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"BP gave up on getting the oil out of the water a LONG time ago. Now the challenge is to get the water and dead shrimp and stuff out of the oil," Wyatt Cenac."BP gave up on getting the oil out of the water a LONG time ago. Now the... more
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Jon Stewart's war of words with journalist Bernie Goldberg reached new heights Tuesday night, as the "Daily Show" host took aim at the Fox News contributor — and the entire Fox network — in an 11-minute take-down, complete with gospel choir.
So how did Goldberg like Stewart's performance?
"I thought what he did last night was very funny," Goldberg told Yahoo! News. "I had no problem with it at all."
He added: "I obviously got to him, because he devoted about half of his show to me."
Stewart has been a longtime critic of Fox News. The latest battle started last week when he ran a clip of Bill O'Reilly and Goldberg saying the media overgeneralizes in its coverage of the Tea Party movement and conservatives. Stewart then ran a clip reel of Fox News hosts and contributors making sweeping generalizations about liberals.
Goldberg owned up to caricaturing the motives of liberals on "The O'Reilly Factor" Monday night, but then sounded off on Stewart, calling the host "a safe Jay Leno with a much smaller audience," along with other jabs. The result: Stewart fired back in epic fashion on Tuesday night's "Daily Show."
Although Goldberg said he enjoyed the segment, he still has some issues with Stewart — saying that he is "not courageous" and not "edgy" and is "a bit of a hypocrite."
"My point is that it's OK to be safe," Goldberg said. "My point was that if you're going to pretend you're a comedian / social critic, you have to have more guts."
Goldberg continued: "He needs to look at some tapes of Chris Rock, who is a genuine comedian / social critic. Chris Rock does scathingly funny bits about his loyal base, black people. He talks about dysfunction in some parts of black America. While Chris Rock is doing that, Jon Stewart is French-kissing Frank Rich," the liberal columnist for the New York Times.
Goldberg, who called the "Daily Show" audience "unsophisticated," said that he had received lots of "vulgar, vile, hateful" comments from Stewart fans on his site, where he writes a regular column, since Tuesday night's show.
He also had more advice for the "Daily Show" host: "Man the hell up, Jon!"
Will the two bury the hatchet? Goldberg has actually been on "The Daily Show" a couple times, and when asked if he'd return, he said that he's not looking for an invitation but would consider going on if "The Daily Show" reached out.
"I think we could have an interesting conversation," he said. "I really do."Jon Stewart's war of words with journalist Bernie Goldberg reached new heights... more
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The New York Times is reporting that Viacom is going to pull "The Daily Show," "The Colbert Report," and other Comedy Central properties off of Hulu next week. The reason, as always: money. The bigger question: who's next?
Apparently Viacom realized the importance of "The Daily Show" to Hulu—it's consistently one of the site's most popular programs and is clearly in sync with the Hulu demographc—and wanted outsized compensation, possibly including upfront paymentThe New York Times is reporting that Viacom is going to pull "The Daily... more
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From Jane Hamsher and Ezra Klein to Kos and Krugman, Tunku Varadarajan counts down the most influential left-wing journalists in the country.
Given that almost four times as many American journalists identify themselves as “liberal” than as “conservative” (thanks, Pew, for that little detail), our exercise in tagging the 25 most influential journalists who sit somewhere to the left of center on the political aisle was considerably more complex than the one last week in which we identified the top 25 on the right. Classifying our journalists as being “on the left” protects us from being derailed by pesky questions of taxonomy—whether someone is “liberal,” “progressive” or “radical”—although everyone on this list could be said, plausibly, to belong to one of those categories. What unites them all, broadly, is their belief (expressed or implied) that “their side” is currently in power in Washington. The list below distills responses canvassed from about 75 academics, politicians, journalists, and denizens of corporate America. (It may interest readers to know that I edited a similar list, days after Barack Obama’s inauguration as president, for Forbes. Whereas the two lists have a good deal in common, there are significant differences, most of which reflect the fact that the left no longer sees itself as being “in opposition.”) Our definition of “journalist” is a loose one, and may not please some J-school pedants: We include anyone whose primary vocation is to supply, edit, host, or curate information, news reporting, criticism, or opinion. To keep matters from getting messy, we have excluded any writer or editor whose primary affiliation is with The Daily Beast, though a couple of contributors appear.
Here, in ascending order, is The Daily Beast’s list of America’s 25 most consequential left-of-center journalists.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-02-17/the-lefts-top-25-journalists/?cid=hp:excFrom Jane Hamsher and Ezra Klein to Kos and Krugman, Tunku Varadarajan counts down the... more
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Kevin Smith continues to insist he is NOT too fat to fly Southwest Air. The airline removed him from a flight Saturday after deeming him a safety risk, even though he says he was seated with the armrests down and seat belt buckled.
Smith says the airline made a mistake in trying to board him as a standby passenger then giving him the boot.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/16/kevin-smith-challenges-so_n_463886.htmlKevin Smith continues to insist he is NOT too fat to fly Southwest Air. The airline... more
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Now that it's snowing in the east coast in winter, we're screwed. Global warming has once and for all been proven to be a hoax. Just ask Jon Stewart. (BTW, It's almost insulting that Al Gore continues to be given all of the credit for raising global awareness about climate change. I'm ready for Colbert to start giving the youth of Copenhagen some credit for rising awareness about climate change.)
Can I take a moment to say, "Damn it Al, if only you'd used the term "climate change" instead of "global warming." We might not be in this ridiculous situation right now."
What difference does this make? Well, let's remember what this argument is really about. Now that it's snowing in winter, CO2 pollution deniers have been given a new reason to say that Gore was wrong. He must be, because the earth is not boiling!
Before I move on, I just want to say, "Thank you Jon Stewart for bringing the funny. My coworkers just mocked me for the amount of laughs I got out of watching this piece." If you haven't seen it yet, give it a look:
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c
Unusually Large Snowstorm
www.thedailyshow.com
And let's not forget the people in Fairbanks, Alaska, who are angry at Al because they can't put in pools.
But it would appear that everyone appears slightly moronic when they take the time to openly mock people. This insult to graphic design was sent as an attachment in a joke email between two scientists about climate skeptics, and was leaked during the climate gate scandal. (You can go to the original post on The Guardian to find out who is being referenced and why).
I digress. The point here is that words are powerful. Global Warming was the term that the environmental movement agreed on to explain the process of CO2 pollution. Remember the image of the blanket?
"Carbon dioxide and other air pollution that is collecting in the atmosphere like a thickening blanket, trapping the sun's heat and causing the planet to warm up."
It was a term created so people could develop a quick understandable image about what was happening to the planet. But the truth of the matter is that we are in a pattern of radically shifting climate change combined with pollution and impact on the planet created by one species.
So if we can get the thinking away from "global warming" and weather, we might be able to focus on clean air and clean water and that minor issue that we are in the midst of the 6th mass extinction. We are seeing repeated examples of this issue as we note the changing migration patterns of birds, as well as the migration pattern of marine mammals. And yes, the glaciers are melting. Oh, but then there is that minor issue that global warming patterns could very well take us to the next ice age.
So where does that leave us? I don't know. Given the amount of energy spent on finger pointing it feels like kindergarten? I keep asking myself, in those last moments of life, what will we have to say to ourselves? Will it be, "I sure did spend a lot of time pointing fingers and telling them how they were wrong." Or will it be, "I did everything in my power to take care of my planet?"
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Last night, in a segment titled "The Blogs Must Be Crazy," Jon recapped the ongoing war between reality and the headlines used throughout the blogosphere to recap said reality. It's a brutal indictment of headline sensationalism, and most importantly, his jests are not without their truths. Watch as Jon not only singlehandedly destroys Fox News, but also on the bout card: Maddow eviscerates everyone in her path.
Immediacy on the Internet is definitely a factor here. Anything and everything is but a click away online, and that makes grabbing (and holding) the attention of your readership a crucial endgame when it comes to the online news game. Headline optimization is but one of the tricks employed -- the catchier the title, the better chance for clickthrough.
This is something we discuss often here at Current. It's important to have a unique and original take on the things everyone is discussing, but it's also important to have eye-catching titles. But, how far is too far? Let's compare some hyperbolic headlines with their "dose of reality" counterparts. Which ones would you click on?
First up is Hot Air's coverage of McCain's statements regarding Obama's promises of earmark reform:
Next up is BoingBoing's post about Maddow's interview with Richard Cohen:
Lastly, here's the headline that kicked it all off, The Huffington Post on Stewarts reaction to Fox News' coverage of Scott Brown's win:
OK, maybe there's no way to avoid sensationalism with that last one, but be honest: Which headline would you click on?
What do you think? Has the rampant "grab-for-clicks" culture on the Internet resulted in lower standards of reporting and over-sensationalized headlines? When reading the morning headlines, what do you do to navigate through the noise and find out what really happened?
Watch the full episode of The Daily Show on Hulu
Last night, in a segment titled "The Blogs Must Be Crazy," Jon... more
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The "Daily Show" took on John McCain's opposition to gays and lesbians in the military last night, turning the tables and mocking his age in the process.
John Oliver excused McCain for his hypocritical stance, saying, "I think he may have forgotten what he said three and a half years ago...Old people are prone to memory lapses."
Putting it bluntly, he proposed a solution that would keep inconsistencies like that from happening: "I think it's time we stop letting old people serve in the Senate."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/04/john-oliver-stop-letting_n_449053.html?fbwallThe "Daily Show" took on John McCain's opposition to gays and lesbians... more
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Tackling Bill O'Reilly on his home turf is never easy, yet Jon Stewart more than held his own last night.
In a vigorous, policy-laden debate, 'The Daily Show' host blasts Fox's 'panic attack' coverage of Obama and the economy. O'Reilly says 'the narrative of a couple of guys' doesn't represent the whole network.
But most of all, Stewart used his second appearance ever on "The O'Reilly Factor" to levy a robust critique of Fox News and its coverage of President Obama.
"Here's what Fox has done, through their cyclonic perpetual emotional machine that is 24 hours a day, 7 days a week: They have taken reasonable concerns about this president and this economy and turned it into full-fledged panic attack about the next coming of Chairman Mao," the comedian told his host.
"I think some people do that, but most people don't," O'Reilly responded, calling it "the narrative of a couple of guys."Tackling Bill O'Reilly on his home turf is never easy, yet Jon Stewart more than... more
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Jon Stewart's interview with Bush's former Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Yoo, about his book "Crisis and Command" was an uncomfortable one. It was a fascinating fencing match between the two: Stewart seemed uncharacteristically stymied, while Yoo retreated into legal hairsplitting. Stewart's argument was that Bush had been asking his Attorney General's staff for a new definition of torture, one that gave the government broader powers in recruiting methods for questioning suspected terrorists. Yoo countered that he was simply interpreting treaties and the Constitution to show the legal extent to which the American government could go in pressing suspected terrorists for answers. The interview that aired last night was edited down, but the entire piece is now available online.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/12/jon-stewart-questions-joh_n_419754.htmlJon Stewart's interview with Bush's former Deputy Assistant Attorney General... more
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Many journalists have come to think of the comedian (above) as a kind of external standards-and-practices cop — and one whose nightstick leaves painfully embarrassing welts, says NBC anchor Brian Williams. He explains why no journalist wants to show up on The Daily Show unless he's got a book to promote.
For decades, young reporters would ask themselves, "What would Walter think?" Nowadays, it's not the memory of Walter Cronkite or even Edward R. Murrow that motivates some reporters — it's more often the fear that the stories they put out today might get picked apart by Jon Stewart tomorrow.
Prominent among the wary: NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams, who recently explained in a magazine essay that The Daily Show host "has gone from optional to indispensable" in just a few short years.
And Williams tells NPR's Guy Raz that on occasion, when he feels his broadcast tap-dancing toward the precipice — tossing around a story idea for "what I call Margaret Mead journalism — where we 'discover Twitter,' " for instance, or entertaining some other unfortunate editorial possibility — "I will, and have, said that, 'You know, maybe we can just give a heads-up to Jon to set aside some time for that tonight.'
"I should quickly add, we have another set of standards we put our stories through," Williams cautions. "But Jon's always in the back of my mind. ... When you make The Daily Show, it's usually not for a laurel, it's for a dart."
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=2Many journalists have come to think of the comedian (above) as a kind of external... more
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Does Fox News have anymore walls in their glass house? All those stones tossed over the past year and they are still at it....
Jon Stewart ripped into Fox News for posting a graphic in response to the hacked emails of climate change scientists about their use of statistics in support of global warming. Stewart seized on the idea that Fox News and Friends co-host Gretchen Carlson might not be as stupid as she seems on the air.
The graphic, reporting misleadingly the figures about public opinion from a Rasmussen poll, showed responses to the question:
"Did scientists falsify research to support their own theories on Global Warming?"
The question results posted were:
59% Somewhat Likely
35% Very Likely
26% Not Very Likely
Here is the video:......
http://www.politicususa.com/en/Jon-Stewart-CarlsonDoes Fox News have anymore walls in their glass house? All those stones tossed over... more
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The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - 11/10/09;
Following a story brought to light by an article in Politico, Jon Stewart discussed Glenn Beck's fiasco of an hour long segment of fear-rampaging-paranoia, sprinkled with suggestions to invest in Gold, all the while being a spokesman for Gold Line.The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - 11/10/09;
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"Poor Al Gore. Global warming completely debunked via the very Internet you invented. OH. OH the irony""Poor Al Gore. Global warming completely debunked via the very Internet you... more
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In an interview with Jon Stewart on Comedy Central's The Daily Show Tuesday evening, Vice President Joe Biden acknowledged the anger and frustration many taxpayers feel over the way financial institutions seem to have favored status in Washington D.C.
Pointing to the hundreds of billions of government dollars that have been spent to keep banks from failing, he recalled a "great expression" of his grandfather, Ambrose Finnegan: "It's socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor," Biden said.
But he defended his administration's decisions to rescue Wall Street institutions from the brink of failure. "Because if we did not bail them out, we would have been in a position where there was a literal depression, not a recession."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/18/biden-on-the-bailout-soci_n_361900.htmlIn an interview with Jon Stewart on Comedy Central's The Daily Show Tuesday... more
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Earlier this week, Jon Stewart did a segment on Sean Hannity's health care protest coverage in which he revealed that the Fox host had used footage of a different, larger event to make gathering look more impressive. The "Daily Show" went on to mock Fox by adding more video to Hannity's story, this time from Woodstock and the movie "300."
The next night, Hannity apologized saying Stewart was right. Stewart watched the show in anticipation of this moment, but after tons of tears and teddy-bear hangings, he revealed that "nothing's worth sitting through this."
Stewart went on to praise Ramin Hedayati, the young producer who caught the Hannity flub. (Full disclosure I know Mr. Hedayati personally.) "He" came came out on stage to take a bow and despite having graduated college in 2002, Ramin looks surprisingly old and begged Stewart to kill him so he could stop watching Sean Hannity's show.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/13/stewart-responds-to-hanni_n_356702.htmlEarlier this week, Jon Stewart did a segment on Sean Hannity's health care... more
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Here's an excellent observation from Mediaite's Rachel Sklar, who reminds us that while the "big news to come out of Meet The Press this week has been author Jon Krakauer's assertion that General Stanley McChrystal, commander of the U.S. forces in Afghanistan, was implicated in the cover-up about the death of Pat Tillman," that big news had already been more or less broken by Jon Stewart and The Daily Show:
Krakauer was on [The Daily Show] over a month ago. It's surprising that this one flew under the radar, given how many sharp-eyed journalists, bloggers and media-watchers tune into the Daily Show, and regularly report on the news it makes. But it can and does happen, and happened here. What this says about Krakauer, McChrystal and his book is no different than what was picked up from Meet The Press. But what this says about so-called 'fake' news is, keep your eye on it. People with important things to say make a point of trying to say them on the Daily Show. So don't fall asleep before the interview.
All of that is absolutely right, and it's worth pointing out that Stewart conducted his interview with a greater awareness of where the "news" is in an interview with Jon Krakauer. That meant that Daily Show viewers got an interview that began with the Pat Tillman story and went on for six probing minutes. Meanwhile, at Meet The Press, Krakauer sat on the set like window dressing, and the subject of Pat Tillman wasn't broached until the show's final sequence of questions. Why have him on then?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/03/daily-show-beat-meet-the_n_343923.htmlHere's an excellent observation from Mediaite's Rachel Sklar, who reminds us... more
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The planet may very well be fighting against our fight against climate change. What is its primary weapons? TREES!The planet may very well be fighting against our fight against climate change. What is... more
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