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Stewart mistakes Trump and Palin for ‘animal sh*t footage’

On The Daily Show Wednesday night, Jon Stewart viciously mocked real estate mogul Donald Trump and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. Stewart noted that Trump announced — after promising a new “bombshell” about Obama — that he would give $5 million to charity if the President published his college and…

Jon Stewart to Romney: Get a haircut, hippie!

The Daily Show host Jon Stewart on Tuesday night reviewed the final presidential debate, advising peacenik Mitt Romney to “get a haircut, hippie.” Stewart noted that while conservatives had attacked Obama as having a failed foreign policy, it appeared Romney’s own foreign policy was merely a copy of Obama’s. To…

Jon Stewart chastises media for repeating pronouncements from ‘bullsh*t mountain’ Fox News

On his show Monday night, The Daily Show host Jon Stewart skewered Fox News and other conservatives who were outraged that President Barack Obama said the deaths of four Americans in Libya was “not optimal.” Stewart also slammed other media outlets for repeating the “predictable and hyperbolic pronouncements from bullshit…

Matthews and O’Reilly have helium-filled debate for charity

Dueling pundits Chris Matthews and Bill O’Reilly introduced a new element to a debate between them Sunday night — helium. In an appearance on the “Night of Too Many Stars” benefit show organized by Daily Show host Jon Stewart, Matthews and O’Reilly agreed to square off in a discussion with…

Obama to Jon Stewart: Congress needs to rein in the presidency

During an appearance on The Daily Show, President Barack Obama reaffirmed his belief that Guantanamo Bay should be shut down and said Congress needed to “rein in” presidential power. “There’s some things that we haven’t gotten done, I still want to close Guantanamo, we haven’t been able to get that…

Obama tells Jon Stewart: No confusion over Benghazi attack

NEW YORK — US President Barack Obama denied on Thursday there had been “confusion” in his administration over the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi which killed four Americans. Obama, appearing on Comedy Central TV’s the Daily Show, professed confidence that he will win another four years in the…

Stewart: ‘Binders of women’? Why not ‘book of broads’ or ‘notebook of nipples’?

On Wednesday night’s edition of “The Daily Show,” host Jon Stewart recapped Tuesday night’s debate between President Barack Obama and Republican nominee former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA) and dinged Romney on his awkward invocation of the “binders full of women” who were brought to him as prospective cabinet members. The…

Filmmaker Eugene Jarecki: Drug war fuels industrialized mass incarceration

Appearing Tuesday night on The Daily Show, filmmaker Eugene Jarecki explained how the “failed” war on drugs was fueled by corporate-interests. “It has to do with business,” he told Jon Stewart. “This country is finding, everywhere we look, we are seeing places where the extraordinary power of corporations in this…

Jon Stewart rips apart Ryan over failed photo-op

The Daily Show host Jon Stewart blasted vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan on his show Tuesday night, expressing astonishment that someone could make volunteering at a soup kitchen look bad. The GOP running mate had allegedly “ramrodded” his way into the soup kitchen to pose for a photo op, where…

Jon Stewart: Fox News so desperate to spin VP debate they had to call a doctor

On his show Monday night, The Daily Show host Jon Stewart lampooned the reaction to the vice presidential debate at Fox News. Stewart noted that while the liberal hosts on MSNBC accepted that Romney outperformed Obama during their first debate, the hosts at Fox News did everything they could to…