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Stewart to Maddow: You’re making the rest of us look bad
Rachel Maddow was Jon Stewart’s guest on Thursday’s “The Daily Show,” there to discuss her new book, Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power. According to Stewart, most TV personalities and talk show hosts who write books do so while making a conscious effort to do it as “cheaply, easily…
Stewart: ‘Mr. President, we can hear you capitulating to the Russians’
On Wednesday night’s edition of The Daily Show, host Jon Stewart played back the now-infamous “hot mic” incident from President Obama’s trip to South Korea for a nuclear summit earlier this week. While Republicans were quick to attack the president for what they perceived as electoral hubris, Stewart sees another…
Jon Stewart laughs at Lawrence O’Donnell for ‘grilling a chair’
Daily Show host Jon Stewart on Tuesday was highly entertained by a segment on MSNBC, where the lawyer for George Zimmerman pulled out of a scheduled interview and host Lawrence O’Donnell angrily questioned an empty chair. “He’s grilling the chair!” Stewart laughed. “No, the chair doesn’t have medical records to…
Jon Stewart mocks media over Trayvon Martin coverage
After returning from his vacation on Monday night, Daily Show host Jon Stewart took on the controversy surrounding the tragic shooting of Florida teen Trayvon Martin. Although Stewart had hoped to fill his segment with inevitable Dick Cheney heart transplant jokes, he could not avoid the Trayvon Martin story. “I…
Jon Stewart: Why won’t Gingrich quit?
The dominant media narrative going into Tuesday’s Republican primary voting in Alabama, Mississippi, Hawaii and American Samoa was that Newt Gingrich must carry the south or leave the race. On Wednesday night’s The Daily Show, host Jon Stewart took a moment to survey the aftermath and to ponder what will…
Jon Stewart: Fox, shut the f*ck up about how victimized you are
Daily Show host Jon Stewart on Tuesday night took Fox News to task for responding to the controversy surrounding Rush Limbaugh by claiming he was just a comedian. “Nobody is hiding behind comedy,” he noted. “And there are repercussions for what comedians say. When you’re doing it in a club,…
Jon Stewart challenges Grover Norquist on ‘absolutist’ anti-tax pledge
Daily Show host Jon Stewart debated Americans for Tax Reform president Grover Norquist on Monday night, questioning whether his influential pledge was realistic. Nearly every Republican in Congress has signed Norquist’s Taxpayer Protection Pledge, vowing to oppose any and all tax increases. Only 14 Republican members of 112th Congress have…
Jon Stewart: Media just ‘annoyed’ Rihanna didn’t retweet their Kony coverage
On his show Monday night, Jon Stewart took on the “Kony 2012″ viral video, which called for greater efforts to arrest the fugitive head of Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance Army. “The media just seems annoyed that it took this guy to get people to listen,” he joked. Both CNN’s Anderson Cooper…
Jon Stewart mocks Breitbart’s Obama footage
Daily Show host Jon Stewart made fun of Sean Hannity on Thursday night for hyping a video that showed President Barack Obama introducing Harvard law professor Derrick Bell. In the video from 1990, Obama is seen encouraging students to “open up your hearts and minds to the words of Professor…
Jon Stewart laments ‘never-ending gobstopper’ GOP primary
On his show Wednesday night, Daily Show host Jon Stewart compared the Republican presidential primary to Zeno’s paradox, claiming candidates could never actually arrive at the endpoint. “All I heard was that Tuesday was Super Tuesday,” he said, “because we would finally have a decisive night, one that would finally…
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