical ratings to a devoted fan base who simply won’t watch anything else. Fox has no “reach”.

Mr. DeRosa, you are a breath of fresh breath around here. Unfortunately it’s only a matter of time before the crazies/smarmy douchebags chase you off.

Cubby, you ARE one of those douchebags.

Yeah, like Stewert gives a damn about fauxnews viewers. He is talking to his audience. Liberals couldn’t care less about what any conservative thinks. We are laughing at you because it’s funny. Conservatives for most part are walking joke machines. There is no convincing a fauxnews viewer of anything. Why would anyone want to? They have a herd mentality that prevents them from thinking for themselves. To be a liberal you have to be able to think for yourself. Conservatives have to follow the rules of whoever they are worshiping at that moment.

Throw their own facts at them and watch them run. Those that don’t can literally be seen trying to convince themselves that they are right. That’s why most them have a confused look on their faces.

The best thing they can do is watch television.

I share Stewart’s conclusion every bit as much as I object to his language.

Republicans — You guys are so full of crap.

Palin 2012

Hey, Jon. You’re Jewish and Obama’s pastor is best friends with a well-known jew hater. Do some jokes on that.

I am trying to figure out what part of the comments about libs was generalization? Looks they were right on tartget. Just look at the Huffington Post, Media matters and moveon.org. They don’t represent libs?

Love his show, and still do; but I have to admit, it is getting annoying…his personal war on Fox news.

We get it, Jon, you don’t like Fox news. So don’t watch it. Nobody’s putting a gun to your head and force you to watch it.

By in large, Stewart have done far more anit-Fox news stories than he have done anti-media stories where there is a clear slant…esp against Conservatives (understandably so, since Stewart is a Progressive). Don’t recall he was as hard on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, or MSNBC when they were attacking McCain (I used McCain as an example because he is CLEARLY not a Conservative). Had McCain been a Democrat, I’m sure Stewart’s actions would’ve been different.

Double Standard, Stewart? Stick with comedy…

btw…the FACT that Stewart had to preface his show as a “Fake News Program” shows that he has an agenda, and I believe it is to hide behind this statement to indoctrinate his audience to join him in his personal war against Fox News (eg…plausible deniability)

of course, this is just my opinion…

James Taylor: Thank you for your intelligent rebuttal of my point.

Ah, how clever. Using the F— work. I am surprised no one ever thought of using the F— word before. Maybe they can give Mr. Stewart an Emmy for his use of the F— word.

Stewart is like Bill Maher. Somehow his far left vitriol and insults don’t count as bias, since he prefaces it by saying he’s a comedian.

Stewart is 100% biased, but that doesn’t make what he is saying any less true.

I wish he would spend more time pointing out the hypocrisy of liberal media outlets. He has but not nearly as much as Fox.

The difference is, Fox News pretends to be a news network. Jon is a comedian.

Back in January Rachel Maddow read a list of talking points from Frank Luntz on how to kill financial reform. She warned that we should all be on the look out for this nonsense. Well, Mitch McConnel starting spewing them yesterday and is now starring in a DNC ad which blasts him for his duplicity. So, when you watch fox you get lies and spin. When I watch Rachel Maddow I don’t see the bullshit that comes from fox. I’m with Jon on his suggestion to the whores at fox news. A previous commenter had it right. People watch fox because they tell you what you want to hear. It’s not about news. It’s about what they want you to think is news. Now, while they pulled Hannity from the teabagger reach around last night, I don’t understand why they hadn’t done it last year. Several of the on air “talent” has been appearing at and cheerleading these bullshit protests since last year. I’m not sure why Jon had Luntz appear in a skit last night either.

By the way, those of you who think fox is news should explain their latest piece of bullshit which Stewart caught on Wednesday’s show. According to fox, the logos on the stage during the Nuclear Summit last week were some sort of coded message to Islamic nations. As ThinkProgress and Rachel Maddow points out “Stewart discovered that the logo was actually modeled after the Rutherford-Bohr atomic model, so “it turns out the people at the White House are not secret Muslims. They’re nerds.”
While the skit was hysterical it also shows fox to be either ignorant of the facts which is what a news org is supposed be gather or worse, they deliberately mislead their viewers. No wonder they sound like idiots when they open their mouths. They get their “news” from fox and are badly misinformed.

Sorry, that’s supposed to gather.

Stewart is a political satirist, self proclaimed. He hardly invented this and it’s been a part of the political landscape for hundreds and hundreds of years. It’s good to have an outlet where we can laugh at ourselves and the world around us. I believe his viewers are intelligent enough to understand what they’re watching. We realize that he uses sound bites. We realize that he exaggerates. We realize that he’s waging a personal war on Fox News and it cracks us up. Stewart does not give us the who, what, when, where, and why that is the news and he readily admits it. He does, however, provide us with information. With said information in hand I do my research and come to my own conclusions.

On the other hand we have Fox News which is news commentary that calls itself the news. They dish out the various parts of the five W’s (and some well placed lies) that they want their viewers to obsess about and pray that their viewers don‘t go researching the facts. Although Beck was recently quoted saying that he doesn’t care about political process, and states “I’m in the entertainment business”, you probably could not convince his viewers of that.

But, of course, I’m generalizing.

2008: The Pew Research Center recently found that audiences for “The Daily Show” and “The Colbert Report” were better informed about the world around them than the general population, scoring in the highest percentile on knowledge of current events.

“Obama is Bush-light.”

lebowitz

The only “point” lebowitz ever made is that he is on the comedy channel. Hence, the term “fake news program.”

So, Stewart mocks Fox on stereotypes. As if, they are the only ones who do this. I know I have seen O’reilly talk about liberals. But many times point out, he is not talking about all of them. Usually, he makes it clear it is some on the far left. I would wager , if all of those clips of Fox were played in their entirety , that is what the others would have mentioned. But that is not funny.
Has MSNBC done this ? Sure.

Big Ed : “Hold it right there,” Schultz said. “The Republicans lie. They want to see you dead. They‘d rather make money off your dead corpse.

Olbermann : By this definition, the leading terrorist group in this world right now is al-Qaeda. But the leading terrorist group in this country right now is the Republican Party.”

And looky here. Stewart himself….

“If you are a minority or an interest group,” Jon Stewart began, “the Democrats will hold a debate at your house. Whereas Republicans take a slightly different approach. They have a big tent. You’re just not allowed in it.

O.K. They are talking about Republicans . Fox was talking about Libs . Conservatives would be a better comparison. How about this…..

On the Daily Show, Jon Stewart made the bold statement, “[The Olympics] are proof that conservatives hate Obama more than they love America.” While their reaction to this event certainly demonstrates this is true, their actions go well beyond merely cheering the loss of the Olympics.
Ooops. Stewart again.

Go MOCK yourself , Jon.

@batgirl2010

“2008: The Pew Research Center recently found that audiences for “The Daily Show” and “The Colbert Report” were better informed about the world around them than the general population, scoring in the highest percentile on knowledge of current events.”

I have 2 points to make regarding your post:

1) Isn’t this the same pew research group that found Fox News the most balanced in coverage for the 2008 election among all news network (Cable and Network)? Or am I wrong?

2) By their research findings, can Stewart and Colbert honestly say that people don’t take what they say serious because they are comedians? Of course they know their audience take them seriously; which is why they hide behind their “comedy act” routine while spreading propaganda…again, plausible denial-ability.

they (Stewart) have no right to criticize Fox (or any network for that matter); he is equally guilty of the acts he is accusing them of spewing…

Poor ignorant Batgirl, “On the other hand we have Fox News which is news commentary that calls itself the news.”
Would someone please inform this nut that Beck, O’Reilly, Hannity and ReGreatable are not NEWS, they are clearly labeled commentary.
Anyone that thinks the loons on the left aren’t stupid just look at how many times we have to explain the differnce between news and commentary.

Cubby says:
April 16, 2010 at 10:43 am

James Taylor: Thank you for your intelligent rebuttal of my point.”

Poor chubby, I just used your intelligent words to respond to you, Mr. liberal.

Cubby: “I hate to break it to you, but they’re not changing anyone’s mind.” And you know this how??

The question is , are they drawing over their base audience?

From the NYTs, Cubby:

CNN Fails to Stop Fall in Ratings
By BILL CARTER
Published: March 29, 2010

“Fox News, which had its biggest year in 2009, continues to add viewers. Greta Van Susteren’s show was up 25 percent from a year earlier. Bill O’Reilly, whose show commands the biggest audience in prime time with 3.65 million viewers, was up 28 percent, and Glenn Beck was up 50 percent from a year earlier. ”

Oh, snap, Cubby- you lose!

If you want to put Fox News on the same level, news-wise, as Jon Stewart, be my guest. It just goes to further prove their illegitimacy as a “news network”

Stewart is a comedian and doesn’t pretend to be anything else. Fox News pretends to be a “news network”

Stewart is a comedian and doesn’t pretend to be anything else. Fox News pretends to be a “news network””

You have already said that and you left out CNN, MSNBC, CBS, NBC, and ABC as masquerades of news programs.

CNN, MSNBC, CBS, NBC, and ABC are masquerades of news programs as well.

There is bias all over the media, which Stewart points out and mocks. He has done it to the other networks but not nearly as much as Fox. I wish he would but he’s a comedian and has no journalistic duty to do so, he’s going to do what gets the most laughs.

What makes me laugh is that people think you have to be a cheerleader for the left wing or right wing media, when the issue is there are left and right wing media to begin with rather than unbiased news sources, that don’t exist.

That’s the problem.

@ Bias-Media 1)The pew research group did not find that Fox News was the most balanced. The poll reported only demographics. Fox News took that information and proclaimed themselves to be the most fair and unbiased. Surprise, surprise, surprise.

2) I can’t say what Stewart and Colbert think. I’m not trying to get inside their minds anymore than I want to get inside Becks mind, I can say that they (Stewart and Colbert) have stated that they are political satirists. They are not the only satirists around and television is not the only media that satirists use. Are political satirist biased? Of course they are. Fair and balanced isn’t funny. However, more often than not, when I’ve questioned their information, when I’ve researched their information, I find them to be more factual than Fox.

I don’t think it’s fair to wag the finger at Stewart and Colbert. They do what they do. They state what they are. Political satire is defined as Irony, sarcasm, or caustic wit used to attack or expose folly, vice, or stupidity. They are hardly the only ones doing it. Instead of drawing cartoons, they have tv shows. And they have every right The Constitution grants them.

@ Gordon: I previously wrote, “Beck was recently quoted saying that he doesn’t care about political process, and states “I’m in the entertainment business”. With that statement I thought that one could conclude that I realize that Beck, et. el are entertainers, commentators. I went on to write “you probably could not convince his viewers of that.” I’m not concerned about not knowing the difference myself, I get it. It’s Fox viewers who I am afraid do not know the difference.

Poor bat, “we have Fox News which is news commentary that calls itself the news”

That statement explains itself. The NEWS does not call itself commentary, does it?

The “news” portions of Fox are as biased as the “commentary” programs.

Stewart points this out on a regular basis. Here’s maybe his best satire on the subject…

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-october-29-2009/for-fox-sake-

For what it’s worth, if the right was able to find someone as funny as Stewart to focus more on MSNBC and similar liberal-leaning outlets, I would watch it, laugh, and LOVE it.

Would you be happier if I strike the word ‘news” and replace with the word ‘social’ before the word ‘commentary’? Then we would have Fox news is social commentary. Then I could strike “that calls itself the” and replace with “masquerading”. So, now I have “Fox news is social commentary masquerading as NEWS. ” I like that better. Thanks.

Roxy, please show us where the crescent is in the Rutherford-Bohr atomic model.

Poor Anthony De Rosa , let me show ya some real bias. I guess you just missed these, eh?

NBC’s Tom Brokaw crying on- the- air over BO and ABC’s George Stephanopoulos crying on the phone phone to his wife over BO .

MSNBC- Matthews saying he gets a “tingle” in his legs when BO speaks and says it is “his duty” to make sure the BO admin is successful.

KO’s program has become a one hour BO administration defender actually searching the media to find anything he believes was unfair to Bo and attacking the sources.

The president of MSNBC admitted MSNBC decided to be left of center to counter FOX.

Time- 13 covers of BO more than any other person.

Newsweek – At least two opinion pieces that said the US was “r@cist” if BO was not elected.

did someone say F u @ % k fox news? oh come on- not all of FOX news. Just the ones that are anti-Obama……….hmmmmm……come to think of it …ur right mr Stewart!

This silly little man would give his left nut to have a show on Fox News Channel. Sorry, Charlie, they don’t hire losers.

Fox Not News Channel would give the left nuts of Hannity, O’Reilly, Beck (if they had any balls) to have Jon Stewart on the FNNC infotainment lineup. Sorry, Sunny, Jon has integrity – and that’s a fatal flaw for FNNC employees. The requirement there is to have zero integrity.

James, thanks for helping me make my point but I’m a bit confused. Exactly what part of all news outlets, Fox and MSNBC included are biased of my comments did you not understand. Put down your pom poms and try using some reading comprehension for a moment.

@Anthony De Rosa: Though I’ve never used the word “cheerleader”, I have on a few occasions (in comments to another media site) compared it to rooting for the local sports franchise. Whenever the stats come in, there always seems to be a bunch of non-players ready to start screaming “We’re #1″.

Jon Taylor? Who’s he? Is he somebody famous? Never heard of him.

The most damning evidence that Fox News is in the tank for the right is that … RIGHT WINGERS ARE CONSTANTLY DEFENDING IT! There is almost religious-like reverence of Fox News among conservative Internet story commenters Why would anyone be attached to a boring straight-laced objective news network? People are not just attached to individual Fox News hosts, but also the network as a whole. What liberals fervently defend CNN and MSNBC the way conservatives defend Fox?

HELL YEAH JOHN STEWART. Literally couldn’t stop laughing. Thank God SOMEONE on TV is speaking the truth!

Poor Jon Stewart must have lagging ratings again. He keeps using Fox News to prop up his silly show. Fox should ignore this twit and not give him what he wants, RATINGS!

Why is Fox so threatened by a comedian? Jon Stewart is on COMEDY CENTRAL for Palins sake. He doesn’t pretend to be anything But a comedian. They constantly say he has sagging ratings but give him an endless supply of material. Beck should put that circle on his chalkboard.

Nope, not disheartened.

This thread is old, but I feel the need to reply to it, nonetheless… FOX news is NOT news.  They spin, generalize and outright LIE about many “facts” that they present to the viewing public.  If you look at who actually OWNS the companies that produce “news”, you will find that they are owned by a handful of conservative capitalists… not people who are interested in truth, the world as a whole or the American public’s right to unbiased reporting of current events. 

The reason for this is, if you control the information the masses receive, you can control the outcomes of many political races, hot-button issues and our cultural world-view. 

If you disagree with this, you are blind, ignorant and are unable to do any real research of your own, or refuse to, making you a band-wagon jumper and a pretender to truth.  Someone that just parrots what they see and hear on television is not intelligent. They’re just dumb animals performing mimicry tricks. 

How’s that hand up your ass feeling these days, puppet?