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Jon Stewart stories: 84 news summaries

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 Fox News Lets 
 Jon Get Under 
 Its Skin, Again 

Stewart's "go bleep yourself" to Goldberg gets O'Reilly's attention

Nov 20, 09 8:25 AM CST
(Newser) - Fox News commentator Bernard Goldberg is just so sad that Jon Stewart doesn’t like him anymore, and he made a point of saying so on last night’s O’Reilly Factor . Stewart slammed Goldberg the night before on the Daily Show for Goldberg's comment that liberals don’t “... More »

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entertainment • Bill O'Reilly • celebrity • Fox News • Jon Stewart • Sarah Palin • Bernie Goldberg • Bernard Goldberg

PILING ON

 Fox Caught Fudging 
 Footage Again 

This-just-in Palin video actually from '08 campaign

Nov 18, 09 7:39 PM CST
(Newser) - The incident isn’t on par with Jon Stewart catching Fox News host Sean Hannity passing off old video as new, but lefty blogger Faiz Shakir found the network doing something similar today. Noting huge crowds for Sarah Palin’s book tour, host Gregg Jarrett alerts viewers to “pictures... More »

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Fox News • Jon Stewart • Sean Hannity • Sarah Palin • Huffington Post • liberal media • conservative media • Fox News misleading footage • Gregg Jarrett • Sarah Palin book tour

 Biden Yuks It Up With Stewart 

Jon quizzes Joe on the state of the economy and more

Nov 18, 09 8:30 AM CST
(Newser) - Joe Biden discussed his transition to vice president, the economy, and Amtrak with Jon Stewart on The Daily Show last night. “The Republican Party has nothing but hardcore conservatives. There’s no moderates left. The Democratic Party has moderates, liberals, and conservative Democrats,” Biden said. “And Communists,... More »

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entertainment • Joe Biden • vice president • Jon Stewart • The Daily Show • Joe Biden Daily Show

COLLATERAL DAMAGE

En Route to Daily Show,
a Not-So-Funny Incident

3 injured in Biden motorcade wreck

Nov 17, 09 8:00 PM CST
(Newser) - Three people were injured tonight when New York police clearing the way for Vice President Joe Biden’s appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart collided with a livery cab trying to skirt the stopped traffic. “They T-boned him,” a witness told the Post of the incident,... More »

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entertainment • Joe Biden • New York City • Jon Stewart • The Daily Show • neck injury • motorcade • traffic accident • head injury • livery cab

FLIP-FLOPPERS

 Stewart Pits 
 '06 Giuliani 
 Vs. '09 Giuliani 

Rudy just can't decide how he feels about terrorist trials

Nov 17, 09 4:44 AM CST
(Newser) - During last night’s Daily Show analysis of Khaled Sheikh Mohammed’s upcoming trial, Jon Stewart pointed out Rudy Giuliani’s blatant flip-flopping on the issue between 2006 and now. Though 2006 Giuliani believed that “America is dedicated to the rule of law” and “We are a... More »

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entertainment • Rudy Giuliani • New York • celebrity • Khalid Sheikh Mohammed • terrorist • Jon Stewart • The Daily Show • Rudy Giuliani Daily Show

stewart to hannity

 Apology Nice, but Show Torture 

'It wasn't worth it,' he says, after enduring whole episode

Nov 13, 09 7:32 AM CST
(Newser) - Jon Stewart was really, really hoping that Sean Hannity’s apology to him would come at the beginning of his show, but no such luck. The Daily Show host had to sit through an entire episode—a torturous experience that he just so happened to videotape and feature on... More »

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entertainment • celebrity • Jon Stewart • The Daily Show • Sean Hannity

WATCH IT

Hannity to Daily Show:
Yep, We Screwed Up 

Fox host calls protest footage mixup 'inadvertent'

Nov 11, 09 9:18 PM CST
(Newser) - Fox News host Sean Hannity admitted tonight that his staff spliced video from a Capitol Hill protest last week with footage from an earlier, much larger protest over the summer—and apologized to Comedy Central’s Daily Show and host Jon Stewart, who brought the creative editing to light. “... More »

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entertainment • Fox News • Comedy Central • Jon Stewart • The Daily Show • apology • Sean Hannity • liberal media • conservative media • creative editing

 Stewart Catches 
 Hannity Faking 
 Video Footage 

'If I didn't know better, I'd think they put two different days together'

Nov 11, 09 7:44 AM CST
(Newser) - Sean Hannity should know by now that Jon Stewart will go to the tape. The Daily Show host caught Hannity using old footage—from Glenn Beck’s 9/12 rally, no less—to make Thursday’s anti-health care bill rally appear to have, as Michele Bachmann and Hannity claimed, 20,000... More »

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entertainment • celebrity • Jon Stewart • The Daily Show • Glenn Beck • Sean Hannity • health care reform • Michele Bachmann

WATCH THE VIDEO



 Prop-Wielding 
 Senators: Beware 
 Jon Stewart 

Daily Show host questions validity of comparing reform to Holocaust

Nov 10, 09 8:56 AM CST
(Newser) - Republicans who rallied against the health care bill used everything from a picture of a Nazi concentration camp to a baby to make their point, and none of it got by Jon Stewart . When Michele Bachmann used a lei brought to her by Hawaiian constituents as a prop, saying, “... More »

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entertainment • celebrity • concentration camp • Jon Stewart • The Daily Show • health care reform

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 Jon Stewart 
 Channels 
 Glenn Beck 

Appendicitis attack is obviously part of a larger conspiracy, Jon says

Nov 6, 09 12:41 PM CST
(Newser) - Jon Stewart asked the tough questions last night: Now that Glenn Beck has lost his appendix, how are we going to stop the conspiracy to harvest the rest of his organs? The Daily Show host channeled everything Beck last night, from glasses-fiddling to chalkboard to leaps of logic. “... More »

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entertainment • celebrity • Fox News • Comedy Central • Jon Stewart • The Daily Show • Glenn Beck • appendicitis

Defense Dept. Opposed Anti-Rape Rule for Contractors

But lefties ripped GOP senators for nay votes

Oct 20, 09 9:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - When 30 Republicans voted against an Al Franken amendment prohibiting defense contractors from forcing their employees to agree not to sue if they’re raped, Jon Stewart and liberals everywhere went ballistic. But those 30 Republicans weren’t alone, the Huffington Post reports; the Defense Department opposed the amendment as... More »

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Senate • rape • Department of Defense • Jon Stewart • The Daily Show • contract law • Al Franken • Jamie Leigh Jones • KBR • Defense Dept • John Thune • Obama administration • defense contractors

 Stewart: So Much for 60 Votes 

Daily Show rips Democrats for public option failure.

Oct 1, 09 10:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - When Democrats took over Congress in 2006, they did… well, basically nothing. But all that was supposed to change when they got their unstoppable 60-vote "super majority," right? Jon Stewart sure thought so. “They’d be like a bear with chainsaws instead of paws!” he cried.... More »

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entertainment • television • Comedy Central • Senate Finance Committee • Jon Stewart • The Daily Show • health care reform • public option

glossies

 Real 
 Colbert: 
 'I Embody 
 the Bullshit' 

Earnest Colbert calls himself unambitious, religious

Sep 3, 09 8:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - It wasn't Stephen Colbert's on-screen persona who turned up for a recent Rolling Stone interview, but the real Stephen Colbert—a man as "preppy, earnest, and gentle" as Ned Flanders. In the interview, Colbert dishes on his style of deconstructing the news: "I take the sausage backwards, and... More »

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parody • comedy • Jon Stewart • talk show • Stephen Colbert • The Colbert Report

Jon Stewart Takes On Death Panel Lady

'I don't know how your brain works,' he tells McCaughey

Aug 21, 09 10:09 AM CDT
(Newser) - Jon Stewart devoted most of his show yesterday to sparring with Betsy McCaughey, whose articles helped start the “death panel” rumor—and kill the Clinton health care plan in 1994. McCaughey strode onstage carrying a massive binder containing the first half of the House bill. “This bill is... More »

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rationing • Jon Stewart • The Daily Show • health care reform • death panel • Betsy McCaughey

 O'Reilly: 
 Stewart's 
 Off the Rails 

'Secretly liberal' Fox News strikes back

Aug 21, 09 4:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - Bill O'Reilly hit back at Jon Stewart last night, saying the Daily Show host had gone "off the rails" with recent jokes about Fox News. Stewart Wednesday night sarcastically called Fox "secretly liberal," because commentators like O'Reilly are now doing all the things they attacked liberals for... More »

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Bill O'Reilly • Fox News • Jon Stewart • The Daily Show • liberals

 Surprise! 
 Fox News 
 Is Liberal: 
 Stewart 



They are, after all, doing all the same things they used to complain about

Aug 20, 09 9:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - Jon Stewart made a discovery on last night's Daily Show: Fox News has turned into a big, fat liberal! As proof, Stewart showed a series of clips, including one of Bill O'Reilly praising conservative town hall protesters ("We don't describe the protesters as 'loons,'" he says) contrasted... More »

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entertainment • media • Fox News • Jon Stewart • The Daily Show • liberals • liberal

(Newser) - Now that notable unemployed person Sarah Palin has revealed Barack Obama’s plans for bureaucrat-run “death panels,” Americans are full of questions. Will the death panels cover everyone? What will our premiums be? Should they be public, or should we try a free-market death panel exchange? Well, Jon... More »

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euthanasia • Jon Stewart • The Daily Show • Sarah Palin • deathers

 How Stewart 
 Wins Over 
 Neocons 

Lefty comedian ready to listen to the other side

Aug 10, 09 9:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - Jon Stewart’s liberal inclinations don't stop him from booking voices from the far right on the Daily Show—and they give glowing reviews of their experiences, New York magazine reports. A former GOP spokesman was leery of appearing on the program to discuss torture; pundit Bill Kristol encouraged him.... More »

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entertainment • John Bolton • Comedy Central • neocon • Jon Stewart • The Daily Show • pundits • William Kristol • conservative media • Cliff May

 Beck Wins It All 
 in Stewart's 
 Jackass Derby 



Beck crowned king in new segment

Jul 30, 09 9:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - “Apparently, any jackass in a suit willing to go on television and criticize the president can make a pretty hefty living,” Jon Stewart said last night on The Daily Show. To crown the biggest jackass of all, Stewart trotted out a new segment: "So You Think... More »

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entertainment • comedy • celebrity • Fox News • CNN • Jon Stewart • The Daily Show • Glenn Beck • Sean Hannity • Lou Dobbs • Fox network • birther

OPINION

Jon Leibowitz, Stop Hiding
Your Real Name

Daily Show host
Stewart a proud Jew ... just not proud enough

Jul 24, 09 12:44 PM CDT
(Newser) - Michael Jackson’s transformation from black to white makes Ron Rosenbaum of Slate think of Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz—the guy you may know as Jon Stewart. Just as Jackson was probably responding to racism that’s now much less prevalent, the Daily Show host’s stage name “is... More »

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entertainment • Jon Stewart • The Daily Show • Jewish • anti-Semitism • Kirk Douglas

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