Yesterday, in this piece about Stephen Colbert,I mentioned Jon Stewart’s attack on Fox News but couched it with as much skepticism as possible because, frankly, it didn’t pass the smell test, especially in the area of context. To have those
UPDATE: Welcome to all the readers sent here by our left-wing friends over at Mediaite. There’s a terrific debate going on in this earlier post defending Democratic Congressman Cohen’s right to call us Republicans Nazis without a bunch of media
This isn’t going to surprise anyone, but I’ve taken IQ tests and the results weren’t all that impressive. And yet, I still don’t need Jon Stewart to tell me that Republicans aren’t Nazis. I still don’t need Media Speech Enforcers
I never realized Kennedy was so dangerous to the establishment. Why it’s a left-wing film Where to begin. With this particular film, discussing “why” it was made is more important and revealing than digging into the specific politics of it
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In George Orwell’s novel “1984,” on a daily basis everything stops for the Two Minutes of Hate, during which those in political control flash distorted images of their political enemies on a television screen so the populace can rage against
Andrew Potter at Mediaite took a serious swipe at Jon Stewart this week, dragging “The Daily Show” host over the proverbial coals for not doing his job in the wake of the Tucson massacre: [Stewart] …instead of taking sides, placing
Anyone who’s read this site for any period of time knows I’m no Jon Stewart fan. On his best days, I find him smug and disingenuous. “But he attacks the Left!”, my friends tell me. Yeah, when they’re not liberal
After Roger Ebert, Jane Fonda, Michael Moore, Elizabeth Banks, and a host of other celeb vultures descended on the murdered and wounded in Arizona for a partisan political feast, if what we’re seeing from The View, Jon Stewart, and Stephen
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The unlimited checkbook. That’s how Big Tobacco wins every time on everything, they spend you to death. Six hundred million a year in outside legal – Chadbourne-Park, uh, Ken Starr’s firm, Kirkland & Ellis? Listen: GM and Ford, they get
So, the focus of this special episode of Red Eye is alcohol. Or, to be more precise: the Red Eye stories that made us drink the most. And my pick is the media’s pathetic response to the public’s growing dissatisfaction
The New York Times: Did the bill pledging federal funds for the health care of 9/11 responders become law in the waning hours of the 111th Congress only because a comedian took it up as a personal cause? And does
Ah, people were always lousy… But there was a world, once. Why it’s a left-wing film The opening montage says it all. Various photographs reveal when the world’s downfall began, with the early days of American industrialization, and then take
It’s been obvious for a long while that Democrats have little appreciation of the power of incentives and disincentives when it comes to setting marginal tax rates. Democrats refuse to acknowledge, for example, that raising marginal tax rates sends powerful
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If you hadn’t had the opportunity yet, I urge you to head on over to Big Government to check out the Pigford series unfurling today. I would start with Andrew Breitbart’s anchor piece, jump into this superb piece of investigative
—– Watch Dana Loesch school smug comedian John Fugelsgang on economics, Sarah Palin and calling her “sugar.” The sugar part, the best part, comes at right around the 4:40 mark. This Fugelsgang somehow manages to be even smugger than Jon
First it was the clinger who shot his television after Bristol Palin made it to the finals on “Dancing with the Stars.” Now we learn that white powder was sent to Palin at DWTS studios this past week. An FBI
Any public figure who is as easy to make fun of as Glenn Beck deserves to be made fun of regardless of their politics. Life is too short, and it has always been a healthy sign for conservatives that we
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Jason Jones’ Bayonne www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Rally to Restore Sanity Asking the media to leave the Palin kids alone is like asking Michael Moore
Economic advisor Lawrence Summers did a “heck of a job,” according to President Barack Obama. Obama praised the Director of the National Economic Council a few weeks ago on Jon Stewart’s “Daily Show.” The President was ridiculed for echoing the
—– The timing couldn’t be more perfect because tomorrow Big Hollywood will run Edward Azlant’s Sucker Punch Squad review of Kevin Spacey’s “Casino Jack,” which hits theatres December 12th. Two-time Oscar winner Kevin Spacey stars as disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff
The other night Rachel Maddow interviewed John Stewart. It’s about 7 minutes long, but interesting if you care about this sort of thing: Jon Stewart claims not to be “on the field” but in the stands. Maddow contends that what
The takeaway from the three clips below is that when you have to explain yourself, you’re losing — and Stewart is desperately having to explain himself. Rachel Maddow obviously likes and admires Stewart but doesn’t buy his above-it-allery for a
