What he did was an excellent job of laying out Hannity, and showing what a complete fraud he is.

I don’t say this often, but the segment was a brilliantly constructed work of satire.

When the news doesn’t fit your narrative – change the f#@*ing news!

Obama say’s tax’s are going up next year, and oh ya. it was by design? Like, what is that suppose to mean? Better call HGTV and get some help on how to fix the mess he made…

Um, it means that it’s a result of Bush’s policies. Duh.

Cubby said:
Um, it means that it’s a result of Bush’s policies. Duh.

Bush cut tax’s Chubby,That was his design. Obama pushed Free Health Care and is going to let Bushes tax cuts expire to help pay for it. THATS HIS DESIGN!

DUH back at ya fruitcake…

lol, you don’t know about the TRILLION DOLLAR UNPAID tax gut that was passed by the Bush Administration? They railed it through Congress by reconciliation (!).

Fox News doesn’t need to play another “blame Bush” rant. Pres Obama and the Left have whined about Pres Bush so many times that it has become a joke…on them. Which is one reason why so many Democrat’s in Congress will not survive Nov 2.

Did Stewart ever take MSNBC to task for intentionally concealing the race of a person at a tea party rally to fill out a narrative to portray the tea parties as a bunch of racist crazies?

Sean68 said:
Did Stewart ever take MSNBC to task for intentionally concealing the race of a person at a tea party rally to fill out a narrative to portray the tea parties as a bunch of racist crazies?

Most here probably know what I’m referring to, but to fill out the details for thems that don’t: it was a story about tea partiers bringing guns to rallies and implying a dark, racist motivation to the practice. The most incendiary image they used was of a tea partier carrying what appeared to be an automatic rifle, but the image they showed cut him off at the head so his race could not be seen. He was black.

Sean68 said:
Did Stewart ever take MSNBC to task for intentionally concealing the race of a person at a tea party rally to fill out a narrative to portray the tea parties as a bunch of racist crazies?

P.S. I’ll take all negative ratings as an answer in the negative.

But Jon, MSNBC is doing straight up, unbiased journalism.

writer said:
But Jon, MSNBC is doing straight up, unbiased journalism.

That’s the thing. If Stewart were to focus on skewed coverage of MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS he’d never be able to stop. That doesn’t mean excuse Fox for doing it, if they do, but why excuse the others? In the end, the ratings will be the judge, jury, and executioner. Doesn’t that explain Fox’s dominance?

I think we are seeing the last gasps of the MSNBC as we know it. Once Comcast is behind the helm things will change. Doesn’t the Comcast deal close soon?

That’s right dingleBarry, and under the misguided retarded healthcare reform rammed down our throats by you and your goofy-ass retarded goosestepping clingers in congress our healthcare rates are going up even more this year and each year going forward because you, Barry Obysmal, are a stupid f**king dumbass.

Mr B said:
That’s the thing. If Stewart were to focus on skewed coverage of MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS he’d never be able to stop. That doesn’t mean excuse Fox for doing it, if they do, but why excuse the others? In the end, the ratings will be the judge, jury, and executioner. Doesn’t that explain Fox’s dominance?

I think we are seeing the last gasps of the MSNBC as we know it. Once Comcast is behind the helm things will change. Doesn’t the Comcast deal close soon?

Actually Comcast has stated they want to make MSNBC even more liberal. They also want to start a right wing network that is to the right of FNC. Maybe one day people will wake up and realize that 24/7 news is just a reality show now, and that executives at the parent companies dont really care about informing people. They care about entertainment and drawing in more viewers by whatever methods they can.

THank you once again Jon, HIIILARIOUS …….And you old right wing farts think young people are stupid, DUH??!! At least we know that the fox is propaganda plus and you have teh stoopid so bad the fox has you begging to pay the taxes for thr rich

Iris said:
THank you once again Jon, HIIILARIOUS …….And you old right wing farts think young people are stupid, DUH??!! At least we know that the fox is propaganda plus and you have teh stoopid so bad the fox has you begging to pay the taxes for thr rich

Oh, Iris, it’s like you’re not even trying anymore.

Mr B said:
That’s the thing. If Stewart were to focus on skewed coverage of MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS he’d never be able to stop. That doesn’t mean excuse Fox for doing it, if they do, but why excuse the others? In the end, the ratings will be the judge, jury, and executioner. Doesn’t that explain Fox’s dominance?

I think we are seeing the last gasps of the MSNBC as we know it. Once Comcast is behind the helm things will change. Doesn’t the Comcast deal close soon?

But he did say that it’s difficult getting news from partisan news outlets, and he put up MSNBC’s logo on that as well. Also, the comparison between the responses to the speech show that MSNBC has a liberal bias. Then he made fun of them for going against their narrative. That was the point of the joke. Though FOX did get the brunt of that attack, but MSNBC wasn’t let off any hook.

And the thing is, as FOX grows in dominance, as the conservative media gets bigger, then MSNBC (or a liberal equivalent) will start to raise to answer for it. And then, the next thing you know, MSNBC (or equivalent) becomes the ratings monster. It has nothing to do with politics, it has to do with reactions. It’s like in the 70′s, when the film industry was filled with character driven, dark stories (The Godfather, Taxi Driver, The Deer Hunter) but then (thanks to Jaws and Star Wars) the blockbuster became big. It was a reaction, which is why you have the legendary fall of Michael Cimino with Heaven’s Gate. Now, the blockbuster is still big, but the success of smarter films (Inception, District 9) is starting to see a shift away from the bloated big budget dumb films. Pop culture (and MSNBC and FNC are a part of pop culture whether you want to believe that or not) is a pendulum. The same way that no party stays in power forever. We are a reactionary society, and I guarantee, in about 10 years, FNC will not have the ratings it has now, and some other (most likely liberal) station will dominate. That’s the nature of the beast.

If memory serves, wasn’t the reason the “Bush tax cuts” ends this year is because that is what Congress negotiated at the time? I believe they weren’t made permanent at the time because Bush and the Repubs wanted to be “bi-partisan” and have some Democrats on board. If that is the case, Obama was being factually disingenuous (PC term) in his speach, Hannity certainly was being dishonest with his edit, and Stewart is making hay and chuckles with half truths and his own narrative against Fox. Thought anyone?

Sorry for any misspelling!

How many years did the right-wing nuts blame Clinton … about eight!
Even to this day, an occasional RWN will blame Clinton for something.

We get to blame Bush at LEAST eight years.

Founders_were_Liberal said:
How many years did the right-wing nuts blame Clinton … about eight!
Even to this day, an occasional RWN will blame Clinton for something.

We get to blame Bush at LEAST eight years.

What did the right wing blame on Clinton for 8 years?

there was no skewer of MSNBC, it looked like it….BUT….it was a point toward FNC.

Rick Sanchez is the new “person to make jokes about ALOT”

I don’t watch Hannity because I know what he’s going to say and do, but he does bring on opposing guests, or atleast he did, i don’t know anymore.

Dsiscokid said:
If memory serves, wasn’t the reason the “Bush tax cuts” ends this year is because that is what Congress negotiated at the time? I believe they weren’t made permanent at the time because Bush and the Repubs wanted to be “bi-partisan” and have some Democrats on board. If that is the case, Obama was being factually disingenuous (PC term) in his speach, Hannity certainly was being dishonest with his edit, and Stewart is making hay and chuckles with half truths and his own narrative against Fox. Thought anyone?

No, that is not why the tax cuts end this year. It’s because the tax cuts were done under Reconciliation, with 50 Republican senators and Dick Cheney breaking the tie, because they did not have the votes to make it a permanent law. Since reconciliation does not technically allow for the raising of the deficit, they set it to expire at the end of this year, and some how this was legal.

Z_man723 said:
What did the right wing blame on Clinton for 8 years?

Oh, not much just the following:
9/11
the recession post dot.com
the housing boom then recession
Oil spill in the gulf
The invasion of Iraq – Giuliani on David Letterman
North Korea
If you don’t believe me ‘The Daily Show’ did a run down on 6/29/10 in a segment called ‘blame’.

Oh

joeshmoe said:
Oh, not much just the following:
9/11
the recession post dot.com
the housing boom then recession
Oil spill in the gulf
The invasion of Iraq – Giuliani on David Letterman
North Korea
If you don’t believe me ‘The Daily Show’ did a run down on 6/29/10 in a segment called ‘blame’.

Yea let me jump right on using the Daily Show as a reliable source

Its about time someone makes fun of Ariana Huffington’s ridiculous accent. Sounds like she has marbles in her mouth.

Also Sanchez need to get off Twitter, no one gives a shit.

Z_man723 said:
Oh

Yea let me jump right on using the Daily Show as a reliable source

Hey Dumb ass! video doesn’t lie

Shhhhhhhhh don’t tell Iris that Hannity is not a Fox News show. She thinks the Daily Show is a real news show.
Just how dumb is Iris? Let me count the ways.

gordonbloyershow said:
Shhhhhhhhh don’t tell Iris that Hannity is not a Fox News show. She thinks the Daily Show is a real news show.
Just how dumb is Iris? Let me count the ways.

Not following your logic. Are you saying it’s OK for Hannity to purposefully air an edited clip to completely alter the message since he’s on an opinion show and not a ‘hard news’ show? That makes it OK?
I don’t think you’re in a position to be questioning anyone else’s intelligence with that line of reasoning.

gordonbloyershow said:
Shhhhhhhhh don’t tell Iris that Hannity is not a Fox News show. She thinks the Daily Show is a real news show.
Just how dumb is Iris? Let me count the ways.

Bloyer, John Stewart just showed that Fox isn’t real news and Hannity is a liar. Righties have a hard time accepting the facts.

Iris said:
THank you once again Jon, HIIILARIOUS …….And you old right wing farts think young people are stupid, DUH??!! At least we know that the fox is propaganda plus and you have teh stoopid so bad the fox has you begging to pay the taxes for thr rich

Glad to see they’ve let you out of the isolation ward. Too bad the shock therapy didn’t work.

Someone brought this up in another story thread, to which I responded to the effect that there was nothing dishonest about the clip that Hannity showed. The edited clip was no different in meaning from the unedited clip. He clearly was talking about the so-called Bush tax cuts — you know, the tax cuts that were enacted under Bush and that are set to expire next year if Congress doesn’t extend them. Anyone who gets their news from a reliable news source (and that’s certainly not The Daily Show) knows that. The thing that strikes me about this clip is that, after ridiculing Hannity/Fox for showing only a brief clip from Obama’s speech, which Stewart disingenuously claims was taken out of context, he then showed a brief clip from Boehner’s remarks, giving his statement absolutely no context. Either Stewart is a genius for doing precisely what he accused Fox of, or he’s a complete tool. Based on the remarks of his liberal fans here, I’d have to conclude that, if Stewart did that deliberately, it went right over the heads of his liberal lemming audience.

@sean86 – Yes, Stewart dealt with the issue of the black shill who brought the assault weapon to Obama rally http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/daily-show-gun-show-barrel-fever

You have mixed issues. There was no need to for Stewart to address the clip you mentioned because the guy was a right wing shill and they didn’t make an issue out of what race was carrying the gun. Did it matter what color the gun toter was? And if you think they were trying to hide the fact that there are very few black tea partiers, then, it goes back to the guy being a shill and a fraud to begin with. I fail to see your point.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/18/right-wing-radio-host-sta_n_262559.html

Funny, your post in this article was between those two links on a google search… wasn’t very hard to research your inquiry. Therefore, I would say the answer is yes, Daily Show was aware of it and lambasted it for where lambasting was due.

Sean68 said:
Did Stewart ever take MSNBC to task for intentionally concealing the race of a person at a tea party rally to fill out a narrative to portray the tea parties as a bunch of racist crazies?

sean86 – He didn’t need to, the guy was a shill:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/18/right-wing-radio-host-sta_n_262559.html

And yes, he did address the issues:
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/daily-show-gun-show-barrel-fever

I understand the point you are trying to raise but fail to see the merits.

Sean68 said:
Most here probably know what I’m referring to, but to fill out the details for thems that don’t: it was a story about tea partiers bringing guns to rallies and implying a dark, racist motivation to the practice. The most incendiary image they used was of a tea partier carrying what appeared to be an automatic rifle, but the image they showed cut him off at the head so his race could not be seen. He was black.

Why does it have to be white person who is a racist crazy? A black man can be a racist crazy too. The issue was carrying assault weapons to an Obama rally, not crazy racists. Does it matter what color of skin one has to carry an assault weapon. Are you saying that we should automatically assume that a white guy would be the one carrying a weapon to an Obama function? Sounds to me like you are the racist and/or guilty of exactly what they tried to accomplish with their ill conceived skit as the guy was a complete shill for right wing radio. Their goal was to get Obama Feds to crack down on those carrying guns (legally?) so they could say Obama trampled on their second amendment rights. They failed miserably at every level, especially at the level which lights you up. The whole thing was a well orchestrated fraud, and they sure fooled you.