Stewart Does Another Glenn Beck Takedown

Glenn Beck: Obama is 'clearly anti-cop'

(NEWSER) - Jon Stewart again smacked Fox News for its fury over Common’s White House appearance, pointing out last night that only huffers of “Foxygen”—“the heady mix of partisan hackery, character assassination, and manufactured outrage”—would be bothered by the rapper’s performance. From there, Stewart attacked Newt Gingrich’s attempt to “hook up with the new generation,” as CNN’s John King put it, by using Twitter and YouTube to announce his presidential candidacy. More»

If Glenn Beck's show is ending, it must be the end of the world: ' Daily Show '

(NEWSER) - Glenn Beck's Fox show will soon be no more, and Jon Stewart seized the moment last night, offering a glasses-wearing, chalkboard-scrawling send-up of Beck's program. By analyzing facts and figures—ranging from Charles Manson to the Bible—Stewart was able to determine that Beck’s departure can only mean one thing: apocalypse. Because if Beck's show ends at the end of 2011, that's almost 2012, the year the Mayans have said it's all over. And who is obsessed with 2012? Barack Obamayan, of course! More»

Daily Show host extends another invitation, likely in vain

(NEWSER) - Jon Stewart ended Tuesday’s Sarah Palin slapfest by inviting her on the Daily Show—and last night , he extended another invitation to Glenn Beck. Beck told Today Show host Meredith Vieira yesterday that even in light of the Tucson shootings, he doesn’t regret any violent statements he meant as jokes, and added as justification, “Ask Jon Stewart. Ask The Simpsons.” Responded Stewart, “Glenn, here’s the thing, my man: You don’t have to tell Meredith Vieira to ask me. Ask me yourself!” More»

Conservatives are not above fear-mongering, he says

(NEWSER) - Karl Rove and Fox News are outraged— outraged! —that the Democrats are running ads suggesting that GOP-backed groups take "secret foreign money." "Have these people no shame?" Rove asks. Right, jokes Jon Stewart on the Daily Show , because conservatives would never spread rumors about shadowy foreign funds ... oh wait, yes they would. Remember the ground zero mosque debacle? Watch and laugh. (And click here for more from the Daily Show.) More»

'New York' takes a good long look at 'Daily Show' host

(NEWSER) - Chris Smith offers up an in-depth look at how Jon Stewart and his staff create The Daily Show, and traces the show's evolution since Stewart took over. Highlights from the New York piece:

• Stewart on a possible Stewart-Colbert parody of Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally: “Maybe we would do a ‘March of the Reasonable,’ on a date of no particular significance."
• Stewart on Fox News: "It's one reason I admire Fox. They’re great broadcasters. Everything is pointed, purposeful. You follow story lines, you fall in love with characters," he says, adding later, "You have to imagine someone is going to come along in a nonpartisan fashion and create a similarly tenacious organization as Fox."