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Jon Stewart to Pat Robertson: 'Shut Your Piehole'
 Jon Stewart to 
 Pat Robertson: 
 'Shut Your Piehole' 

PLUS: O'REILLY, OLBERMANN RANT
Jan 15, 2010 8:56 AM CST

Jon Stewart to Pat Robertson: 'Shut Your Piehole'

Limbaugh, Robertson, even Maddow irk Stewart—probably O'Reilly too

(Newser) - Jon Stewart is not happy with people using the earthquake in Haiti to advance their own agendas, and he had some words for Pat Robertson (and other offenders) last night: “Shut your piehole!” The only silver lining to the tragedy “is that whenever something this horrific...

Jon Stewart: I Should Have Nailed John Yoo

Stewart apologizes for a disappointing Daily Show interview

(Newser) - Jon Stewart has taken down a lot of people on The Daily Show —but Monday’s guest John Yoo wasn’t one of them, and last night he apologized for the disappointing interview. Yoo, author of the Bush torture memos—or, as Stewart put it, “the memo that...

Stewart Nails Glenn Beck for Promoting Gold

Fox host both fuels and profits from gold craze

(Newser) - Glenn Beck’s cozy relationship with the gold industry—he talks about the metal on his show and is a paid spokesman for Goldline—has so far stayed comfortably under the radar, but Jon Stewart took aim at it last night with a segment on the Daily Show. Does Beck's...

Fox News Lets Jon Get Under Its Skin, Again

Stewart's "go bleep yourself" to Goldberg gets O'Reilly's attention

(Newser) - Fox News commentator Bernard Goldberg is just so sad that Jon Stewart doesn’t like him anymore, and he made a point of saying so on last night’s O’Reilly Factor . Stewart slammed Goldberg the night before on the Daily Show for Goldberg's comment that liberals don’t “...

Fox Caught Fudging Footage Again
 Fox Caught Fudging 
 Footage Again 
PILING ON
Nov 18, 2009 7:39 PM CST

Fox Caught Fudging Footage Again

This-just-in Palin video actually from '08 campaign

(Newser) - The incident isn’t on par with Jon Stewart catching Fox News host Sean Hannity passing off old video as new, but lefty blogger Faiz Shakir found the network doing something similar today. Noting huge crowds for Sarah Palin’s book tour, host Gregg Jarrett alerts viewers to “pictures...

Biden Yuks It Up With Stewart
 Biden Yuks It Up With Stewart 
Nov 18, 2009 8:30 AM CST

Biden Yuks It Up With Stewart

Jon quizzes Joe on the state of the economy and more

(Newser) - Joe Biden discussed his transition to vice president, the economy, and Amtrak with Jon Stewart on The Daily Show last night. “The Republican Party has nothing but hardcore conservatives. There’s no moderates left. The Democratic Party has moderates, liberals, and conservative Democrats,” Biden said. “And Communists,...

En Route to Daily Show , a Not-So-Funny Incident
En Route to Daily Show,
a Not-So-Funny Incident
COLLATERAL DAMAGE
Nov 17, 2009 8:00 PM CST

En Route to Daily Show, a Not-So-Funny Incident

3 injured in Biden motorcade wreck

(Newser) - Three people were injured tonight when New York police clearing the way for Vice President Joe Biden’s appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart collided with a livery cab trying to skirt the stopped traffic. “They T-boned him,” a witness told the Post of the incident,...

Stewart Pits '06 Giuliani Vs. '09 Giuliani
 Stewart Pits 
 '06 Giuliani 
 Vs. '09 Giuliani 
FLIP-FLOPPERS
Nov 17, 2009 4:44 AM CST

Stewart Pits '06 Giuliani Vs. '09 Giuliani

Rudy just can't decide how he feels about terrorist trials

(Newser) - During last night’s Daily Show analysis of Khaled Sheikh Mohammed’s upcoming trial, Jon Stewart pointed out Rudy Giuliani’s blatant flip-flopping on the issue between 2006 and now. Though 2006 Giuliani believed that “America is dedicated to the rule of law” and “We are a free...

Apology Nice, but Show Torture
 Apology Nice, but Show Torture 
stewart to hannity
Nov 13, 2009 7:32 AM CST

Apology Nice, but Show Torture

'It wasn't worth it,' he says, after enduring whole episode

(Newser) - Jon Stewart was really, really hoping that Sean Hannity’s apology to him would come at the beginning of his show, but no such luck. The Daily Show host had to sit through an entire episode—a torturous experience that he just so happened to videotape and feature on...

Hannity to Daily Show : Yep, We Screwed Up
Hannity to Daily Show:
Yep, We Screwed Up 
WATCH IT
Nov 11, 2009 9:18 PM CST

Hannity to Daily Show: Yep, We Screwed Up

Fox host calls protest footage mixup 'inadvertent'

(Newser) - Fox News host Sean Hannity admitted tonight that his staff spliced video from a Capitol Hill protest last week with footage from an earlier, much larger protest over the summer—and apologized to Comedy Central’s Daily Show and host Jon Stewart, who brought the creative editing to light. “...

Stewart Catches Hannity Faking Video Footage

'If I didn't know better, I'd think they put two different days together'

(Newser) - Sean Hannity should know by now that Jon Stewart will go to the tape. The Daily Show host caught Hannity using old footage—from Glenn Beck’s 9/12 rally, no less—to make Thursday’s anti-health care bill rally appear to have, as Michele Bachmann and Hannity claimed, 20,000...

Prop-Wielding Senators: Beware Jon Stewart


 Prop-Wielding 
 Senators: Beware 
 Jon Stewart 
WATCH THE VIDEO
Nov 10, 2009 8:56 AM CST

Prop-Wielding Senators: Beware Jon Stewart

Daily Show host questions validity of comparing reform to Holocaust

(Newser) - Republicans who rallied against the health care bill used everything from a picture of a Nazi concentration camp to a baby to make their point, and none of it got by Jon Stewart . When Michele Bachmann used a lei brought to her by Hawaiian constituents as a prop, saying, “...

Jon Stewart Channels Glenn Beck

 Jon Stewart 
 Channels 
 Glenn Beck 
WATCH THE VIDEO
Nov 6, 2009 12:41 PM CST

Jon Stewart Channels Glenn Beck

Appendicitis attack is obviously part of a larger conspiracy, Jon says

(Newser) - Jon Stewart asked the tough questions last night: Now that Glenn Beck has lost his appendix, how are we going to stop the conspiracy to harvest the rest of his organs? The Daily Show host channeled everything Beck last night, from glasses-fiddling to chalkboard to leaps of logic. “...

Defense Dept. Opposed Anti-Rape Rule for Contractors

But lefties ripped GOP senators for nay votes

(Newser) - When 30 Republicans voted against an Al Franken amendment prohibiting defense contractors from forcing their employees to agree not to sue if they’re raped, Jon Stewart and liberals everywhere went ballistic. But those 30 Republicans weren’t alone, the Huffington Post reports; the Defense Department opposed the amendment as...

Stewart: So Much for 60 Votes
 Stewart: So Much for 60 Votes 
Oct 1, 2009 10:20 AM CDT

Stewart: So Much for 60 Votes

Daily Show rips Democrats for public option failure.

(Newser) - When Democrats took over Congress in 2006, they did… well, basically nothing. But all that was supposed to change when they got their unstoppable 60-vote "super majority," right? Jon Stewart sure thought so. “They’d be like a bear with chainsaws instead of paws!” he cried....

Real Colbert: 'I Embody the Bullshit'

Earnest Colbert calls himself unambitious, religious

(Newser) - It wasn't Stephen Colbert's on-screen persona who turned up for a recent Rolling Stone interview, but the real Stephen Colbert—a man as "preppy, earnest, and gentle" as Ned Flanders. In the interview, Colbert dishes on his style of deconstructing the news: "I take the sausage backwards, and...

Jon Stewart Takes On Death Panel Lady
Jon Stewart Takes On Death Panel Lady
Aug 21, 2009 10:09 AM CDT

Jon Stewart Takes On Death Panel Lady

'I don't know how your brain works,' he tells McCaughey

(Newser) - Jon Stewart devoted most of his show yesterday to sparring with Betsy McCaughey, whose articles helped start the “death panel” rumor—and kill the Clinton health care plan in 1994. McCaughey strode onstage carrying a massive binder containing the first half of the House bill. “This bill is...

O'Reilly: Stewart's Off the Rails

'Secretly liberal' Fox News strikes back

(Newser) - Bill O'Reilly hit back at Jon Stewart last night, saying the Daily Show host had gone "off the rails" with recent jokes about Fox News. Stewart Wednesday night sarcastically called Fox "secretly liberal," because commentators like O'Reilly are now doing all the things they attacked liberals for...

Surprise! Fox News Is Liberal: Stewart

They are, after all, doing all the same things they used to complain about

(Newser) - Jon Stewart made a discovery on last night's Daily Show: Fox News has turned into a big, fat liberal! As proof, Stewart showed a series of clips, including one of Bill O'Reilly praising conservative town hall protesters ("We don't describe the protesters as 'loons,'" he says) contrasted with...

Stewart Convenes Panel on 'Death Panels'

(Newser) - Now that notable unemployed person Sarah Palin has revealed Barack Obama’s plans for bureaucrat-run “death panels,” Americans are full of questions. Will the death panels cover everyone? What will our premiums be? Should they be public, or should we try a free-market death panel exchange? Well, Jon...

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