The Daily Show Swats Both Sides Of White House/Fox News Feud

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by Steve Krakauer | 10:36 am, October 30th, 2009

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Just as the White House vs. Fox News feud is winding down (actually, not at all), Jon Stewart and The Daily Show are weighing in.

In what was his final show of October, he addressed the ongoing feud that began heating up as the month started – and he hit both sides for different reasons.

His main point about Fox News was that, while there was a defined line between Fox “News” and Fox “Opin-utainment,” there were specific instances where the two sides fed off of and into each other. Using the Obama song in the New Jersey classroom as the jumping off point, he laid out the cycle. “Public school officials in Burlington, New Jersey are being accused of indoctrinating their students,” said Bret Baier in a clip, followed by Stewart: “Yes, they are being accused – by the guy whose show is on right before you! I’m amazed he didn’t bring it up to you, when you had lunch.”

But he also picked apart the White House arguments. After playing Valerie Jarrett‘s comment, “I don’t want to just generalize that all Fox is biased or another station is biased,” during her recent interview with Campbell Brown, Stewart responded, “You don’t want to generalize? You just did! What was that the old you from eight words ago?”

MSNBC is probably not going to love Stewart’s description of them as the “Toledo Mud Hens to Fox’s Yankees” as well.

Here’s the full clip, and stay tuned to the end for the f-bomb-laden kicker about ‘truth to power’:

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rmbltmbl

When people complain about your Glenn Beck posts.. they need to see how you post about Stewart.
schmoe

The Daily Show is brutal in exposing Fox bias. Hysterically funny. This isn’t just one incident. This happens all the time.
ImNotBlue

rmbtmbl, what specifically got your goat in this one?
hey man

So what? everyone is biased,we’re human.
m

Holy crap. This Daily Show segment was amazing!
Jim R

Excellent segment by Jon, as usual.

He shreds the Fox nonsense that there’s a difference between their news and opinion shows while stipulating the WH staff are rank amateurs compared to Fox’s propagandists.

It should be interesting to see if the short term ratings glee is followed by long term credibility problems for Fox amongst the populace, since polling already demonstrates they’re rightly perceived as Republican partisans.
rmbltmbl

ImNotBlue says:

they make the point for Stewart, they mock Beck and use any excuse they can come up with to discredit him or push alternative motives for his show. You can be biased all you like(like Beck and Stewart), just be honest about being so.
ImNotBlue

rmbltmbl says:
October 31, 2009 at 9:11 am

Oh well… that’s obvious! It’s Mediaite. If they hated Beck any more than they currently do… Abrams might actually be able to get back on MSNBC!

Every post, a Beck slam.

Jim R says:
October 31, 2009 at 2:40 am
…since polling already demonstrates they’re rightly perceived as Republican partisans.

And the same polling shows the majority thinks the rest of the media is Liberal partisans. Somehow, I doubt this will have much of any effect… but you know, pick and choose your “facts” to support your theories.