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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 rips apart Rand Paul’s attempted outreach to black students
On The Daily Show Thursday night, host Jon Stewart and correspondent Larry Wilmore mocked Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-KY) recent speech to black students at Howard University. Stewart observed that Paul portrayed himself as courageous and heroic for appearing before the highly prestigious students, which was not a particularly dangerous situation.…
Jon Stewart and senior black correspondent Larry Wilmore skewer voter ID laws
The Daily Show host Jon Stewart blasted Pennsylvania’s voter ID law on his show Tuesday night with some help from senior black correspondent Larry Wilmore. Noting that grandmas and World War II veterans had faced impediments because of the law, Wilmore said lawmakers couldn’t just hope for laws to disproportionally…
Daily Show takes ‘Racist Timeout’ for Trayvon Martin coverage
Wednesday night’s edition of “The Daily Show” featured a discussion in which correspondent Larry Wilmore produced a home kitchen timer and declared a “Racist Timeout.” “For the next five minutes,” he announced, “No one is a racist.” Accusations of racism and reaction to those charges have caused the debate over…
Daily Show: Herman Cain might have his ‘black card’ pulled
On Wednesday’s episode of The Daily Show, comedian Larry Wilmore examined how race may play into a potential match-up between President Barack Obama and former pizza chain CEO Herman Cain. “Even if Herman Cain gets the nomination, it technically won’t be two black guys running because black people will decertify…
Daily Show on censoring Twain: ‘Slave was just a job description’
Last night The Daily Show weighed in on a plan to sanitize Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn. NewSouth Books recently announced that it would release a version of Twain’s classic novel that replaces 219 instances of the word “nigger” with the word “slave.” “Well, congratulations on the promotion, Jim,” Comedy Central’s…
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