‘You’re Insane’: Jon Stewart Debates Media Bias With FNC’s Chris Wallace
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The Daily‘s Show’s Jon Stewart appeared live on Fox News Sunday today to debate media bias with host Chris Wallace. Stewart has previously slammed the cable news giant in the past, calling it a “relentless agenda-driven 24-hour news opinion propaganda delivery system” — a characterization Wallace obviously took offense to.
“Where do you come up with this stuff?” Wallace asked Stewart.
Stewart stood by his remarks, but when Wallace later argued that the Comedy Central host was confusing comedy with political commentary — namely when comparing Sarah Palin’s “One Nation” tour with a herpes medication commercial — Stewart shot back, declaring Wallace was “insane.”
“Here’s the difference between you and I — I’m a comedian first,” Stewart said. “My comedy is informed by an ideological background, there’s no question about that. But the thing that you will never understand…is that Hollywood, yeah, they’re liberal, but that’s not their primary motivating force. I’m not an activist. I am a comedian.”
When Wallace noted that Stewart was a sort of liberal “activist,” Stewart fired back, claiming that Wallace “can’t understand… there is not a designed ideological agenda on my part to affect partisan change because that’s the soup you swim in… It reminds me of in ideological regimes, they can’t understand that there is free media other places because they receive marching orders.”
Here’s the full interview:
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CrackersSmurf
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 7:38pmDoes Glenn hate my money? I was a little broke this month but, I was going to reopen my gbtv+ or whatever. Might not now that I was for some reason banned from the blaze? ANYWAYS!
Conservatives see MSM as attack machines and opposite is true. I personally find that the emotion on the MSM side only comes when Weiner-gate comes to fruition. They all shed tears, meanwhile FOX seems to be pretty riled up about EVERYTHING they report on. It seems they look for passion and when people see passion. It sells.
Now back to my banning from the blaze. I hit the site before work before I hit DR. I read the stories and while spell check might be helpful I get what you are saying and it is as objectionable as a GB reporter could be. I never threaten anyone. Sure, I get a little fiery might say some bad words sometime but it never gets posted I check. Whatever tho. I am just one of the middle of the road people whom just kind of see both sides as the wrong side. You may only walk on the fence posts or it is harder to get into heaven than a camel through the eye of a needle.Point me.
Report Post »Buck_Ofama
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 8:05pmYou’re are an idiot.
Report Post »SamIamTwo
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 8:20pmApparently you’ve not paid attention to anything in the last 11 years.
Report Post »CrackersSmurf
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 9:18pmawe
Report Post »Malcom0983
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 7:38pmHe talks a good game but, if you have ever seen his show, he is obviously not as objective as he claims to be.
Report Post »FOX viewers are the most misinformed? Are you kidding me? MSNBC has to apologize for false stories every other week. NBC, ABC & CNN are proven foot soldiers of this administration so naturally, they won’t be telling certain stories or expressing certain points of view or asking certain questions. Their “round table” cessions are stacked with liberal extremists. So… in comparison, FNC is THE most fair and THE most balanced. Which would naturally make the viewers THE best informed. Not only because of the information on FNC but also, in large part, because of the nature of the conservative mind (not that we have a monopoly on thinking for ourselves). We don’t mind checking into a subject to get the full story.
Restored One
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 7:33pmI am a FOX viewer, and I am not blinded by one side or the other. I listen to liberal radio and TV to compare the information. What I have discovered is that the MSM does not cover the same information. When they do, it is a glaze over of the story or an attack of the way FOX has covered a particular story. But the other news outlets dont challenge FOX with counter information, they just dismiss it. So I find Stewarts statement that FOX viewers are the most dis-informed to be a total load of crap.
Report Post »AKMIIKEUS
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 9:54pm“At the end of the day, Chris, I get to say what I want… where you must repeat what you’re told.”
Jon Stewart
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 7:25amWhen you seriously characterize your opponents as mere puppets or mouthpieces you have lost, or at least abandoned, the argument because you imply that you can’t make an argument that concedes the opposition being honest and rational.
Report Post »bw3131
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 7:27pm1st; It is obvious that exrepublisheep is a lib posing as independant, so ignore him.
Report Post »2nd; I agree with Stewart on the point of most media being lazy and sensasionalist. Take Chris’s interview for example, If his point was to show Stewart as an agenda driven lefty he could have done so with ease, but was lazy in his research. Example: Show clip of Stewart (also lazy) jumping on lib bandwagon saying Palin was stupid for not knowing who Paul Revere was. Then ask why after LEARNING she was right he did not “make fun’ of the stupid lib media and himself. Another perfect example would have been his defense of Wiener, he said he was hacked he didn’t do it, and next day all comes out in the open, not a peep, from Stewart. Stewart knows most of his audiance are dolts so they will not look into any facts. So end result: Stewarts dolts BELIEVE Palin is stupid and wiener was set up. liberal agenda mission accomplished. Now can I have Chris Wallace’s job!
Islesfordian
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 5:38amTo give Stewart his due on the Weiner scandal, he DID pound on it mercilessly as soon as Weiner confessed it was true, and then pounded him for three more days. But he did drop it after that. I’m sure he felt there was no way he could avoid the topic. If it had been a conservative he would have gone back to that story and picked the meat off the bones, then made soup out of it. His approach to conservatives is often to spice up some pretty leans cuts with a heavy sauce, like making fun of conservatives for doing what many liberals have done but without mentioning that.
Report Post »Erabin
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 8:12am“His approach to conservatives is often to spice up some pretty leans cuts with a heavy sauce, like making fun of conservatives for doing what many liberals have done but without mentioning that.”
Well, you have to admit that Conservatives are HEAVILY guilty of that one too. See the current discussion of the debt ceiling etc.
Report Post »glennrocks
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 7:24pmI didn’t know he was Jewish.
Report Post »Glenn in Virginia
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 7:30pmThat’s okay; he doesn’t know it, either, Glennrocks.
Report Post »dscon
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 7:22pmi see weiner lies!
Report Post »ARIZONA VETERAN
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 7:12pmTODAY IS A VERY VERY CONFUSING DAY in THE gettos,,,,ITS FATHERS DAY!!!
Report Post »thors_hammer
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 2:56amArizona Veteran, I think the only confusion will be at your house, where the children that you fathered with you daughters will be almost as confused as those in the ghetto.
Report Post »Messenger4God
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 7:12pmStewart is more arrogant than funny. The Leftists love him because he uses the excuse of being a comedian to promote the Leftists’ agenda and ridicule those who are not in the tank with them.
Report Post »AKMIIKEUS
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 9:57pmI watch the news, read the news, etc and have since, oh, the late 70′s.
I have seen liberal bias and I have seen right wing bias, but I have never seen a more deliberate attempt to thwart truth in order to spread disinformation about a specific political party like what FOX does.
There is no debate, no equivalent, no denying it.
FOX is propoganda 24/7 for the far right with one exception: Shep Smith. He truly seems fair and balanced, but the rest of FOX will whitewash anything any Republican does. Anything.
Conversely, they will go out of their way to demonize anything Obama and Co does.
As for Stewart, tell me this: When has he deliberatly lied to his audience in order to hurt a Republican?
Report Post »When has he presented a 1/2 truth and hide the other 1/2 to hurt a Republican?
The righties flooding this talkback may not like Stewart, but I believe its because hes calling a spade a spade.
UlyssesP
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 11:23pm@AKMIIKEUS
Report Post »Get well soon.
Beckster2
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 7:05pmStewart may not think of himself as an activist out to affect ideological partisan change but he is certainly there to validate and encourage it. It’s the “soup” he swims in.
Report Post »bitterclinger
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 7:04pmI muted Stewart. Weiner’s college roommie, because I can’t take his sanctimonious crap. The visuals said A LOT. The usually fast and loose Leibowitz looked tense and angry the entire time, as it he couldn’t defend his commie point of view without a battalion of writers and an audience full of braying sheeple.
Report Post »Bhaub
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 10:05pmMuting the voice of someone whose politics you disagree with seems to be a logical, mature way to look at a debate. I‘m happy you’re not blinding yourself to anything that isn’t said through Beck. *pat, pat*
Report Post »Howard Ino
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 7:04pmThe Fox debate was like a slow train wreck… Kids love his arrogant humor. Understandably, as kids want to be sharp tongued like him… It’s tough and “intelligent”!
As an adult, I can not stand his elitist attitude. The idea that you are not smart enough “to understand me”… typifies the arrogance of the self appointed intelligencia.
I will never again tolerate the insults of this clown stating that Fox viewers are the most uninformed people in America… as if Fox is all we watch.
But I do have kids, and I know that J.S. is the only “news” most of them watch!
Never again FOX!
Report Post »Mr.Rubberball
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 7:02pm@tower7femacamp please take the truther stuff somewhere else. the inside job garbage has been debunked.
Report Post »GeorgieJo
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 7:48pmRUBBERBALL
EVERYTIME I see TowerFEMADoofus (and TIFFosy and AK-Merkious) I IGNORE
I suggest you do the same
NO BO in 2012
Report Post »MONICNE
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 8:44pmIts True Tower7 is getting to be as skanky-nuts as CheezWhiz
Report Post »AKMIIKEUS
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 9:51pmComedy Central gets more laughs, but the biggest joke is Fox News.
Report Post »CanDan
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 7:01pmJon is the definition of slimy left
Jon had Cat Stevens as a speaker at his restore sanity rally
Jihad Stevens as they call him nowadays
The connection is not by coincidence
Report Post »Alan
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 6:59pmAnyone who asserts that Stewart is a centrist is a commie.
Report Post »TheGreyPiper
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 7:44pmNot necessarily, could be just Down’s Syndrome.
Report Post »LIBSALWAYSLIE
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 6:51pmTotal liberal hack, he’s too stupid to know how ignorant he is
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 6:53amOr is he too arrogant to know how stupid he is? Hmmmmmm. choices, choices.
Actually, I don’t think he is stupid, any more than the rest of us. But he is suprememly arrogant, as liberals tend to be. That came out in spades in the interview. He takes himself VERY seriously as a “comedian”. THAT is his Achiles’ heel for anyone he knows how to exploit it. Not Chris Wallace. He was too nice and reasonably. Breitbart would have been better. Or Glenn, of course. Seriously mocking what a liberal comedian himself takes seriously is something he isn’t equiped to defend against.
Report Post »jdog777
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 6:22pmActually… with the Crowder email…. Stewart looks somewhat like a hypocrite, because his show blocks conservative guests to challenge his “liberally informed” misinformation. I have to say I like Stewart and I watch his show… but he is NOT a Comedian first.
Report Post »Mr. Oshawott
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 6:07pmWhat a very interesting debate they had there, since this is the first time I”ve seen Chris Wallace do battle with a liberal comedian.
Report Post »AKMIIKEUS
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 9:50pmWow…attacking Comedy Central for comedy. That was some serious grasping at straws going on.
Next on Fox…….…attacking the Food Channel for cooking………..
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 5:47amUnfortunately, Chris showed that humor isn’t his strong suit. He’s too respectful. He doesn’t understand that humor is like guerilla warfare. it isn’t upfront and respectful, like British soldiers fighting in a line. It’s like the American patriots sniping from behind the trees. To fight a comedian you are going to have to know and love comedy. You have to get down on their level.
Chris was trying to rationally prove Stewarts bias. Stweart bobed and weaved and parried with humor and sarcasm when his “serious” point didn’t stick. In order to defeat Stewart Chris would have had to mock him and his bias. But Chris was too nice to do that. So he lost. He was playing Marquisse of Queensbury rules with a street fighter.
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 6:02pmHey Jon wouldn’t it be funny to show how Donald Rumsfeld did
not know about wtc 7 falling on 911 ?
On Mancow Muller’s show today, Donald Rumsfeld was asked, “No plane hit building 7, why did building 7 come down? What do you tell people?”
Rumsfeld’s answer, “What is building 7?” … “I have no idea. I have never heard that.”
Report Post »Do you think he is lying, was he stumped, or does he actually have no idea what World Trade Center building 7 was?
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread666454/pg1
Dudley Do-Right
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 6:23pmPlease enough with the ridiculous conspiracy theory’s.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military/news/debunking-911-myths-world-trade-center
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 6:33pmhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvay28lZiHU&NR=1
sorry bro The Truth needs told
Report Post »911 is the bases for the un Patriot act and a major loss of our Freedoms.
and I feel like it was an inside job to help Israel and break our Constitution.
tower7femacamp
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 6:34pmIf wasn’t soo important why do we here about it every time some TSA worker wants in our pants ????
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 6:56pmTake a couple of Valium or something and make an emergency appointment with your therapist tomorrow and you’ll be alright………..
Report Post »TheGreyPiper
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 7:21pmPLease mods, cant you please ban this annoying, droning, self-aggrandizing troll? Don’t you understadn that every one of his posts is an advertisement and self-promotion?
Report Post »Loki99
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 8:15pmAre U off your meds???
Report Post »Malcom0983
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 9:04pmI like your style, sir.
Report Post »jim
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 5:57pmA serial Marxist like the rest of them. His comedy is a cover for his real agenda… same as Obama’s… same as Karl Marx.
Report Post »AKMIIKEUS
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 9:46pmStewart is a consumate pro — smart, skilled, poised and professional. But what some people don’t realize is that he IS NOT a spokesman for the left. He is a spokesman for what’s correct — whichever way that might go. And try as they might, Fox can’t cut him down.
Report Post »obama-mecca-me-sick
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 9:26am@AMAKISSAZZ
Report Post »Your post are so funny!! Your jokes about Stewart are hilarious!! The one about him being right no matter what side that falls on made me laugh my @zz off! Maybe you can be the lefts next clown on Commie Central.
Gatorslide
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 5:56pmYou’d think that if Jon Stewart makes millions a year, he’d know when to use “you and me” vs. “you and I”. He‘s a functional idiot that shouldn’t even be on television.
Report Post »AKMIIKEUS
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 9:42pmI think people on the Left tend to draw conclusions from a myriad of sources and for them the world is a complicated place with few easy answers. Conclusions on how to solve problems usually feel like compromise within that complicated world and theirs is often a long view that will see the causes of the problems we face rooted in the past. It’s hard work.
People on the Right tend to inherit their conclusions from their parents and seem incapable of drawing conclusions based upon independently sought out facts. Indeed they’re often incapable of distinguishing the difference between facts and opinion. For them the world is a much simpler place where solutions come in the shape of bullets, walls and identity cards. They’re not interested in the long view, to them immediate action – whether right or wrong – is preferable to contemplation which they view as weakness.
Or to put it another way, being on the Left requires a considerable amount of chewing before swallowing your conclusions. Being on the Right requires no chewing and Fox News is the perfect example of this, it’s little more than a pre-digested IV pumped straight into the vein. It’s easy answers without the chewing and with little consideration to what’s being digested. It’s anger and laziness wrapped in emotion.
Or to put it another way, being on the Left means often defining yourself by what you love, whereas being on the Right means defining yourself by what you hate.
Report Post »clrkrd
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 5:54pmHollywood has not liberal agenda? Apparently John missed the videos released a couple weeks ago, where they openly admit that they do and are proud of it. Hmmmm, maybe he didn’t know because his writers forgot to tell him
Report Post »ARealCharliesAngel
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 5:53pmGee….I wonder if Stewart asked his buddy Cat Stevens (who appeared at the Stewart/Colbert Rally in DC) how he felt about the killing of Bin Laden????????
Report Post »AKMIIKEUS
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 9:40pmWallace had the advantage of being able to put up clips and quotes, but still got owned…
Imagine all the clips Jon could have showed of Steve Doucy and Hannity etc…
Report Post »geonj
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 5:49pm““Where do you come up with this stuff?” Wallace asked Stewart ” his writers.
Report Post »“… It reminds me of in ideological regimes, they can’t understand that there is free media other places because they receive marching orders.” he is refering to msnbc with the “marching orders” comment.
as a comedian, stewart is ok. as a fair minded individual, i think he has a long way to go. he is delusional and turns a blind eye to the leftist loons.
Libertarian
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 8:52pmWallace got owned. Stewart is without a doubt a liberal/progressive, to say he is a centrist is ridiculous.
I partially agreed with Stewart, in that he is a comedian and not held to the same standard as news media – and he shouldn’t be. He is wrong when he asserts Fox is biased and MSNBC is not. His large audience is no fault of his own, liberals seek news through comedy (Bill Maher, Al Franken & Lewis Black) because it cannot be rendered through presenting the facts via news media. Liberals cannot debate why they feel the way they do.
Report Post »Firebrand
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 9:51pm@libertarian
The problem is that the 18-24 demographic use Stewart as their only news source. i’ve encountered this multiple times. The conversation goes something like this:
Me – “Do you have proof to back up your claim?”.
Them – “Yes”
Me – “Did you hear it on the news or read a paper or look it up in the congressional record?”
Them – “No, But I did watch the daily show.”
I promise that the most ignorant among the young use the Daily Show as their source for “news”. Jon knows this. So to say he isn’t pushing an agenda is….. insane?
Report Post »TheBMT
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 10:48pmHe is referring to Fox as well. All the big media in this country has an agenda. Its not even news anymore. The only one I consider pure is probably C-span.
Report Post »Libertarian
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 11:16pm@Firebrand
I do not doubt that this demographic is among the most ignorant on political philosophy, current issues & breaking news. We can agree that there is a problem with young-adults using News-comedy as their source for news information. A better question is what is the solution?
I will tell you what we should not do…
Take a comedian seriously just because he has influence on liberal youth, when his intention is to be a comedian, on a network called “Comedy Central” that happens to talk about politics.
What we need to do is bring the debate to the sheep and take the herd in the right (literal and figurative) direction.
Great post Firebrand
Report Post »Firebrand
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 2:59am@libertarian
Thank you.
Solutions? That’s a tough one. Is there any news source that doesn’t tilt with a particular slant? Would removing news stations from the Nielson ratings system help? Maybe. It would be interesting to finally have news that just gave you the straight facts without cherry picking to support the pundits own views. It’s hard to milk the cash cow with that business model. Maybe it would be better to teach people to approach information with skepticism but without cynicism.
Going back to the issue at hand with Jon. The question I have is whether his audience follow him because he reiterates what they believe, or if they believe it because he has said it. Unfortunately, the latter is probably true. It’s all about context. To admit, I am guilty at times of not digging deeper. I’m always surprised that in the information age that people still take politicians/pundits at face value (even though many times there are two of them), but I’m being cynical. =o)
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 5:27am“I will tell you what we should not do…Take a comedian seriously”
That is dead wrong. Comedy is one of the most effective mediums of influential communication. A skilful comedian can use comedy to push an agenda and hide it through laughter. I‘m not sayiong that’s wrong. I wish our side could do it better. One of the things that made me listen to Glenn avidly as soon as I encountered him was his great sense of humor. It wasn’t lame like so many conservative comics can be necause they are trying not to offend their conservative audience. Liberals have the advantage over us in naturally reveling in the rebelious nature that comedy requires.
I see people here say that South Park isn’t funny. Sadly, that attitude will ensure that conservatives never capture the dominant media. They are like cultural John McCain’s protesting against harsh interrogation. Comedy is rude and disrespectful by nature. But the truth is that there are many sacred cows out there that need to be disprespected and done so rudely so that people will wake up. Ridicule is not our only weapon, but it has to be one of them. And it has to be taken seriously enough to be done right.
If we aren‘t serious about our comedy we won’t be funny. ;-)
Report Post »Weiners Wiener
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 5:39pmOf course Stewart claims Hollywood doesn’t have an agenda to promote liberalism. The entire left would go insane if he admitted it. Not to mention, it would hurt his good standing with those who write his checks. Drug dealers don‘t advertise that they’re out to get people addicted. Casinos don’t tell people the drinks are free so they lose more money gambling. C’mon, Stewart. This is too easy.
Report Post »GeorgieJo
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 6:49pmJonnyBoy KNOWS where HIS paycheck COMES from
Again I feel so sorry for his kids
Kudos to Chris Wallace for CUTTING Jonny’s yappy mouth OFF
Report Post »AKMIIKEUS
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 9:53pmNotice how quickly Wallace changed the subject when Stewart told him that FOX NEWS viewers were the most misinformed of all news viewers?
Stewart was just repeating the findings of the University of Maryland study which found FOX NEWS was rated # 1 in the nation in audience ignorance.
Report Post »101
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 10:14pm@GeorgieJo
And so does Chris Wallace, it‘s their job that’s what they get paid to do…you really believe in the media? A Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal owns the majority of stocks in Fox News parent company…
Who Stands With Israel (NOT FOX) watch the video below…
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal on Obama’s Handling of Israel -Fox Business.P1/4…A MUST SEE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0j_18ypcs0
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 7:20am“Notice how quickly Wallace changed the subject when Stewart told him that FOX NEWS viewers were the most misinformed of all news viewers?”
When someone makes an emotionally laden and ridiculously ungrounded assertion as Stewart did, and you don‘t want to go for the jugular because you’re nice, as Wallace is, you ignore it and move on to more substantive matters.
FOX viewers are the most misinformed according to (his words) “all the polls”? Really? What polls are these? CNN and MSNBC polls. NYT polls? Huffington Post polls? Daily Kos polls?
What a ludicrous claim. It didn’t rise above the level of a hack leftist blog. Chris Wallace was gentlemanly in treating Stweart as if he wasn’t arguing like a teenager,
“All my friends agree with me, and you‘re stupid because you don’t get it! You just can’t understand me!!!”
That last bit was verbatum what he said. What a child.
Report Post »jb.kibs
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 10:30ammisinformed? that is just another word for misindoctronated. or miseducated, or misbrainwashed.
Report Post »Informed is a relative term… you can be ‘informed’ wrogly and think it’s right, want proof? look at the flat world image on this site… THE MAJORITY thought the world was flat, and called “round earthers”, “misinformed”… good game.
Exrepublisheep
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 5:33pmStewart may be one of the very few centrists out there. Which I’m sure will make him a liberal commie here on the Blaze.
Report Post »Weiners Wiener
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 5:39pmHow can you call him a centrist, when he admits he’s a liberal? Because you have no credibility. Which in turn makes YOU a liberal, too.
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 5:40pmI like Jon Steward, he is funny even if he does lean left.
Report Post »I wish he would condemn the un Patriot Act more.
And really point out that Obummer has put us into more wars since Bush
so how is that Liberal ?
John 1776
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 5:41pmNo, he’s a lib. At least he on occasion does point out when Libs are messing up, but he is no where near center. I would call him “just to the right of left.”
Report Post »barak hussein osama arafat brotherhood
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 5:45pmstewart is so much a brain washed lib, he can’t see it, or reality either.
Report Post »Glenn in Virginia
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 5:46pmCenter of what, the Left Edge of Reality?
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 5:48pmExrepublisheep
Report Post »Stewart may be one of the very few centrists out there
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and Madeline Albright as Playboy centerfold makes you droooooool I’m sure
cheezwhiz
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 5:50pmStewart fired back, claiming that Wallace “can’t understand… there is not a designed ideological agenda on my part to affect partisan change
Report Post »———–
So Steven Crowder is now welcome on Daily Show + Colbert Report+Comedy Central ?
CatB
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 5:52pmI watched it .. typical liberal progressive .. when you can’t defend your postition or make a point — call names. Stewart proved he has good writers … because he isn’t that sharp on his own.
TEA!
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 5:52pmAbsolutely!
Report Post »Anyone who thinks that FOX has a right wing agenda and the rest of media, including MSNBC, doesn’t have a far left wing agenda is worse than a “liberal commie”.
And if you think Stewart is a centrist, then YOU are a “liberal commie too”.
I watched the whole interview, did you?
wavy1953
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 5:59pmYour comment is so predictable,
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 6:07pmcome on Jon why ignore this ???????
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKbSMD0ZGY4
what happened to Building 7 ????
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 6:10pmhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKuad28d64c&NR=1
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 6:11pmWallace is a total square South Park is Friking Hilarious
Report Post »is he a Preacher ????
tower7femacamp
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 6:14pmhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJsJjYwYOAA&feature=related
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 6:16pmhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6Xoxaf1Al0&NR=1
the truth is out there if you care to look
Report Post »this clip is only 20 secs long
Want our country back
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 6:17pmI watched him on Chris Wallace and when he started talking about the MISINFORMED Fox viewers, he visibly got angry…. his whole demeanor changed…. he looked liked your typical liberal….. he didn’t offer any proof of his statement while Chris showed examples of Left liberal bias….. he dismissed it all and got mad….. I don’t mind him as a comedian, when he’s funny.
Report Post »Ironmaan
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 6:17pmHe continually espouses a left leaning ideology; what position makes him “centritst”?
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tower7femacamp
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 6:18pmJon you really need to look at the 19 911 hijackers
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7ixuf236Dk&feature=related
tower7femacamp
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 6:22pm911 witness poisoned , Wow Jon that could be funny
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Dougral Supports Israel
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 6:38pmStewart is Left like the great majority of Hollywood people. I don’t care. I’ve stopped paying attention to any of them. Its ludicrous that comedian thinks he’s as serious a player as a newsman. Its so stupid it’s not worth watching.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 6:38pmWhy does anyone listen to Steward for more than comedy laughter; he admits to being slanted to the left in his programming and propaganda.
Report Post »BetterDays
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 6:46pmSince Chris Wallace is a screaming globalist, I’ll take Stewart over him, although I wouldn’t take Stewart over a plush stuffed carnival toy.
Report Post »I don’t even watch fox anymore, or lame stream left media other, I rely on Drudge and fan out from there.
Taquoshi
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 6:48pmActually, I think Stewart is funny and he’s right that he is a comedian first, not a political commentator, although some people think every word that comes out of his mouth is gospel. His business is ENTERTAINMENT.
Chris Wallace on the other hand is supposedly a news commentator and reporter. His agenda is not to report the news, but to introduce and reinforce social change by his frequently nasty comments.
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 6:48pmHis point is that he’s a comedian first. He goes where the comedy is, on both sides. One time I saw him have a big political influence was when he shamed the Republicans into voting with the Dems to approve the 911 First Responders bill.
Report Post »AOL_REFUGEE
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 6:53pmStewart’s got himself brainwashed.
Report Post »survivorseed
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 6:54pmWell its nice for Wallace to admit that Fox compares itself to Comedy Central and not the other news outlets.
Report Post »american1st
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 7:16pmsure stewart isnt biased!! and if you belive it i have a bridge to sell http://www.youtube.com/user/StevenCrowder#p/u/5/JiRBT5vl7Tk
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 7:24pmNobody, even he, said that he “isn’t biased.” His PURPOSE is not politics. His PURPOSE is comedy.
Report Post »Mandors
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 7:26pmClassic liberal denial. “Oh no, I’m a centrist, oh no I have no agenda…”
Yeah, right.
Report Post »Glenn in Virginia
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 7:28pmtower7femacamp, you really need to get back on your meds.
Report Post »MONICNE
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 7:33pmStewart points out absurdity – period. He is a comedic conscience for left and right, foreign and domestic, commercial and non profit, political and independent, enduring and generational topics.
He is the emeritus court jester, like Charlie Chaplin and Will Rogers in decades past.
He keeps everyone honest – and if their skins are not appropriately deep, they feel scalped!
If you are offended by Comedy Central you must in your heart feel Guilty!
Report Post »bw3131
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 7:43pmDon‘t take it personal that I’ve labeled you as a poser, but honestly, do you really think we believe you were once smart enough to be a Republican, I thought you libs believed in evolution, not the dumbing down of society through Govenment run propaganda and state controlled education.
Report Post »betterthantv
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 7:51pm@Ex
How can you call him a “centrist” with a straight face? Stewart can be funny, no doubt. But he is overwhelmingly liberal. If you can’t see that, it says more about you than any of us here at The Blaze.
Report Post »click_name_4_impeachment
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 7:57pmWallace was weak……
Report Post »indy1
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 7:57pmJon Leibowitz would be a centrist in the Soviet Politburo. It was fun watching Chris Wallace shred him like lettuce with a grater. He simply won’t admit he wants to be another Johnny Carson, who used his power in the media to destroy Anita Bryant for opposing homosexual activists in Florida.
Report Post »Wayner
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 8:00pmMSNBC is not a far left news organization pushing liberal bias??? What kind of blind idiot would fall for that?
Report Post »Buck_Ofama
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 8:03pmyou’re an idiot.
Report Post »Loki99
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 8:09pmtower7femacamp
Report Post »you really need a vacation, I suggest a small island just south of Fla. they have a great camp for ppl just like you there.
Showtime
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 8:09pmWeiner’s Weiner made the second comment.
I‘m just not going to reply to Weiner’s Weiner.
I misread the headline. Thought it said Stewart called Chris Matthews “insane.” Had me going there for a minute!
Report Post »AZfreeman
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 8:10pmStewart says, “..Hollywood, yeah, they’re liberal, but that’s not their primary motivating force..”
Only a hard core Liberal (or a fool, or a liar) would not be able to see that Liberalism is Hollywood’s ONLY motivating force…they don’t even care if they make money any more. Yeah, he may be funny…….if you’re 10.
One of Hitler’s most successful tactics to turn the German people against the Jews, was to make them look foolish and make fun of them. Oh,don’t worry, it was just “comedy”.
“When they came for the Jews, I said nothing”
…rf
Report Post »338lapua
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 8:11pmHA HA HA HA HA!
Report Post »You KILL me!
A CENTRIST!!!!
Jon Stewert is an ADMITTED ideolgical liberal. To label a grapefruit as a supercomputer shows how deep you are in this.
Better get another glass of Kool Aid!
Huguenot Descendant
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 8:18pmStewart is an ideological liar. Like heck he has no agenda. Who does he think 99.9% of his pot smoking fan base vote for? If you answered Progressives than Congratulations, you aren’t a brainwashed Keynesian!
Seriously though how many times is he going to say “ideological” to try and make himself look smart? This is the guy who was Wieners roommate in college so that should be a sign on the direction of his incentive.
Report Post »Huguenot Descendant
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 8:28pm@tifosa
“His point is that he’s a comedian first. He goes where the comedy is, on both sides.”
Is that why he choose to go after Palin for something completely unfunny when he had a comedy gold story which played out on a politician showing his drawers who’s name was “Wiener”?
You are a prime example from what I just spoke of about brainwashed Liberal Keynesian whom think Stewart is the best thing to happen since sliced bread. Seriously sometimes I think you should listen to yourselves when you talk about him, it‘s almost as bad as how you looked during Obama’s inauguration.
Report Post »An Arizonan
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 8:32pmStewart, like Olberman, is an idiot.
Report Post »SPOT_OF_TEA
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 8:33pmBarney Frank…Harry Reid…Jon Stewart….why do all these leftists have 2 first names?I’m starting to think they pick the names of their first 2 boyfriends and go with it.
Report Post »american1st
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 8:38pm@tifosa if his purpose is comedy, why does his show black list conservative comedians???
http://www.youtube.com/user/StevenCrowder#p/u/5/JiRBT5vl7Tk
deny the bias all you want leftists, your true colors are showing for the world to see
Report Post »poorrichardsnews
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 8:41pmHow’s this for insane? Now CBS is suggesting that Michele Bachman is lying about her foster children: http://poorrichardsnews.com/post/6701820917/smear-merchants-at-cbs-accuse-michelle-bachman-of
Report Post »hauschild
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 8:44pmStewart got his ass handed to him by Wallace. Any time you’re reduced to calling your adversary in a debate “insane”, you‘ve lost control of your message and you’ve lost the debate.
How a “supposed” intelligent person can, with a straight face, claim the media has no liberal bias is living in their own, fantastic world – which most liberals complacently occupy.
Report Post »hauschild
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 8:47pmTower7:
I must admit you had me intrigued with the topics you comment on, but you ruined it for me by saying Jon Stewart is good and not only that you watch South Park, but find it “hilarious”.
Report Post »Doug in Seattle
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 8:52pmRomney is a centrist, Manchin might be called a centrist – but Stewart?
Just because he doesn’t foam at the mouth like Garafalo, doesn’t mean he believes any different. His pokes at Obama are because he thinks the president isn’t doing enough for the left.
Report Post »DisillusionedDaily
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 8:59pmI like Stewart. I have heard him bash both conservatives and liberals and he did it with a smile. I consider him to be a slightly left of center American.
Report Post »HankScram
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 8:59pm@ AZFREEMAN, you said:
“Only a hard core Liberal (or a fool, or a liar) would not be able to see that Liberalism is Hollywood’s ONLY motivating force…they don’t even care if they make money any more.”
This is the very reason conservatives aren’t funny – often – and why conservatives can’t laugh at themselves – often. There is a core group of conservatives – the type who post on The Blaze – who’s entire life revolves around “winning” the battle of ideology. This group does not understand that many people put other things first in their life. Some people want to be comedians, or good writers, or a scientist . . . and so on. Their goal in life is not to advance a political agenda. But this core group of conservatives or tea party folk can’t imagine that because their life has become consumed with it – they think they are carrying George Washington’s torch.
Learn to love something about life other than some religious dogma. Learn that sometimes your political or religious ideas are not “100% truth” and then you can begin to understand there is more to life than just convincing everyone else you are right about politics and religion. Then you can laugh at John Stewart. And maybe yourself.
Report Post »hauschild
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 9:11pm@HankScram:
Ya know, there are times I envy people like you – no BS. I swear, since I was 12, I feel like Rowdy Roddy in “They Live” – only I don’t see aliens or dead people, I see decadence of a culture.
Sometimes I wake up with the goal of not caring for the day, but it lasts until about 9 am.
Report Post »HankScram
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 9:21pm@ Hauschild,
Some people might look at you and see decadence. That’s my point. If you realize your judgment of other people’s decadence MIGHT occasionally be wrong, then you’re no longer playing God, you are just doing your best. I think most of us can keep busy focusing on our own decadence for a lifetime and leave the judging to someone else. It won’t happen. It’s an outgrowth of the complaining gene so many have. I wish we’d all stop pointing fingers at each other, calling each other names, just stand up for our values without feeling the need to denigrate others – it doesn’t make us right. I’m confident conservative values can win in the marketplace of ideas, in the world of public debate – but we don’t need to be the all-knowing, all-mighty, know-it-alls claiming we speak for God. We’re losing a huge part of the public with that approach. Shoot for 10 a.m.
Report Post »Thatsitivehadenough
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 9:25pmJon Stewart is as smart as most liberals think they are. As smart as groupthink allows them to be, that is.
Report Post »101
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 9:32pmJohn Stewart is a great comedian and he called it like he saw it…like it or dislike it Stewart was right, Wallace is confused trying to split hairs!
There’s leftwing and rightwing media, people have to decipher for themselves what’s real, what’s news, what’s comedy, and what’s propaganda…don’t believe anything you see or hear, unless you’ve done your research!
Report Post »Rice Water
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 9:42pmI don’t know why I bother, but I’ll try anyway.
Fundamental difference between lame Fox News attempts at comedy (i.e. “The Half Hour News Hour” and “The Glenn Beck Show”) is that The Daily Show puts comedy and entertainment ahead of agenda. The Fox commentators try to make comedy fit their agenda, and fail miserably every time.
Report Post »lillymckim
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 9:44pmI love the way Jon Stewart aka Leibowitz climbs back into his
Report Post »“I’m just a “comedian” shell” when backed into a corner by Wallace!
lillymckim
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 9:51pmJon Stewart aka Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz is a phony he changed his name in 1986 he rejected his ancestry until he made it big .. then and only then did he become the self-deprecating ambassador of Jewishness… his parents or his brother didn’t change their names..
Fraud with a capital … P!
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 9:51pmThe problem with Stewart’s show, while sometimes it is very funny — and that yes, he is a comedian first, many and I mean MANY young Americans actually get their news source from them. That may not be Jon’s fault, at least not entirely, but he has to understand the influence he has.
Report Post »mils
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 9:59pmstewart is a comedian being funny at the expense of conservatives
We must also realize he is the source of “news” for many folks…source of news..totally disgusting what our world has come down to..
Report Post »roguetea
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 10:01pmrogue, True Education, America
Most centralist cry for the strong fiscal policy of ‘living within means,’ something not making for many laughs by the Stewart, ideological comedic relief, in need of toilet flush. Simple fact, his comedy is favored by the Hollywood liberal mindset, not mid-west, or deep south, hard work. Not willing to own up to the impact of his own jesting, makes him sound dumb and hypocritical.
He fails to see or even comprehend the liberal bias our colleges, universities and ivy towers have touted for decades, for me, early 70′s. Rooted in no-God theories, for either all of it, or all that matters for daily life, creates dead end intellects feasting only on here and now. Outright atheism, agnosticism, deism, or a robe of total religious apathy matters not. All place the rule of man above God. Worst are those who put words of faith through lips, that never strike heart or change walk, the course most politicians opt. Stewart is blinded by his own inability to make sense out of all of it. He is left, spouting atop the short towers of pseudo-educated half-truth. Their ivy dries and decays, unknown to them;t.
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Al J Zira
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 10:05pm@Exrepublisheep: Where is it written that being a centrist is the ideal? This country was founded on conservative values, the majority of the country is/has conservative values and along with those values are christian values and foundation. I don’t want centrist, progressive or liberal anything. Liberal is what has this country in the mess it’s in today.
Report Post »OlefromMN
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 10:07pmHe lost all credibility when he refused to consider the MSM possibly being a “propaganda delivery system”.
Report Post »henryKnox
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 10:12pmChris Wallace is about as much of a centrist as you are going to find. I understand the left so I don’t really watch him because he is always making excuses for the left. He acts like they are not purposely trying to shred the Constitution. We know they are not acting on good will, they will lie and cheat to cover up their true intentions and believe that it is justified by the end result of enslaving the captialists.
Report Post »Meyvn
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 11:24pmHmm. I’m not sure what makes Stewart a centrist. Whatever that is.
Report Post »Professional Infidel
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 11:30pmWon’t admit who he is “When it’s right there” the mainstream news isn’t biased, just like “Your funny” no joke about the left is funny, I can’t laugh at the distruction of America.
Report Post »Meyvn
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 11:32pmI kinda used to like Stewart. Not sure I do any more. Seems to be either stupid or dishonest.
Report Post »Meyvn
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 11:33pmAnd we don’t need any stinking treaties! Three pages or otherwise.
Report Post »JohnGalt
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 12:15amSo Jon thinks CBS,ABS,NBC do not have a liberal agenda?? I’ve just lost a lot of respect for Jon. I used to be center rightt until I saw the extreme liberal agenda of mainstream media, really they had pushed me to the right as far as I can go.
Report Post »mamachihuahua
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 12:40amWhen he’s not “on” doing his “satire” he’s decidedly not funny, more like rude and bitter!
Report Post »fightback
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 12:56amI listened to that interview. Stuart proved to me libs are either clueless, liars or in this case clueless liars. I mean come on MSNBC not biased , Fox is. I’m getting to the point where Fox has too much Combs, Powers, Willians ,Beckel, Hill , Ball and other loons from the left.
Report Post »Deuteronomy22
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 1:01amAnyone who has a clue about Roger Ailes and his history and very open right wing agenda knows that Fox is a pure GOP hype machine masquerading as a news network. That was his dream as far back as the 60s. As Beck says, do your own research.
Report Post »Deda1
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 1:12amOk Exrepublisheep, let me ask you where that puts someone like O’Reilly or Wallace? I see them bring on the left and right pundits or spokes people and do allow them to voice the opinions. I have also seen O’Reilly defend Obama. I don’t always agree with his views or the way he likes to cut off his guest so he can get to the next question, but he is not afraid to go to either side of the aisle. As for Wallace I see him grill Republicans about their plans and he wants specifics as to how they are reaching their #s or goals. That is more that I can say for anyone on MSNBC or most of the Lame Stream Media news sites such as ABC, CBS or NBC.
Report Post »Deda1
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 1:15amI will say there are shows out there on CNN that I do like, but over all I do find Fox to be more honest and asking relevant questions compared to the liberal news shows. I don’t hear fox bashing someone because of their race, views or going as far as name calling, say like MSNBC or many or the Democrats. The Republicans do tend to stick to the subject and try and debate the issue, to which many or the liberal / progressives refuse to do.
Report Post »CitizenHill
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 1:34amI find it amusing that Stewart doesn’t see himself in the same partisan soup of biases that he believes Wallace is swimming in, when his avowed liberalism guides him in his perceptions of what is news and/or commentary and is the basis of his political “comedic observations.”
Report Post »foobear
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 1:40amJust because Stewart bashes Obama semi-infrequently, doesn’t make him a moderate.
He’s a liberal, through and through.
Report Post »phil1765
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 2:21amYea ok Jon Stewart is a centrist where the hell do you start the centrist level at? Admitted that he is less of an arrogant d#$k than Bill Maher but he is no where near centrist. Chris hit it right on the head when he said that Stewart was hiding behind the I’m just a comedian thing. What freaking difference does it make if fox news leans right, it is the only beacon in a really dark night for anyone that is conservative. I will never understand how someone who watches the crap put out by the MSM is any more informed than the people who watch fox but that is all you ever hear from any of these so-called ellitists.
Report Post »gotta light
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 3:56amJon Stewart isn’t crazy, no, no he’lkl say and do anything to make a dollar including cross the picket line!! Remember he’ll do anything for a buck as well as a laugh.
How pathetic!
Hey bud gotta light?
Report Post »dr_funk
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 4:20amJon Stewart has no idea how influential he is among young people.
As a college student, some of the biggest liberals I know ONLY watch Jon Stewart’s Daily Show, and that’s how they get informed about current events. They don’t watch MSNBC, they don’t watch CNN, they watch The Daily Show.
Among young people, Jon Stewart is the most politically influential person on the left. Period.
Report Post »mickrussom
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 4:40amCentrist? Are you kidding? This guy is laughing and making millions off of joking around with impressionable youth WHILE THE COUNTRY BURNS TO THE GROUND. This man is a subhuman PIG. ANd he is extremely liberal, him and Colbert, they have NEVER admitted when they are dead wrong on stuff either. They are a seditious disease.
Report Post »quiet little lamb
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 4:44amOut of all the shows he is the Centrist. I’ve talked bad about him not doing pieces on MSNBC only to see an entire 15 minutes devoted to them. He is a liberal, but he is open-minded and not a fool. Now some of his past and present writers….HARDCORE progressives! Jason Jones helped out the The Yes Men. watch The Yes Men Fix the World to see that fiasco
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 5:11amThe proof against the line that he is “a comedian first” and that he “goes where the comedy is” is shown in his making fun of Cain wanting short bills. “I‘m Herman Cain and I don’t like to read”. That would be funny if there wasn’t the fact that the democrats passed multiple mega bills last year that nobody read because they were too long, and Glenn made fun of them mercilessly for it. We know Stewart watches Glenn, so he has to know about this comedy gold nugget, and yet he ignores it in order to mock Cain. That is blind partisan bias looking for ways to go after Republicans and give Democrats a pass on the larger offense.
The key to recognizing his bias is that, while he may attack his own side, he will usually do it in ways that won’t undermine his central narrative that Liberals are good because they care for people, the environment..blah, blah blah, just like the Dems sacrificed Weiner because he was no longer useful to them. But more importantly, he will NEVER acknowledge the legitimacy of conservative criticisms and mockery of liberals. There is a wealth of conservative mockery of liberalism, that South Park is able to mine because they are actually more “centrist” than Stewart is capable of being, that Syewart will never use either because he can’t see it as funny because it hits too close to his sacred cows or because he willfully ignores it.
He is NOT a “comedian first”. He is a LIBERAL first, a liberal comedian second, and a liberal political a
Report Post »GETLIFE
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 5:27amBalony.
Obama, Pelosi, Frank, and so many others are a walking, talking TREASURE TROVE of comedy material– left practically untouched by Stewart and other liberal comedy kings and queens. Instead, they squeeze every last drop they can get out of Palin, Bush and Cheney. Weiner no one could resist, but then again he is not intrinsically representative of the Democratic party, as are Obama, Pelosi, Reid, Frank….
Report Post »Petire
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 5:52amI like Stewart. I disagree with him politically, but I like him. The problem is that he doesn’t understand the impact he has. The youth are watching comedy shows like his more and more as a replacement to to news. The result is that he becomes a newscaster. He may not think he’s a newscaster (because he technically isn’t) but to many he is. His comedy becomes the foundation for many student’s ideologies; and his comedy is generally liberal.
Report Post »frodis
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 7:49amThe problem with Stewart is that first off he hates Palin because he thinks she’s stupid and ignorant. If he were such a centrist then he would have the same exact view of Obama. Obama has no experience and has plunged this country into deeper debt. I seriously doubt Palin could have done any worse. Oh and tell me you don’t think Obama LOVES the “Situation” room President Bush so grandly redid. You know he does.
Report Post »SgtB
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 7:57amI‘m sure you’re right exrepublisheep. I‘m sure that Jon isn’t liberal at all. I’ve got news for you, you are still a sheep and the wolves will soon eat you and use your skin to get closer to your sheep friends.
Report Post »obama-mecca-me-sick
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 8:23am@WEINERS WEINER
Report Post »Bawahahahahaha
Love your screen name. Its almost as funny as Stewart being called a centrist by the media matters troll.
proudpatriot77
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 8:25amOh yeah sure, I know when I want to think of centrists in Hollywood, I think of Jon Stewart. My question is, why is he afraid to admit his bias? Is it because he shares his beliefs with such a small percentage of Americans?
Report Post »DTOM_Jericho (escaped PA)
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 8:47amBS. Stewart is nowhere near a centrist. He has been on O’Reilly saying that Obama is not far enough left for him. Stewart hides behind the “comedian” label when it’s convenient. When he has someone to blast; he goes all out, swears a little more, goes ad hominem, talks over and basically tries to catch his target off guard –the attacked are still thinking he is a comedian. So he gets to act like a Saul-Alynski-liberal but he can claim it’s comedic. Genius? No. The hosts and his guest are stupid enough to get trapped by a childish tactic.
Saul Alynski = act like a prepubescent boy losing at a video game –this is not a tactic; this is immaturity. To refer to S.A. attacks as tactics gives them way too much credit. S.A. and his followers do not deserve credit for being spoiled, immature, brain-washed, college “educated”, marxist, hippies.
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 9:02amOkay, Jon,
‘SPLAIN THIS – NBC just edited out “UNDER GOD” in the pledge of allegiance, not once, but twice!
Lazy? Probably, they are. However, editing something OUT takes EXTRA WORK, so, this is INTENTIONAL. CLEAR CASE of media bias. The only laziness is that they regurgitate whatever the DNC or WH tells them to say (their talking points). The lame-stream media has filled its ranks with liberals to a degree that they are unaware just how biased they have become. They have no concept of what journalistic standards are!
JOURNALISM IS DEAD! TEETS UP! IS NO MORE! KICKED THE BUCKET! CEASED TO EXIST!
That is why Fox News is so successful. People know that Fox does the hard, extra work of triple-sourcing and fact-checking, and that Fox presents BOTH sides of an issue. Granted, the hosts are primarily conservative, so there is a clear conservative slant, but, America is a RIGHT-OF-CENTER nation! FOX IS AMERICA!
Bless AlGore’s heart…
Report Post »In the waning days of lame-stream msm when their numbers are plummeting as they fight for market share of the minority – the uber-liberal socialist democrat people that HATE truth and HATE facts, but prefer the VILE rants & VITRIOL of rachel maddcow & jon stewart – they consume their news & political knowledge from COMEDIANS. Now, AlGore is starting a new lame-stream to further split the market!
THANKS!, Al Gore.
Of course, it is doomed to go the way of Air America – AlGore’s radio #FAIL! And global warming – AlGore’s carbon-credit
Pujols
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 9:14amThis Man? is an ASS-CLOWN.
Report Post »veruca salt
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 9:32amSo the impact Stewart has is too great for him to be able to say “I’m a comedian first”? Sounds like another couple cop-out statements made by our favorite Mormon, Mr. Beck:
“I could give a flying crap about the political process. We’re an entertainment company”
or
“I’m a rodeo clown. It takes great skill”
Report Post »beckNcall
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 9:43amStewart clearly admits he is a liberal, there is no centrist admission in that. He may be funny to some but to many viewers he is the only NEWS they watch.
Report Post »cosette
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 9:45amHey “Sheep” My sister is an ex republican. She switched when her son “came out of the closet”. Nuff said!
Report Post »MONICNE
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 9:57amAmazing to see the hateful Jew baiting and irrational “lamestream media” conspiracy slaves inject themselves into a debate about a Comedy Central actor.
Hollywood has made Trillions by being entertaining overall (rather than political). Atlas Shrugged Part 1 is a disappointing investment because it was not very entertaining.
FACT.
Report Post »Itchee Dryback
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 10:02amStewart is obviously delusional.
Report Post »hypnos
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 10:10amHe is definitely more a centrist than that tool bill maher. I think Stewart is a very clever comedian and I agree he hits both sides of the political spectrum. However, I think his liberal bias is very smartly intertwined in his comedy. I have seen him say disparaging remarks about conservatives . However when the left does something stupid it can be downplayed. I find he and steven Colbert very funny and clever because they are not mean spirited on a regular basis like Bill Maher is. He is a vile hack.
Report Post »middleclassprophet
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 10:42amIf you baggers have such a problem with Jon Stewart and his incredible ability to skewer you, and what you “stand” for on a daily basis, I have one solution.
Stop giving him material.
Report Post »Bear
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 11:18amHe is no Centrist,,,most of his jokes about Republicans are slams,,,and his guests and audience are all applauds for the Radical Left and their comments that he invites on the show compared to the token conservative that might have a book out at the time! Like every one else the tone of the questions change with a conservative guest,,blah,blah,blah! A Fox has never said their commentators are not Conservative,,,but the news they report is fair and balanced,,and you can prove this, you will hear sides of a story from Fox that the other networks won’t touch! And as for Hollywood not being Activists,,,thats just a Lie Jony! Michael More and the like have free reign! And it isn’t 50/50 with the kinda movies they put out,,,there always has to be a global warming message or how whites are racist or women lib or aids statements mead so don’t give us that sHiTZ! I used to have some respect for you,,,but if you will sit there and flat out lie about the Bias in the media and Hollywood and only be able to lift your finger and point it at Fox as bias,,,then you are a Stupid,Liberal,Hippie,Moron,A$$!
Report Post »JRook
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 11:30amFox is clearly an ideological driven “media” outlet for an agenda favored by the wealthy individuals and corporations packaged as a conservative or Republican agenda. It has never been and never will be “Fair and Balanced” in its approach and represents the failure of Americans to demand and received news from a free and unbiased press.
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 11:41amJon reminds me of something you might find on a trail after a pig has been walking there.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 11:44amIn order to be a comedian, you have to be funny. I don’t find him funny at all. Name-calling and making fun of other people, which seems to be the model these days, is not funny.
Report Post »Remember, Glenn saying that the funnier things are funny, because they have that grain of truth in them? Jon Stewart does not have that, nor understands that. Just because he has an audience, that laughs when the laugh sign comes on, and claps when the applause sign lights up, doesn’t make him funny. Neither do shows with laugh-tracks.
altops
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 12:04pmHe refused in writing to have conservatives pundits on his show, what are you smoking?
Report Post »NuffSaid
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 12:09pmJon Stewart’s funny, Vinny the Chin was funny. Mao and A Wiener were both funny. Ex_ How to you measure stuff?
Report Post »VegasGuy
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 12:53pmChris Wallace needs to learn you cannot argue logic with a liberal. A liberal’s world is defined by feelings. Every problem and solution is based on feelings. A liberal’s mind does not apply logic to problems and solutions. Any attempt to make a logical argument will not make sense to a liberal because the logic gets passed through a feelings-filter. What remains after passing through the filter is interpreted as a heartless solution with no compassion.
Report Post »WAKEUPFOOLS
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 1:01pmwhen jon was asked if the NY times was projecting a libral agenda or point of view he was lieing when he answered no you can tell by him looking away instead of looking cris in the eyes. his whole interview seem to come off as a lie
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 2:03pmOnly someone so far over the edge left could even see steward as centrist. Sorta like an astronaut talking about how close to sea level a man standing on top of Everest would be.
Report Post »1911HeadBanger
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 2:29pmYou‘d have to be a complete dumbass to not see that he’s an Obama Cheerleader and he directs his comic “attacks” on conservatives and those he opposes. His comedy is a cover for his angry liberal rants.
Report Post »WTH
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 2:39pmStewart’s producers have shown biased by purposely not booking conservative pundits (confirmed by an email) on his show. This alone would make him far from a centrist and when he calls himself a liberal many times over it seem to cement that as fact. He should stick to jokes. I thought he was smarter than that to not see the lamestream media biased. He might not be able to say anything to protect his liberal credibility. Libs always say “you don’t get it” when there whole schtick is quite a very simple and shallow concept. We “get it” and just don’t want any part of it.
Stewart‘s quote about how Fox’s viewers are by far the least informed has been proven wrong and debunked. Citing a bogus study that didn’t follow any type of protocal and claiming it to be fact shows his ignorance. The real danger are these demolibersocialcommies who think they are a lot smarter than they really are. Their party banks on this arrogance to help spread their vile drivel.
Report Post »Conservitive and Proud
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 3:15pmWhen you are influencing young minds by idiolistic commentary, you are not just a “Comedian” centrist? Have you ever heard him?
PS, any one who slams Sarah Palin and attacks many other conservatives is a liar and a cheat.
Report Post »kelly
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 5:31pmHow anybody could think this man is not a liberal is beyond me. His intent from day one of his show was to be an extension of Hollywood ridiculing anything and anyone not on within the ranks of the far left.
He‘ll tell anybody who wants to know that Hollywood isn’t biased either. Michael Savage says that liberalism is a mental disorder, and I couldn’t agree more.
Too, what on earth has he to offer? He certainly isn’t funny.
Report Post »DTOM_Jericho (escaped PA)
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 5:48pm@MIDDLECLASSPROPHET
Report Post »You realize by calling non-left people baggers you are insulting yourself right? I mean if they are the baggers and they oppose you, that would make you the baggee by default. I actually agree with you though… you suck b***s.
HellPhish89
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 5:57pmlol stewart is not a centrist
Report Post »Private-Consultant
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 6:14pmLies and 1/2 truths WAKE UP !
Report Post »Balladeer
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 7:01pmSimple jon steewart is a centrist because a socialist like exreplisheep SAYS he is….They are the chosen ones the Master Race…they don’t NEED to give facts THEY state something is…it simply is
Report Post »Rational Thoughts
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 7:14pmIf this sanctimonious, intolerant bigot is representative of the “Center” then the Republic is lost!
Report Post »freeus
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 2:54amBoth you and Stewart are out of touch.
Report Post »longhorn mama
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 4:00amFox might have a conservative bias but not in their straight news portions. What Stewart fails to acknowledge is the MSM is liberally biased. Fox is “activist” while other networks are merely “lazy and sensationalistic”?!? Stewart has a log in his eye while mocking the speck in others’. It must be the “soup he is swimming in”. And his citing of “every poll” demonstrates that Fox viewers are the least informed is laughably wrong. The questions in the Maryland study were opinion based and false.
Report Post »Longshot35
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 4:30amStewart is obviously not a centrist even he said he is a Leftist. But I thought he did a good job in the interview. I don’t have a keejerk reaction to hate him because of his ideology. However I have noticed that in some instances those leaving comments rapidly grab the proverbial pitch forks and hot tar and feathers simply because someone disagrees with them.
I work with someone who, the moment you have even the slightest difference in opinion, responds by getting and raising her voice to the point of yelling. It is small minded and shows that the individual has a weakness in trying to argue their point. Know this: there are MANY conservatives that argue very eloquently our point of view.
Report Post »pompey
Posted on June 22, 2011 at 1:25pm….your the fascist socialist enemy of America…..
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