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Has Obama lost Jon Stewart — and his millennial base?
Alex Seitz-Wald wonders whether Barack Obama has suffered the equivalent of Lyndon Johnson’s CRONKITE MOMENT:
If President Obama has lost Jon Stewart, has he lost his base? It’s a question worth considering after “The Daily Show” host tore into the president Monday night for a series of scandals and controversies that seem to be piling up by the hour this week. In a shouty, expletive-laden segment, Stewart said the IRS scandal will be fodder to the right-wing conspiracy theories he’s been battling for years and that it single-handedly ”shifted the burden of proof from the tin foil-behatted to the government.”…
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Jon Stewart shines withering spotlight on right-wing noise machine’s hysteria over Benghazi
It speaks ill of the so-called serious news media in this country when a political satirist does a better job than all of them in putting a controversy in proper perspective.
Such was the case last night when it took Jon Stewart a mere 10 minutes to expose the vacuousness of the scandal-mongering by the Republican right over the Benghazi tragedy.
THIS PIECE includes two video clips from Stewart’s devastating treatment of the subject:
Jon Stewart tonight took on today’s big Congressional hearing on Benghazi, and specifically on how it’s become the latest way Fox News has gone all-out in …
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The Donald wants you to know that Jon Stewart is Jewish
Andrew Kirell paraphrases Donald Trump’s tweet THUSLY:
I am smarter than Jon Stewart will ever be because he is so stupid and because his real name is not even Jon Stewart. It’s something much more Jewish-y. So, ha! Also: he is overrated.
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At Fox News, it’s never the right time to discuss gun violence
Political satirist Jon Stewart did a masterful job last night skewering Fox News Channel for its blatant hypocrisy regarding the issue of gun violence in America.
There’s an eight-minute video of Stewart’s bit HERE….
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Jon Stewart mocks election-night meltdown at Fox News
Yesterday, I shared with you THIS FUNNY VIDEO.
Today, I share with you THIS HILARIOUS STUFF (which includes some vulgar language and a don’t-miss-it video at the end of the piece):
Jon Stewart recapped all the big news from last night’s election, but saved his harshest criticisms for Fox News, Karl Rove, and in particular, five fateful minutes of the network in near-pandemonium after Ohio was called for President Obama that Stewart predicted would live on forever.
Stewart joked that Obama’s victory speech appeared to show that he was given “fresh batteries” for his second term, marveling at …
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