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Jon Stewart Mocks Fox‘s Gretchen Carlson and Her ’War on Christmas’
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Last night, Jon Stewart took on Fox News’s Gretchen Carlson and her recent story about the city of Tulsa, Okla. renaming its Christmas parade the “holiday” parade. He dubbed her “the Gretch who saved the war on Christmas”:
For some background on the Tulsa “Holiday” Parade see our original report.
(H/T: Gawker)
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Comments (179)
NHABE64
Posted on December 7, 2010 at 8:58amJon Stewart is an ******* plain and simple I am beginning to wonder if the audience applause was not coming out of a pre-recorded sound box because I find it hard to believe would actually find such dribble funny. That is unless the audience was hand selected socialists like this bonehead comedian. Sick, sick, sick.
Report Post »rbcintexas
Posted on December 7, 2010 at 8:52amJon Stewart is a left wing a$$ and should be yanked of the air. He represents the worst of the United States.
Report Post »hempstead1944
Posted on December 7, 2010 at 8:44amBet he picked on girls growing up too……
Report Post »moriarty70
Posted on December 7, 2010 at 8:54amYeah, how dare he, because girls aren’t equal, and are weaker and need to be protected and not treated the same as men.
Report Post »Okieflyover
Posted on December 7, 2010 at 8:43amThese guys on the Comedy Channel have zero growth model. They try to portray sarcasm as some kind of intellect.
Stewart, Colbert and Behar have all proven that you don’t have to be SMART to be a SMART A$$.
Report Post »postscript
Posted on December 7, 2010 at 8:41amRemember, Jon is a puppet on a comedy show with VERY low audience numbers. He reached more people here than he ever could on his show.
Report Post »Bull Dog
Posted on December 7, 2010 at 6:19pmActually The Daily Show ratings beat Glenn Becks quite a bit of the time lately. But I’m sure you already knew that fact by checking the ratings. Jon’s averaging about 2.2 million while Glenn has dropped to right around 2.05 million this fall. But hey, never let the facts get in the way of you dissing someone!
Report Post »postscript
Posted on December 7, 2010 at 8:50pmBULL DOG…Nice try… let’s compare November ratings… this was posted on November 24th… Jon Stewart’s “The Daily Show” bounced back a bit following an off week to average 1.5 million eyeballs… and this was also posted the third week in November… Glenn Beck ratings… 2.299 million. The problem starts when you idiots check the The COMEDY CHANNEL for your news… Jon is a puppet on the COMEDY CHANNEL and you are a puppet that watches him…
Report Post »ToddinVB
Posted on December 7, 2010 at 8:30amWe’re not celebrating a Holiday, or days off from work, yeah! No, it’s Christmas. The time we chose to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. That‘s why we’re offended by the dumbing down of our religious events, like Christmas… because of what they mean to us.
Merry Christmas everyone!
Report Post »1Christian1
Posted on December 7, 2010 at 8:29amThe bearded one that Gretchen was defending WAS Jesus not Santa. A HOLIDAY parade is about Santa. A CHRISTMAS parade is about CHRIST. Santa and other cute characters may be included in the parade for the fun of it. The point is that what is being celebrated is Christ’s Birth. Taking the word Christmas out of the parade’s name just makes it a secular event with no real meaning.
Report Post »google may 21
Posted on December 7, 2010 at 1:48pmexactly, they want to do away with Christmas and the celebration of the birth of the Son on GOD.
Report Post »moriarty70
Posted on December 7, 2010 at 8:27amThat’s right, the true spirit of the season. When someone wishes you “Happy Holidays” it’s not a wish of good will, it’s an active attempt to secularize, progressivize, atheize the season. The only reasonable, sane response is to be outraged and even boycott stores that don’t wish “Merry Christmas”, because if you don’t they will bar the doors of your church for Midnight Mass.
It’s not about spending time with your family and celebrating how you choose, it’s about… I don’t know… stopping people from broading it and bringing more people into the celebration?
dawgPound
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 1:47amNoooo, that’s not what it means when you say “happy Hollidays” What “Happy Hollidays” means is ” I don’t know WHAT religion, if any, that you belong to so i am not gonna assume that you are a christian because you could be muslim, or jewish, or hindu, or a buddhist” That’s what it means.
Report Post »The Grinch
Posted on December 7, 2010 at 8:27amAs long as idiots keep supporting the Jon Stewart’s in the world, the Jon Stewart’s will continue to act like idiots! If no one watched his show he would curl up like a slug and die. Or should I just say “Forgive them Father for they know not what they do”.
Report Post »smasaoka
Posted on December 7, 2010 at 8:24amGod will have the last laugh on John Steward; will he be laughing then? Will those in the audience also be laughing? Ever notice how Santa has taken over Christmas, but change the letters around in “Santa” and one gets Satan?
Report Post »May I be there when John and all the others mocking Christmas and Christ get their “just rewards”!
Gonzo
Posted on December 7, 2010 at 10:15amSanta is Satan? :-O You ruined Christmas! :-(
Report Post »1Christian1
Posted on December 7, 2010 at 8:23amAdd your comments
Report Post »Cash4157
Posted on December 7, 2010 at 8:23amWhen you look up the definition of “Horse’s Ass” in Websters. You will surely find Stewart’s picture.
Report Post »tranquilrider
Posted on December 7, 2010 at 12:10pmMy 8 year old son said the exact same thing about the kid he was playing with at recess
Report Post »Rn mom
Posted on December 7, 2010 at 4:45pmYour son plays with Jon Stewart at recess?
Report Post »Rn mom
Posted on December 7, 2010 at 8:19amJon, just as edgy as ever! I am surprised they haven’t awarded you with a real news show- wannbe! What do you expect from a man who changed his own last name because Leibowitz was too ethnic? His family must be so proud of him, that big stand up guy he is (he does stand up- it doesn’t mean he is stand up).
Report Post »GeauxAlready
Posted on December 7, 2010 at 8:16amWhat is the matter with America? STAND UP GROW A PAIR
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on December 7, 2010 at 8:15amSo, a Jew doesn’t see a problem with secularizing the birth of Christ, I’m shocked!
Report Post »psst
Posted on December 7, 2010 at 11:27amUm, Ol John will soon have to hide somewhere at the rate things are happening.Though, he better not hide behind a Tree.
Report Post »How’s that passage thingy goes in the Quoran.
Um, I think something like this. There’s a Jew hiding behind that tree, go bring him to me so I can kill him. Or something to that effect.
Merry CHRIST-mas John..
tranquilrider
Posted on December 7, 2010 at 12:08pmCongrats, the most racist, dumbest post today!!!! There was lot’s of competition.
Report Post »Blight14
Posted on December 7, 2010 at 2:47pm100% correct Gonzo, glad someone put 2+2…….lets see Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz make some wise a&& comments about I$lam……..
Report Post »Country
Posted on December 7, 2010 at 8:14amAre we obligated to buy holiday gifts?
Report Post »Deda1
Posted on December 7, 2010 at 8:14amLook, Christmas is a holiday based on Christian beliefs and the birth of Jesus Christ. If they other religions want to have displays on the court house lawns, parades for their holidays and be designated a national holiday, well then go get your own and pick a date besides sometime in Dec and we will go along with it. That goes for Kwanza, Ramadam and any other religion.
Report Post »HumanDoing
Posted on December 7, 2010 at 8:13amYeah this is craziness…. one isolated town in the corner of America wanting to change the name to Holiday(sarcasm). It isn’t like this is some epidemic of anti Christmas jeez. The length of time John spent on this though was a little ridiculously long. Running out of material?
Report Post »Lloyd Drako
Posted on December 7, 2010 at 8:42amTulsa an isolated town in the corner of America?
Last I checked, it was a fairly large city in the very heartland of America.
Report Post »KICKILLEGALSOUT
Posted on December 7, 2010 at 8:11amSo cities have change the Christmas parade to the Holiday parade because these blind fools are afraid of “offending” someone, yet schools are now starting to endorse Muslim religious holidays in some cities. These people don’t care about equality, they are only Anti Christian because you never hear them say a word about any other issue.
Report Post »DagneyT
Posted on December 7, 2010 at 8:18amJesus warned us this would happen. As long as Satan is in charge of the world, Christians will be persecuted.
Marcobob69
Posted on December 7, 2010 at 8:28amI watched network(ugh!) tv for the first time in ages the other night, and at every commercial break there were at least two Christmas themed ads, but in not one, NOT ONE, commercial did I hear the word Christmas mentioned. What the blue hell is this country coming to???!!! It’s sad and disgusting how these morons have taken the Holiest of holidays and turned it into “just another Holiday”! But yet it’s okay to sing praises of Allah without anyone “batting an eyelash”! WTF!!!!! Bet they will mention Kwanzaa also!
Reagan/Demint.deciple
Posted on December 7, 2010 at 8:10amWhat a D#ck !!!!! Imagine people actually go to the stewart show for their news.. BTW, John you were offended/embarassed by your last name, right ? Is that why you changed it ? Get the point, dope ?
Report Post »dont ****** me bro
Posted on December 7, 2010 at 8:56am1. nobody gets the news from a comedy show…its a parody made even funnier that YOU don’t get the joke.
Report Post »2. He likely changed his name because of anti semitic hillbillies like you.
tranquilrider
Posted on December 7, 2010 at 12:06pmNice job arguing his point. Make fun of his name and call him names. Typical Blaze response.
Report Post »NeoFan
Posted on December 7, 2010 at 3:19pmMany young people do get their news from Stewart and Colbert or they don’t get any news at all. Why should they as long as the magical hamburger trucks keep coming from Redneck Flyover Fairy Land. If the trucks stop and they actually have to become a vegan like they pretend to be it will be very confusing to them. How will they live without 100% of everything they need being provided by ObamaGod. They may get very mad and send a tweet the really really smart people running the Government. Oh My!
Report Post »alwayssora
Posted on December 7, 2010 at 8:07amWho’s Jon Stewart? Gretchen is right. It’s a CHRISTMAS PARADE. You fools need to get over it!
Report Post »Atheist
Posted on December 9, 2010 at 4:12amIt is a Christmas parade that happens 3 weeks before Christmas during Chanakuh?
Report Post »Conserving Ink
Posted on December 7, 2010 at 8:05amThe man seems to have his holidays mixed up. The lady is trying to save Christmas. Its more like she fought back in the War on Christmas. I live near Tulsa and even though Inhofe is a RINO, I support him in this boycott. It needed to be done.
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http://conserving-ink.blogspot.com/2010/12/government-we-didnt-elect.html
DagneyT
Posted on December 7, 2010 at 8:05amI want to know what kind of morons are in the audience that think this is funny? Is it any wonder this goof ball’s numbers are so low?
Report Post »Reagan/Demint.deciple
Posted on December 7, 2010 at 8:13amIt’s called a laugh track… I think.. I don‘t think it’s funny either.. I think it’s rather dull. lol
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on December 7, 2010 at 8:04amFolks, please donate generously, so that we may help those poor souls like Jon Stewart who were born with with an extra sphincter in the middle of their face.
Report Post »Marcobob69
Posted on December 7, 2010 at 8:18amMan, you got that right! As do most of the “UBER LEFT”! And, the excrement never stops flowing out of that extra sphincter!
ConservativeBeauty
Posted on December 7, 2010 at 8:32amTXPILOT you arer SO funny!! Love your humor!! good one!!
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on December 7, 2010 at 8:38amWith all the people these days that seem to have this condition, I think I’m going to invent an adult-size diaper that’s worn over the face…….I will be rich beyond my wildest dreams!!
Report Post »Dirty Harry
Posted on December 7, 2010 at 10:05amDepends as headwear, I like it.
Report Post »TrueGrit
Posted on December 7, 2010 at 3:07pmDoesn’t one already exist… called a burka or something like that?
Sorry… me bad.
Wolverine
Report Post »treshall
Posted on December 7, 2010 at 9:10pmYes,TX, it’s yet another tragedy that befall so many of the unenlightened-yet-unbearably-arrogant left.
and ABC, I don’t know where you get your information but allow me to correct two of your more glaring errors:
Report Post »1. The truth is that twice as many Americans self-identify as conservative so, yes, the majority of the country is conservative, not liberal. Leftists merely think they are the majority because (a) the mainstream media delivers only the left’s side of every story and (b) because they never socialize with anyone who isn’t a leftist, they tend to think, wrongly, that the left comprise the majority of the
country.
2. The majority of Americans also self-identify as Christian so Obama’s assertion that “We are no longer a predominately Christian nation” is, like so much of what comes out of his mouth, erroneous; mere wishful thinking.
So while you may think that the majority of the country are applauding Jon Stewart, it’s really a very, very tiny sound.
mintyfresh
Posted on December 9, 2010 at 5:41pmi’ve heard you (or someone else) use this line several times. you do know it makes no sense, right? do you know what a sphincter is? do you know we have many in our bodies including several on our faces? you are so moronic. buy a book sometime and actually try to learn something.
Report Post »Cemoto78
Posted on December 7, 2010 at 8:02amMore political correctness. They wouldn‘t be having a parade if it wasn’t for Christmas.
Shurmus
Posted on December 7, 2010 at 8:11amStewart has to have something to feed his audience…knashing of teeth is their favorite thing to do.
http://www.slugbuddies.com
NapoHill15
Posted on December 7, 2010 at 8:30amIt is very odd, maybe even ironic that Stewart’s brain still supports bodily functions operating on such a low flicker of light . . . Yet he believes he has attained enlightenment with his little flame that illuminates his world so bright.
It’s amazing what even the tiniest of embers can do to a room that is totally dark.
Carry on Mr. Stewart . . . carry on; you are doing what you were born to do. But when you open the door and piss into the wind know that we are not laughing with you.
thesixfour
Posted on December 7, 2010 at 8:38am1. John Stewart is not, never has been never will be, news – let’s always remember that.
2. Can you imagine what a pathetic career this slug would have if it weren’t for FOX news? I am pretty sure the last movie I saw him in was as the “crazy-seen-that-on-weeeed?” guy in Half Baked.
3. Loser
JimOhio
Posted on December 7, 2010 at 8:42amPolitical correctness: A doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.
Report Post »@leftfighter
Posted on December 7, 2010 at 8:48amJon Stewart mocks Fox. This is a headline unworthy of the site. Why? Relevancy and commonality.
One, Jon Leibowitz isn’t a newscaster. He‘s a comedian doing a job that Chevy Chase did in the late ’70′s. What’s the difference? Somehow, people actually take Leibowitz seriously.
As to commonality, come on. “Jon Stewart mocks Fox?” You could write this headline literally every day. There’s nothing to see here. Move along.
Report Post »lketchum
Posted on December 7, 2010 at 9:01am@thesixfour
Sadly however, many under the age of 30 view Stewart’s program as news and the truth as I see it, Stewart is doing exactly as he intended – hiding behind satire and alleged humor to deliver a news perspective that occupies the extreme left bank of the progressive party. It’s been highly effective in a number of contexts and he knows (but surely can’t be happy about it in all regards) that his dumed-down audience mops it up and repeats it.
Report Post »Dirty Harry
Posted on December 7, 2010 at 9:58amGretcheb Carlson is annoying, I’ll give Stewart that much. Although you have to respect how creatively she work into nearly every conversation that she was in the Miss American beauty pageant. Yes, Gretchen, we know.
Report Post »Dirty Harry
Posted on December 7, 2010 at 10:03amDid you know Gretchen was in the Miss America beauty contest? Seriously, she was…I don‘t know how you missed the 79 times she’s said so. I think she even brought her tiara to the broadcast once.
Report Post »abc
Posted on December 7, 2010 at 10:39amTulsa has become much more mutli-ethnic in the last 70 years. The natural gas industry has attracted many non-Christians to the city. My high school friend, whose parents immigrated from Pakistan, and who is Muslim, works for a leading energy trading firm in the city. Another Jewish classmate of mine from college also has moved to Tulsa. The growing presence of people like that, who also bring their kids to the parade, has led sponsors and organizers to change the language to open up the event to all. As Jon Stewart’s little cartoon montage highlights in a funny way, calling it a holiday parade doesn’t actually diminish Christmas, nor does the parade, which features secular Santa Claus more than religious Jesus, really represent a religious event anyway. So the good of the name change would seem to outweigh the negligible negatives.
I think, however, that Stewart misses the point. Conservatives are projecting frustration that Christmas has become so commercialized and are projecting it on the organizers of this parade. Gretchen notes that corporate pressure causes companies to do what makes economic sense even when it diminishes or dilutes Christmas. That can be not only the decision by Walmart to have employees greet customers with happy holidays rather than merry christmas, but it also includes the overt commercialization and crass exploitation of the holiday to move product. It also reflects frustration at the Establishment clause that prevents more overtly religious icons from being included in the parade on an exclusive basis.
What conservatives need to understand is that non-conservatives have these same frustrations but on other issues. For example, the emphasis on corporate profits is causing outsourcing of higher paying middle class jobs to China or their loss to automation, which concerns more liberal people in America. They similarly have needed to come to grips with the inevitability of market forces wreaking change on our economy and, therefore, our society. Also, the Citizens United decision has frustrated liberals by making it tougher to regulate the political speech of corporations and special interest groups, conflicting with a different vision of how elections should be run and how much money should be allowed to sway them for tiny but well funded groups.
Americans have to understand that the majority of the country is neither conservative nor liberal, nor even highly religiously Christian, so the calls for these uncompromising positions–that advocates love to call wars–are non-tenable. Further, they make the groups calling for them look foolish. It would be better to invent new occasions and formats to celebrate Christmas as they wish, without demanding that a much more diverse country continue to pretend that such diversity doesn’t exist, or that the Constitution doesn’t say what it says. And while Stewart is hardly a newsman, nor does he analyze this fake war on Christmas from every angle, he is definitely one of the better social and media critics in America today, who has gotten this issue mostly right. Kudos Jon.
Report Post »paperpushermj
Posted on December 7, 2010 at 11:34amIs this not silly. They renamed the parade because they cant name the name the parade was named for.
Report Post »Is that right?
google may 21
Posted on December 7, 2010 at 1:20pmCouldn’t agree more!
Report Post »HKS
Posted on December 7, 2010 at 1:49pmPeople with no talent have to do what they have to do to get attention. Probably somebody‘s brother in law or he wouldn’t have a job.
Report Post »Clive
Posted on December 7, 2010 at 2:40pm@leftfighter agreed. everytime i come to this site, its something about “jon stewart said this, watch this video”. this shouldn’t be news to anyone, or surprising… or whatever. we get it, he sucks, who cares, move on.
Report Post »indy1
Posted on December 7, 2010 at 3:00pmHow did the brilliant Jon Leibowitz miss this guest for his show: http://shakensilence.livejournal.com/24044.html?thread=156908#t156908
Report Post »MadeInAmerica
Posted on December 7, 2010 at 5:45pmIt appears Dirty Harry lost out to Gretchen back in the day, and is still sucking sour grapes.
Report Post »12 gauge
Posted on December 7, 2010 at 7:53pmwhy doesn’t this dbag use his real name, Jon Leibowitz?
Report Post »101
Posted on December 7, 2010 at 8:14pmThats 3 minutes of my life I’ll never get back…thats right, I could only listen to 3 minutes of this leftwing socialist idiot. “Add laughter here” still nothing, because he’s not funny!
Report Post »longhorn mama
Posted on December 7, 2010 at 10:13pmI have had a problem with Gretchen ever since she told O’Reilly that she did not think abortion was immoral. Notice she did not not comment on its legality, she said it was not immoral. But she said adultery is immoral. So, infidelity in marriage is immoral although legal, while infanticide is not only legal, it is moral!
Report Post »Also, Jon Liebowitz, aka Stewart, is a tool.
Abilene
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 1:25pmDang the Blaze. I didn’t need to ruin my lunch by reading about Jon Stewart. Leave these crap stories for the moveon.org web site. And BTW, God has already established that it’s actually Nietzsche who is dead.
Report Post »Atheist
Posted on December 9, 2010 at 4:11amOh my god… oh my god… oh my god…
What planet are you from?
How can anyone watch that and then say, “Eff Jon Stewart! How dare he point out that I’m being overly sensitive about Christmas and that I should just relax and be comfortable with my own faith!”
This is insanity. I can’t believe the things you supposed Christians say about other people.
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