Jon Stewart is famous for his legendary take-downs of Fox News, but in an interview with Rolling Stone, he says The Daily Show and Fox are not so different from one another.

President Obama took friendly fire Wednesday as former vice president and environmental advocate Al Gore said the president had “failed” in his handling of global climate change. Gore, writing in Rolling Stone, says Obama has not made the case for action by the American people. “President Obama has thus far failed to use the bully pulpit to make the case for bold action on climate change. After successfully passing his green stimulus package, he did nothing to defend it when Congress decimated its funding.”

Roger Ailes, the head of the Fox News Channel, is written about very extensively in the latest issue of Rolling Stone. The author of the piece, Tim Dickinson, appeared last night on MSNBC with substitute anchor Thomas Roberts and continued his unflattering description of Ailes, “the Chairman,” as a “deeply paranoid” but extremely powerful man.

Fox News chief Roger Ailes is being profiled a lot lately, and now Rolling Stone magazine took a crack with their article “How Roger Ailes Built the Fox News Fear Factory.” Yet Rush Limbaugh has seen enough and took on the “arrogance and smugness” of the writer, and defended the intelligence of Fox News viewers in the process.

On today’s Hardball, Chris Matthews was not happy about the Rolling Stone report alleging the U.S. Army used “psychological operations” on senators in order to brainwash them and secure continued support for the war in Afghanistan. Likening the tactic to something straight out of the movie the Manchurian Candidate, Matthews picked likely Republican candidate for President Mitt Romney and challenged him to speak out against the military’s tactic.

In a story breaking overnight that’s sure to explode on cable news through the day, a report in Rolling Stone suggests the U.S. Army deployed a a specialized “psychological operations” team to target Senators in the hopes of boosting funding for the war in Afghanistan. The effort also aimed to increase troop levels, according to the magazine.

The issue has yet to hit newsstands, but Rolling Stone‘s interview with teen pop star Justin Bieber has already created a sensation – and at least a bit of a confusion – online ever since it was revealed that the magazine asked the sixteen-year-old about his thoughts on abortion. As it turns out, the online version of the interview edited the content of Bieber’s original response, slightly altering the tone of his thoughts.

Young singing superstar Justin Bieber opined on some very adult topics in the new edition of Rolling Stone, providing his thoughts on everything from abortion to sex and politics. After also having his songs featured on this week’s episode of the Fox hit Glee, being all over the Grammy Awards and doing impressions of presidents, is there anything the 16 year-old Canadian kid can’t do?

The Beatles have certainly made a splash in the media this year, perhaps more so than most years. Google wished John Lennon a happy 70th birthday with a special video edition of its logo, while Apple made the entire Beatles catalog available on iTunes. Now Rolling Stone is entering the nostalgic arena by releasing recently unearthed clips from what’s believed to be Lennon’s last ever print interview, conducted three days before his death.

“I HAVE never put the make on a girl in my life. I just don’t know how to do it. My instincts are always to leave it to the woman.”

This remark, incredibly, comes from the most dissolute-looking of all the Rolling Stones –- the indestructible Keith Richards.

Pres. Barack Obama fired a shot at Fox News earlier this week when Rolling Stone published an interview with the President that included a less-than-flattering appraisal of the network (“It’s a point of view that I think is ultimately destructive for the long-term growth of a country that has a vibrant middle class and is competitive in the world”). Now, Fox News has begun to fire back.

While President Obama‘s response to a Rolling Stone reporter’s question about Fox News is generating a lot of heat in this news cycle, an arguably more remarkable media angle has gone underreported. The President’s views on Fox are really nothing new, but the White House’s positive name-checking of liberal fire-breather Keith Olbermann represents a significant shift from just a few months ago, when Mediaite asked Robert Gibbs if the administration was worried about losing his support. The question here isn’t “Why the shift?” but rather, “What took so long?”

This week’s issue of Rolling Stone magazine features an interview with Barack Obama, in which the president says that Fox News has “a point of view that I disagree with,” continuing “It’s a point of view that I think is ultimately destructive for the long-term growth of a country.” Bill O’Reilly addressed this issue in his “Barack and a Hard Place” segment with Monica Crowley and Alan Colmes last night, and was surprisingly tolerant and understanding of Obama’s frustration with Fox News.

President Obama has given a lengthy interview to Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner for the upcoming issue of the magazine. The cover story is titled “Obama Fights Back” and boy does he ever. At least where Fox News is concerned. Here’s what he told Wenner regarding the network in what I think could be fairly termed a battle cry of sorts.

Need more evidence that HBO’s serial vampire drama True Blood has entered the zeitgeist? I submit the following: naked and blood-soaked stars of the hit show on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine. E!’s Ryan Seacrest reports on the “controversy” perfectly designed to drum up even more buzz for the True Blood, Rolling Stone and perhaps even Mediaite.

What does a former U.S. General do after being fired/retiring from the military in response to controversial statements he made about his boss, who just happens to be the leader of the free world? Needless to say, it’s not the most desirable state of unemployment. Luckily for Stanley McChrystal, however, the Ivy League had a job opening that only a man with his employment history could fill.

In a recent interview, Michael Hastings, author of the Rolling Stone article that led to the ousting of Gen. Stanley McChrystal, denied claims he broke any pre-arranged ground rules for his story, and added that he had another military embed in Afghanistan. The Pentagon, however, is denying him an embed assignment, citing trust problems.

Now that the media is “all Shirley Sherrod, all the time” (with a dash of Journolist thrown in as well), see if you can work your memory hard enough to picture the golden days of late June 2010, back when it was “all Gen. McCrystal all the time.” Yes, it was just about a month ago that Rolling Stone got their biggest publicity in years. Zeke Turner over at The New York Observer’s Media Mob (and a Mediaite alum, whoo!) got the crazy story today that the article that brought down a five star general was originally supposed to go to GQ.

That was fast, though not unsurprising. Michael Hastings, whose bombshell Rolling Stone profile on General McChrystal made international headlines and resulted in the General’s firing has signed a book deal based on his article.

In the aftermath of Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s firing and inevitable resignation, Michael Hastings has appeared on a few programs defending himself. However, one of his most vocal defenders has been his fellow Rolling Stone writer Matt Taibbi. Having previously written a response to David Brooks’ comment on the subject, Taibbi published a response today to CBS’ Lara Logan where he did not mince words. How unminced was it? Well, the blog post was entitled, “Lara Logan, You Suck.”

Rolling Stone journalist Michael Hastings has apparently returned stateside to continue his media rounds following his bombshell article on General McChrystal that resulted in McChrystal’s firing last week. Hastings told Stephen Colbert last night that he thought the White House had used “this opportunity to get rid of someone they weren’t happy with.”

Last night Bill O’Reilly and Bernie Goldberg discussed the case of Gen. Stanley McChrystal, neither of whom could figure out why Gen. McChrystal would be foolish enough to fall into the trap of big bad Rolling Stones reporter Michael Hastings who O’Reilly charmingly described as a “weasel with a capital ‘W.’” Finally though, the Factor host came up with a bulletproof theory: the reason McChrystal said all of those mean things about the Obama administration was because he’s secretly a liberal! Of course!

Less than a week after Gen. Stanley McChrystal was replaced as the commander of military efforts in Afghanistan, Fox News is reporting that the four star general intends to retire. McChrystal has been in service to the country since 1976.

President Obama may have solved his McChrystal problem but the long tail of the now-infamous Rolling Stone profile is still kicking around the media world. In his column today at the New York Times, David Carr takes Politico and Time to the woodshed for posting a full PDF of the McChrystal story before Rolling Stone made it available on their site.

On Meet the Press this morning Sen. John McCain weighed in on the McChrystal firing deftly walking the high wire between agreeing with President Barack Obama‘s decision to relieve Gen. McChrystal of his duties while also remaining supportive of McChrystal.