Daily Show: The Rise and Fall of FOX News
By SilentPatriot Thursday Apr 10, 2008 11:00am
Eights months ago, I said that this was the best Daily Show clip I've seen in a while. Well, Thursday night Jon Stewart and Jon Oliver out-did themselves. I present to you...The Rise and Fall of FOX News.
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If there was ever a six minute video clip that could encapsulated what FOX has done to this country in the past 10+ years, this it it.
Update: John Amato:
Stewart: What Jon is the purpose of the documentary?
Oliver: Simply to judge the president before history gets it's chance.
FOX Host: From the beginning George W. Bush has been frequently ridiculed for his speaking style, now seven years later he's credited with some of the most eloquent and visionary speeches ever delivered by an American President.
Stewart: Who has credited him with that?
Oliver: That guy, just, just now, the guy on TV. You just saw him. You see, FOX News understands that a man's legacy is not defined not by what the man does, but by what people on television say he does about him.
There is no truer statement, "my friends." Then we get to see the treatment of Obama, Clinton and McCain through their warped eyes.
Oliver: In the years to come this fearless network will continue to say to America with confidence and absolute certainty. Go FOX yourself.
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OYE! Primerrrrrro! Pendejos!
I'm gonna have to send this to my cuz....
At least The Daily Show calls Faux News what it is. A fake News channel that is totally ludicrious that mental defects and emotionally dim-witted morons salivate at every salalious story.
The Daily Show is the best thing on TV
Just got put on Digg...spread the word here and there...this is must see!
Shouldn't they also do something like this about CNN? It's obvious to most people what Fox News does and how they do it, but CNN essentially does the same thing, but is worse, because they are much more subtle. 24 Hour "News" Channels in general have totally helped to ruin political dialog in this country. Fox News is a pretty easy target. If someone would take on CNN for what they do and do so well, then that would be something.
It would be great to be a college student majoring in Journalism 100 years from now and learn about how TDS changed the face of journalism.
Not they necessarily have beyond adding the comedy element, but man alive, NOBODY asks the questions and makes the obvious connections they do. Can this country be saved by comedy?
tehghey, is right. CNN is Faux News lite. I have practically given up on all news except C-span and Oberman. The rest are shills for big business.
O'Reilly was my favorite. He used the first four years of his show to incessantly bash either the Clintons or Jesse Jackson anyway he could ... some journalist.
Could you guys post the whole thing? ComedyCentral doesn't let people outside the country watch their videos. Licensing this, copyright that. Blah, blah.
Fox News is Dying- Take #10,002, aaaand.....action.
if propagandizing were virtuous fox would be Gods
Ha Ha. Go Fox yourself! Brilliant!
Okay, pardon the ignorant question, but how does a "digg" work?
Thanks in advance.
FoxNews bashing is great fun, but wasn't it The New York Times who gave us Judy "I never met a spooky WMD story I didn't want to write about with breathless exuberance" Miller, and isn't it MSNBC who gives us Chris "The musky scent of a real man like Fred Thompson sends shivers up my leg" Matthews? FoxNews is full of nonsense, but I submit that most "middle of the road" people discount everything they say, while even dedicated liberals are taken in by the nonsense at the Times, at the Post, on MSNBC, and on CNN.
I love John Stewart, but when's he going to take a critical look at Brian Williams, Wolf Blitzer, or Tim Russert?
Nailed it, nailed it, nailed it!
Ahhh...catharsis goes great with the first cup of coffee...
But the Daily Show totally sucks ass because they didn't use this segment to also go after CNN, MSNBC, Headline News, local newscasts, right wing radio, yo momma....
/snark
Fox Noise is all about making the female talent wear skirts to show off their legs, spinning news to make Democrats and liberals look bad, and letting neocon blowhards like Hannity have a "mainstream" forum when without Fox he would be relegated to the fringe of talk radio.
Oh, and Fox Noise also gives those sad sacks on "Fox & Friends" a job, despite how many times they've been wrong when trying to slime Democrats.
Bonkers Hussein @ 16:
They would have to devote a whole 30-minute episode to do that.
Someone should do a Jenny Craig intervention for Jabba the Hut Ailes. He looks like he's going to explode like Mr. Cresosote.
Get him a bucket.
-GSD
There it is: Posters who are quick to cite the shortcomings -- and they certainly have them -- of other networks to soften Fox's image and reputation.
No network is more partisan or violates the tenets of journalism ON A DAILY BASIS than Fox News. They don't come close. Also, when is CNN and MSNBC going to balance their Conservative hosts and commentators with Liberal ones. Where's the Liberal Glenn Beck to counter him for example?
Sums it up quite nicely.
What's most striking about this piece is the absolute hypocrisy that typifies Fox "News"...
When Bill Clinton was in office they questioned everything he did...but during "Dubya"'s term they called anyone who dared to to question him (Glenn Greenwald, Keith Olbermann, et al.) "smearing" or "supporting terrorism" or both.
it is a mistake to view fox as a seperate media entity and ascribe to it more power than it deserves. much of it's audience is there to get image reinforcement or a synopsis of crap they heard on talk radio earlier in the day or week. it is the end result of the groundwork talk radio does with its 50-70MIL audience.
Fox would not be half as effective as it is if it did not feed off the prechewed uncontested repetition that the talk radio monopoly gives it. fox news and the modern neocons would not have been able to take over and now destroy the republican party if not for reagan killing the Fairness Doctrine 20 years ago.
The best part was the juxtaposition of the 90s' Fox News dolts crying about expansion of executive power in a Clinton administration... HA HA HA!!
Bluestater @ 14:
Basically you vote for what you think is newsworthy, and then assuming you dont get censored, the mosted voted on news stories of the day go on Diggs main page.
danger hussein al-malak @ 24:
"Sept. 11th changed everything" ~ I'm sure is their reasoning.
What is really humiliating for other news shoes and channels is that TDS staff actually does research. If a politician or pundit makes a claim, they spend time looking through other speeches and show the contrast on air. Regular channels are to effin' lazy to take the time or trouble--they just take people at their word, and don't bother to fact check. They ought to be groveling and asking TDS staff for a refresher course on journalism.
GSD @ 19:
It's wafer thin!
Joel @ 22:
And if Obama is elected president we will see if Fox Noise will do a 180-degree turn from how they treated Junior.
Do you think O'liely's head will explode? Poor Billo, Not only is he almost always on the "Worst Person in the World" list, he's always being lampooned by comics. It almost brings a tears to my eyes!
P.D. @ 30:
O'Reilly is such a prima donna and superstar in his own mind that he probably likes the attention.
Thanks, Gary @ posting 25.
Where is abob with a C&P of Faux "ratings"?
Frybread your right. I wonder if they have enough room on the set for his enormous ego. But Billo looks a little peaked lately don't you think. I think the hate inside is finally eating away at him.
If you need a reason to like Obama maybe his stiff-arm of Fox would do it. I think the idea of NO access to the White House has Ailes and his pack of hyenas waking up with night sweats. Day after day of being scooped....LOL
The corporate media that perpetuates primitive capitalism is the enemy. Faux is just the worst of the bunch, but even more corruptive and deceptive are CNN, MSNBC, and others in print that give Americans brain rot and treat everyone like fools every day.
Let's not exactly bury Fox Propaganda.
First off, Conservatives, as proven by George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, Tom DeLay, Newton Gingrich, Trent Lott, and Bill Frist, etc., have always been lousy leaders. Management is not their strength nor will it ever be.
Instead, Conservative thrive on criticism, on back-bench bomb throwing, on mindless attack, on an unwillingness to negotiate or find common ground from which to unite and proceed forward. The Conservative mindset is one of constant war, of Michael Ledeen's "attack every decade just to throw someone up against a wall."
The Conservative abhors information and analysis and relies solely on barstool propaganda, blatant bias, personal greed, and ignorance. These are the reasons for the success of Faux News.
And that's why Faux News will be so potent should Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton wind up in the White House, having to clean up eight years of the mess created by Dick Cheney and his underling, George W. Bush, in Iraq, the U.S. economy, the current account deficit, the national debt, the national deficit, the national infrastructure, the military of burned-out soldiers and desert-damaged equipment, the health care system, and the absence of regulation in the SEC, FCC, FDA, and every other organization.
Fox and Roger "All That" Ailes will lose their first- and second-place standing at the White House and Department of Defense. No matter. Ailes and his underlings will simply do what they do best: criticize and stigmatize in the name of their own personal financial interests.
So let's just count rumors of the demise of Fox and Ailes to be greatly exaggerated.
Frybread @ 29:
Then they would come full circle...wouldn't they...?
P.D. @ 34:
Oh the hate and stress will continue to erode his health until he looks like Emperor Palpatine from Star Wars!
dennis @ 11:
Thanks for missing the point, once again.
Bluestater, what did you mean by this?
tehghey @ 6:
Anyone who ever witnessed Wolf Blitzer's monologue's would realize you are 100% correct.
Jon Stewart and the Daily Show are Brilliant...like a fine wine that ages perfectly. I watched this segment this morning while getting ready for work....and it set a perfect tone for my day. Bravo! Whatever will Fox do when their Bush boy is out of office? Perhaps learn the something about journalistic integrity.....no wait, that ship has sailed
As Jon put it in the now famous interview with *ucker Carlson. It's sad that people have to tune in to a comedy show to watch real news because they aren't getting it from Faux
The only reason Faux News has higher ratings IS because of their audience. A bunch of old people or pathetic loners who have nowhere to go on any given night. But don't dispair, the geezers will dye off eventually, which will leave them the loser bridgade. They can have them.
princess @ 11:
Who had 9:18 am for the obligatory hysterical reich-wing whining defense of faux?
dennis @ 11:
Not dying......people have caught on to their propaganda....ratings? Perhaps it's all the people online watching to point out their outright leanings.....OR there are a pile of REAL stupid people.
The brilliance of the Daily show is that they mostly just display clips of back-to-back contradiction and let
them speak for themselves.
Unfortunately I think we'll be waiting a long time for the fall of Faux News.
liberalHUSSEINmoderation @ 28:
I can't eat another thing. F*ck off!
David @ 41:
To quote the lying hypocrite Bill O'Reilly, "One can't justify bad behavior by pointing to other bad behavior".
Though O'Reilly would do well to heed the aforementioned advice he dispenses to guests who expose his hypocrisy, he is correct in a sense in that we shouldn't look at his competition to somehow give Fox News a pass -- "They all do it, so blah, blah, blah..." is not at play here. I was simply addressing what I started to notice here on the part of posters blurring Fox with CNN or MSNBC. Yes, the other networks fail us horribly also, but they are nowhere near Fox News in their partisanship, lying, spinning, and propagandizing.There is a HUGE chasm twixt Fox News and all the other networks. ...Fox News is a joke; they are a parody of themselves.
Dr. Acula @ 49:
If you guys keep promoting them, then yeah, Doc. Even us righties are getting tired of O'Reilly.
Mark @ 37:
Well put and dead on! :)
David @ 15:
He has done that many times. Jon doesnt play favorites everybody is game but you got to admit Faux noise sticks its neck way out there. If they would just lable themselves as comical satire news like the ONION then we could all just have a big laugh
Dr. Hussien Matt @ 46:
Oh my gosh. I'm leading you on and I just didn't realize it. I'm truly sorry.
dennis @ 11:
Just a reminder Dennis, The Colbert Report did win a Peabody award and despite his faulty memory O'reilly did not. I guess that means TCR is less of a fake news show than Fox.
Considering most of Academia is in the radical left wing camp I'm sure they will trash the President.. Maybe we will be able to get a fair and Balanced history of it his years
Do you get that feeling when you see people like Roger Ailes, Billo, Rush, etc., to just punch them in the face, without apparent reason, but when you know that there is a reason, you just would spit on them?
This fat fucker sure eats good, looks like he would eat his young---gooforgo--solo
chris @ 57:
Never actually attended a university have you Chris. Someone told you that nonsense about "Academia is in the radical left wing camp" so you believe it. Let me guess your source: Fox News?
Peter G @ 56:
Thanks. Trust me, if you ever watch Bill and Mary Katherine Ham do their segment on what's on the web, you quickly realize how much of a dinosaur this guy is. He's like, about 10 years away from a Dan Rather-type meltdown.
Stewart and his crew, along with Colbert are modern day Mark Twains, revealing the "gilded" nature of our times.
14All @ 27:
I wish it was a matter of laziness -- if it was, then the journalists responsible would be fired by bosses who deserve better. Having worked in both print and television media, I know that one of the key factors in skipping a lot of this research is that they're simply not given the time and resources to do proper background any more. People expect news right away, but the corporations running the media outlets are simultaneously cutting back staff and money. That means that someone working on one beat is probably putting in time on yet another beat (ie they're working behind the scenes on another show, or another part of the magazine) because doubling up is necessary.
Add to that the fact that some of these corporations have definite political / financial agendas, and you've got a recipe for shoddy, slanted journalism.
People shouldn't need any prodding to watch The Wire, but season five of the series deals with some of the things at work in this whole process.
chris @ 57:
No chris, they will state the facts. If it makes your beer buddy look bad, then maybe he should have been a better president.
Incidentally, I have no real faith that "Academia" will truly tell it like it is in either case. Our high school history books are full of mistakes, omissions and outright lies. It wouldn't surprise me if, many years from now, my at-the-moment-unborn child brings home a history book full of praise for the worst nitwit to ever squat in the Oval Office. So, hey! You may have your way; you'll be able to wander over to my porch, good neighbor that you will be, and scream, "Scoreboard!!!! Bush rules!!!" while flapping said history book in my face.
Bonkers Hussein @ 64:
What lies does the High School History Book contain?
chris @ 65:
Yeah, I knew as soon as I typed it you'd come back with that, chris. I really don't have time to list them for you as I chatting with you all during a break at work.
chris 1, bonkers 0
Good for you.
Again C&L, thank you for watching this SHIT PROGRAM so I don't have to. I became enraged years ago with the total hypocrisies of that so-called "news" channel and have not watched it since. By the way, I also do not buy any products from sponsors of that show. If you want a list of FOX "news" sponsors, you don't have to sit through the drivel, just go here: http://www.debone.com/boycottFoxNewsSponsors.html
Thruth like water eventrually finds it's out. That's why Foxaganda is tanking.
Bonkers Hussein @ 66:
Thanks for been man enough to admit you got got..........
Bonkers Hussein @ 66:
Since you're a little busy Bonkers I'll provide a little reading for Chris. Admittedly these howlers are from a popular civics text but it'll do to start with.
http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2008/04/religious_right_propaganda_in...
That report would be really funny if it weren't so true.
David @ 15:
Hardly. Most "middle of the road" people, unless they are die-hard moderates and political junkies, are too busy to devote the kind of time to political and media analysis that bloggers and blog-posters do. The average person out there still expects (not unfairly) for the media to digest and summarize information for them. S/he watches FUX and the rest of the channels for basic information, and is not parsing the words to discern truth from bullshit.
Actually, dedicated liberals are at pains to explain that the Times, Post, MSNBC and CNN are all full of junk and misinformation. That they are hardly the "liberal media" members of the right-wing noise machine like to call them. That's what sites like Media Matters and C&L do every day.
Are you under the impressionthis is news to us?
Yeah.
March 2, 2005.
July 12, 2004.
March 15, 2005,
Nov. 15, 2006.
Now, I know, those aren't in-depth focus-pieces on everything those people say, but don't pretend that other media figures are somehow immune to Daily Show criticism.
chris @ 65:
For a start, check out Lies My Teacher Told Me. (And don't assume it's uniformly liberal in its leanings.)
High school textbooks are full of misinformation and over-simplifications.
chris @ 69:
Chrissy, what could you possibly know about academia? You can't spell or write grammatically correct English. Home schooled?
The Jack in the Box near where I work runs Fox News on TV at all times. :( at least it's muted... They have another TV on the other side of the dining area, but it's set to some sports channel rather than a real news network. bah!
(Southern California)
Fox's "documentary" on Bush most certainly will become part of the historical record. Generations of students will marvel at the blatant lying that was allowed to pass as journalism.
Tim @ 75:
Huh. You're right. It's not just in Southern California either , it's in Virginia too. It's in the doctor's office, the airport, the health club, the pub and anywhere else I ever see cable news in a public place. I wonder why? I will inquire.
Wow....just wow... I'm practically speechless... The one thing that stands out? 'that guy', that guy on T.V. who puked out something about 'most elequent and visionary speeches ever delievered by an American President'... in reference to George W. Bush mutterings..... W.T.F???!!! THAT is the most delusional and asinine comment I never heard pulled out of some empty suits ass in prime time....ever.... Glad I missed it the first time.. I probably would have put my boot right thru the T.V. But then, I never have watched fox news so I guess I was never in any danger.. nor was my T.V.
Jesus, with this kind of shit excuse for news, its no wonder they are slowly crashing and burning. I can't wait till fox goes bankrupt........'Most elequent and visionary blah blah blah'...my ass!!! Christ that would be funny as hell if it wasn't such a disgusting attempt at revisionist BULLSHIT!!!! I'm tellin ya folks, they couldn't write this insanity in Hollywood in a million years and sell it as an alternative reality sci-fi series... Noone would believe it.. None of this shit if we weren't all living thru it......JD
how sad that the hardest hitting news is on comedy central. this was an excellent report and MSM should be ashamed.
If and when the USA ever rids itself of the festering slime that has overtaken Washington ?
A lot of the credit will be due to folks like John Stewart and Colbert who had the balls to put it on the line and fly in the face of the Reich wingers. They cant run and hide from video.
Off topic but the good Col here had a heart attack last Friday and im happy to report that i survived the wretched thing called Canadas universal health care system. OMG the humanity. Once i realized that it wasn't in fact the worst case of heartburn ever and got my butt to the ER i was treated , as usual , like gold. I believe i was in the ER less than three minutes before i was hooked up and on IVs and an ECG machine. Once i was stabilized i was moved into a private room in the Intensive/Cardiac Care Unit. Even the TV is free is that unit. I was later taken by ambulance to regional heart specialty hospital an hour away for an angiogram and later returned ,also at no further expense to myself. I am pretty sure at no time did my Doctors and Specialists ever have to phone some lackey at an insurance company to ok any aspect of my care. I had forgotten to renew my health card and was packing an expired one but that wasn't even mentioned. I felt good enough to hold a bedside seminar for some nursing students on the goodness of compassionate health care versus greed and profit driven go fuck yerself US style health care. They all promised to watch Sicko for me and absorb the inner meaning of it. Only real downside to it all is that ill have to be on about 300 bucks a month worth of meds that i dont have fully covered by benefits since my job left town,passed through US and stopped in Mexico. A social aide at hospital did help me to apply for a Provincial program to cover about 75% of that expense though too till i get firmly back on my feet. Sorry but i had to get that off my back but i truly do hate the reich wing spin and bullshit about universal health care and my Docs told me i have to live more stress free. It does feel good to get a little back from all the slightly higher taxes we pay here in Canada once in a while. With any luck ,no cigs and bacon , ill be around to see how all this Bushshit plays out in the long run. Im looking forward to seeing the Neos do the perp walk in their pretty orange jumpsuits. That alone is worth living for . Happy Masters Weekend to all .
Col Kilgore@80;
Best wishes for a speedy recovery.. Get well Colonel....JD
Hey Bluestater. I guess I'm just arguing that by claiming The NYT, The Post, MSNBC, and CNN are as bad or worse than Fox News, I am not giving Fox News a pass. Rather, I am urging us not to give The NYT, The Post, MSNBC and CNN a pass. I agree that Fox News is terrible. I'm just saying that these other, seemingly more reasonable media outlets, actually are not that reasonable and are also terrible. I'm am not saying that because other news orgs besides Fox News produce bad journalism, it is therefore ok to perform bad journalism. Bad journalism is never a good thing.
Necadawg, I honestly don't ever remember Jon Stewart skewering, say, MSNBC or CNN this way. Brian Williams has been a frequent guest on The Daily Show, lending his "gravitas" (oh, please) to the show. Tim Russert, Chris Matthews, and Wolf Blitzer also often have been guests, warmly received. Maybe I'm wrong. I'll sift through some of the archived clips.
tehghey @ 6:
Did you watch the whole episode? They ripped CNN at the top of the show for the hour+ coverage they did of the Olympic Torch's adventures in San Francisco. In fact, I think TDS rips on CNN more than Fox News, as Fox IS such an easy target that there's almost no point in covering it.
Here's something you won't see on Fox News ... This march took place in San Diego yesterday
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvNwfUsKG9g
I had taped last night's Daily Show and showed it to 2 people this afternoon who have never quite believed what I've been saying about FOX Noise. When they got done viewing it, they were:
1) laughing their asses off at how how amazingly funny it was
2) shaking their heads in disbelief because they FINALLY understood what I've been talking about for so long.
I think they've come over from the dark side now because of the Daily Show's irrefutable evidence.
Good work, Daily Show team!
Bluestater @ 9:
Some things never change.
m @ 10:
Huffington has the link here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/11/smackdown-the-emdaily-sho_n_961...
chaching @ 86:
Yes, I didn't mean to imply that he has let up on bashing either the Clintons or Jesse Jackson. He is just more clandestine and subtle about it today. He also has taken to use more proxies today versus his first few years when it came directly out of his mouth.
Beware of flags. Honestly! (The brainwashing started as soon as you could lift your head off the pillow.)
Leave it to TDS to expose those bastards so well! Well done!
Is anybody else having problems loading videos on the Daily Show website? Everytime I click it it says "play again"
PS 6 city governments have been found to be decreasing the times of traffic light yellows, so that the cameras can catch motorists running red lights. All this is done to increase revenue.
WOW.
http://www.leftlanenews.com/six-us-cities-tamper-with-traffic-cameras-fo...
Any further stories/blog items highlighting the contemptible idiocy of the GOP are, at this late date, really about the anemic performance of the opposition party; both it's officers and it's rank-and-file. You never tire of couching the right's success in sarcasm and failure's clothng and excuses anyone from concluding that the right succeeded. But it's not getting dick done.
Lazy liberals have done such a shitty job of getting any of Bush's scandals or treason to stick that the country is suceptible to a right-wing channel spoon-feeding a numb, ignorant population the idea that the Bush years not only weren't that bad, but were a raging success. Liberals are sadly content to bitch about this reality, instead of succesfully countering it.
You can hate it, but Fox News is a success, and has worked within a changing culture. Meanwhile Liberals passively consider thinking about maybe deciding about acting ...or not. I can't name a single liberal success in the last seven years. It's why I no longer identify with you. There might as well NOT be a Democratic Party/Liberal left/Progressive party. Bush could not have done all he's done without the corresponding complete failure of the opposition. So give yourselves a hand! You helped get us where we are.
Drew: Are you outside the US? Their video streaming service checks your geographical location to see if you're allowed to view the content. If you're not, it doesn't tell you...it just says "play again". Very frustrating.
GlobalH @ 93:
Do you know of a hack?
Ha, ha - I'd like to see anyone successfully spin the dumbass G W Bush into anything other than the dumbass he is.
Whoa.... Now, just hold on there just a minute herr Jasper; NOW its the liberals fault we've been saddled with this Bush shit for seven years...and counting? Now it's the liberals fault The Bush administration has set the world on fire and ruined our international reputation???? Well, now, thats real sneaky cute, but I ain't buyin...No deal dude! Not when until this year the legislative branch of this government has been in the control of rightwing neocons for well over ten years constantly pushing a bid-ness good and right all the time, social conscienceness and responsibility all bad in every instance... Pushing a rightwing no oversite of anything privatize everything agenda... The control of congress of which was paved by Gingrich's 94 bullshit... Not when the executive branch has worked night and day to co-opt the Judiciary and upper echelons of the justice department and the pentagon in pursuit of their quasi-fascist agenda.. Not with media ownership consolidated into fewer and fewer hands with the republican legislative branches blessing and collusion... Hands that support and encourage the neocon agenda of overtuning the constitution thru overt and covert means... As long as two or three rich white fucks can have a media monopoly.....
Naw.... This ain't the liberals fault.. The only thing the libs might be faulted for is the notion that this running the American government thing? Was ever about a level playing field and honest brokering of ideas. The libs were definitely punked out on that score by selfish assholes from the right who have been blowing propaganda smoke up everyones asses for 30 years! But then, so was the American public mister. We've all been spoonfed this line of trickledown bullshit and (name that rightwing idea) from the first day Reagan took office way back in 80...
I wonder Jasper Von whatever, do you blame native American indians for the fact that this nation is now built up and under the rule of decendants of Europeans because they just didn't kill enough settlers when they had the chance??? Maybe you blame the jews too for ending up in the ovens because they didn't rise up fast enough in the 30's and shut down Hitler...or maybe because they just didn't hold out long enough or kill enough kruats in the Warsaw getto??? Ohhh my, did I raise taboo subjects to you???? History has shown us that the American continent inhabited as it was by a more or less honorable native population that lived in harmony with nature but without the kinds of weapons Europeans had in those times ultimately didn't have a fair fight situation either... Neither did the jews in Germany after Hitlers propaganda machine blackballed them for every bad thing that came out of WWI and the Weimar republic days that Germans felt saddled with by 1933...
Neither of those two groups ever stood any real chance against what they faced any more than 'lib-ruls' today, ever had any real chance to have a fair fight about ideas to advance the nation in the environment the repubs fostered these last 30 years...Your cartoon blame game doesn't pass muster son... But thanks so much for trying to bullshit your way past reality... Nope, the plain and painful truth is George Bush, his administration, the Reagan generation of republicans, certain democrats who sold their souls for what amounts to 30 pieces of gold, and more than a few fortune 500 business execs and their international partners ALONE are to blame for this shit we find ourselves in today.
That liberals shout out the obvious at the top of their lungs only to be ignored by those actually holding power and the compliant media which they now own does not make liberals guilty or culpable for this catastrophe when they had no real power in the last ten to twenty years to actually effect any change.... Your post is just more attempts at revisionist bullshit that AIN'T GONNA FLY ANYMORE mister!!!!! JD
P.D. @ 8:
Obermann is a bigger shill than ANYone else. His whole schtick is to attack O'Reilly.
Mike Says:
The brilliance of the Daily show is that they mostly just display clips of back-to-back contradiction and let
them speak for themselves.
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Sadly, I do this for bible verses and it doesn't work. Even with the evidence shoved in front of them, it seems they pull a half-assed excuse out their bum to explain it away. Or just ignore me. Or throw a fit.
FOX, CNN, and all American news blow. BBC is the only news worth watching. They remind us that we don't live in a bubble called the USA and there is actually news going on around the world. Also Hollywood gossip is never news worthy, never. Keep it for the E-channel and TMZ. I do not care what A-list actor overdosed and who was at their funeral. Really when did this become news?
Drew @ 94:
You need a proxy based in the US. Haven't tried one of them myself, but check these out for some options:
http://www.oreilly.com/pub/h/4807
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/01/07/watch-hulu-videos-outside-of-the...
m @ 10:
Try the Canadian Comedy Network site. Full episodes.
sorry, forgot linkage:
http://www.thecomedynetwork.ca
David @ 15:
You miss the friggin point! You think Faux News is even in the same league as NBC, CBS or ABC? Hardly! Get real, these creeps on Faux are wired to the neocons, the have Bush and Cheney covered. This stuff can't be made up, they are so friggin biased!
I dearly love Fox News. Reading all these comments brings joy to my heart. Anything or anybody that can bring you idiot libs to the frothing mouth point is A-OK by me. You're soooo funny!
This all making me sick, physically sick.
Too much editting of the clip. How could you cut out the parts with the strained bicycle joke and trying to infiltrate News Corp. dressed as Lady Liberty?
The hypocrisy on display is simply overwhelming. Fox News viewers must be the most uncritical, unskeptical audience in the world. They will swallow anything.
"eloquent and visionary "
Only after ingesting LARGE, LARGER, LARGEST amounts of LSD, coke and Black Label....
davefromthe desert @ 97:
Yeah...attacks BOR's lies with the truth....next!
Tomasco @ 104:
Hmmmmm, did you enjoy sex with your father also?
Hey Ron. I'm afraid I don't think I missed the point. I just don't agree with it. I understand that you and other people think Fox News is worse than The NYT, The Post, MSNBC, and CNN, and I agree that in some ways it is. But Fox News doesn't have the reach of these other media outlets, and certainly not across the political spectrum the way these others do. It's kinda like the Washington Times. We liberals all know it's a very-conservative, almost-joke of a newspaper, but we rarely get all worked up about the nonsense they publish because we know it's a bit player with little influence.
In other words, when Fox News runs yet another puff piece about Bush, I don't think it has any real effect. (In general) people who think Bush is a tool don't watch Fox, and people who do watch Fox don't really need a puff piece because they already have crushes on Bush. But when The NYT ran those Judy Miller fantasies about aluminum tubes and Iraq's alleged nuke program, that helped change minds and helped get us into war. When Chris Matthews trashed Gore all through 1999 and 2000, that helped Bush get elected. And right now, while we chortle about how lame Fox is and look down our noses at its viewers, MSNBC has been busy trashing some of our Democratic candidates (Edwards & Clinton), is starting to trash another (Obama), and is burnishing the image of the Republican candidate (McCain, the "maverick" "warrior"). It might just get another Republican elected.
So...great. Bravo, Jon Stewart. You told an audience who already knows Fox is a joke, that Fox is a joke. What a bold stand.
P.D. @ 45:
Pathetic, lonely and old anti-social geezers!
Billo and Sean are their friends. While they are sitting in their chairs being "zombytized" with hatred and intollerance, their heroes at Faux are trying to take away their social security checks.
fwacbar @ 110:
Nope, but I did enjoy doing your wife and daughter.
Oh fuck, seriously. Can claim internet porn for the density of this clip? Oh shit, perhaps I broke a law or two to watch him come. Shit.
Nevertheless -- does anyone believe FOX news?
A fortune has been made off the fear and anger (subsequently blaming and judging) of others. People love to feel certain and righteous and if you throw in patriotism....well, you have a hit show!! From a money making point of view, Fox News has capitalized on human nature.
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