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Jon Stewart rips Obama for aggressive investigation of whistle-blowers instead of bankers
On his show Thursday night, The Daily Show host Jon Stewart blasted the Obama administration for aggressively investigating whistle-blowers who talked to the press. He noted that while federal prosecutors had come down hard on hackers and “potheads,” the Obama administration tip-toed around potentially criminal bankers who caused the financial…
Stewart asks O’Reilly: Do you get ‘sexual’ thrill from bashing Obama?
During Wednesday night’s episode of “The Daily Show,” host Jon Stewart confronted his Fox News frenemy Bill O’Reilly over the intensity of their focus on the Obama administration’s recent scandals, asking if there’s some kind of “sexual arousal” or “joy” in the Fox offices over the Associated Press spying and…
Jon Stewart exposes ridiculous fawning over Apple at Senate hearing
On his show Wednesday night, The Daily Show host Jon Stewart pointedly mocked a Senate hearing on Apple’s questionable tax practices. The tech giant pays a lower corporate tax rate than Walmart and uses offshore tax havens to avoid paying tens of billions in taxes. Apple CEO Tim Cook testified…
Jon Stewart mocks eccentric alleged crack-smoking Toronto mayor Rob Ford
Toronto mayor Rob Ford was simply trying to clean up his city by smoking all the crack cocaine in it, according to Jon Stewart of The Daily Show. Stewart on Tuesday night was delighted to learn of the eccentric mayor’s latest scandal. As Stewart showed, the mayor has already been…
Jon Stewart: ‘Yes, we motherf*cking can’ fix Veterans Affairs backlog
In a segment titled “Operation Enduring Wait,” The Daily Show host Jon Stewart on Monday night ripped into the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs for failing to process a massive number of disability benefits claims. Stewart has repeatedly mocked and criticized the Obama administration for its failure to clean up…
Stewart mocks horse-race media for ‘attention span of a concussed goldfish’
As President Barack Obama fights himself on a three-and-a-half-year long “race up shit’s creek,” Jon Stewart pointed out, his best hope would be the fact that Beltway media, cursed by “the attention span of a concussed goldfish,” was already laying out predictions for the 2016 elections, despite the fact that…
Jon Stewart calls out Rumsfeld and Cheney: Obama’s transgressions don’t wipe away yours
The Daily Show host Jon Stewart ripped into Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney on Wednesday for their sanctimonious criticism of the current administration, saying President Barack Obama’s transgressions didn’t absolve them of their own. Stewart lamented that conservatives now had government scandals to be justifiably outraged about. Many right-wing commentators…
Jon Stewart’s Iranian journalist friend: Regime uses ‘sick’ homoerotic torture for ‘entertainment’
An Iranian journalist who’s now the subject of comedian Jon Stewart’s upcoming film “Rosewater” told “The Daily Show” host and a crowd gathered by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) last week that he and others have endured “sick” homoerotic torture, apparently for their captors’ mere “entertainment.” Maziar Bahari was…
Jon Stewart angrily mocks IRS for emboldening the ‘tin foil-behatted’
On his show Monday night, The Daily Show host Jon Stewart slammed the IRS for singling out tea party groups for extra scrutiny. He said the scandal essentially justified the views of anti-government “tin foil-behatted” conspiracy theorists. But Stewart eventually calmed himself down and restore his faith in the government…
Jon Stewart mocks ‘tragedy tick’ Nancy Grace for sadistically feeding off human suffering
On his show Thursday night, The Daily Show host Jon Stewart ruthlessly lampooned Nancy Grace of CNN Headline News. Remarking on her coverage of the Jodi Arias case, Stewart remarked that Grace drew “youth and vitality from human tragedy.” “But now the verdict is in, the trial is over, what…
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