Rob Riggle, correspondent for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, filed a report from Iraq showing just how similar Iraq is to the Indiana markets in the summertime.
The clip includes a hilarious parody of the “kinds of shrimp” scene from the 1995 Academy Award winner for Best Picture, Forest Gump.
http://www.alternet.org/mediafiles/bunny_31416_22082007.flv(Hat tip: Adam Howard, AlterNet)
John Gibson, FOX News contributor and radio host, mocked the remarks made by Jon Stewart on The Daily Show from the first broadcast following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York, Washington, D.C., and the downed jetliner in Pennsylvania.
Read Stewart’s full speech from September 20, 2001, here.
In the radio program, Gibson was asked about the state of the media following the attacks and the first name he came up with was Jon Stewart? Jon Stewart is a comedian. His program is a comedy show. FYI, John: It is not a real news show.
GIBSON: Actually, you could. If you wait a little while, you’ll say, just as Steve Martin used to say, “Should I fight the terrorists? Should I listen to their phone calls? Should I follow them everywhere on the planet to keep America safe? Nah, let’s kick the hell out of Bush.”
Do we need another 9-11? …
That’s thing: Bush isn’t keeping the country safe, but Gibson is willfully blind to that fact because his career and paycheck rests upon his not “knowing.”
Last night’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart featured a heart felt send off for top political adviser at the White House, Karl Rove, and an interesting interview with neoconservative William Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard.
Steve Benen commented at newly redesigned The Carpetbagger Report (with transcript):
Putting aside, for a moment, Kristol’s penchant for yet another war, this simple exchange was what was missing from all of the major media coverage when O’Hanlon and Pollack were all over every network. Jon Stewart — who, you know, heads a fake news show — managed to challenge a bogus assertion and convey useful information to his audience.
Now, was that so hard?
For the media in this day and age — yes, unfortunately.
Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert returned to their respective programs, The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, on Comedy Central last night.
Stewart took the Bush administration to task for their “satisfactory progress” in Iraq on eight of eighteen areas — a progress report they cherry-picked for political purposes.
In returning from summer hiatus, Colbert had Senator Bill Nelson (D-Nebraska) as the guest. Senator Nelson used a series of Republican talking points in a discussion about Iraq and Colbert called him out on it.
Bill O’Reilly attacked The Daily Show host Jon Stewart’s “influence” on the 2004 Presidential election, real or imagined, and took shots at Stewart’s audience, claiming “87 percent” were “intoxicated” while viewing his show. (The source of these statistics was never cited.)
Stewart made him pay by citing that the show is design for comedy and spoofing politics — not news. Stewart noted the lead into his show is “sock puppets making crank calls.”
Read the full transcript below.
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November 20, 2008
