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Jon Stewart: 'Did the President Just Quit?'

'Daily Show' host not impressed by Obama's speech

(Newser) - Barack Obama’s debt ceiling speech didn’t exactly reassure Jon Stewart. After playing a clip in which Obama told viewers to call their congressmen on the Daily Show last night, Stewart gave the camera a shocked look. “Did the president just quit?” he asked. “I mean seriously,...

Jon Stewart: Wendi Smacks Down, Rupert Nods Off

In fact, 'doddering' Murdoch may have won sympathy, say other observers

(Newser) - Wendi Deng came off as having "Chuck Norris-esque hand speed" yesterday while defending her hubby from a pie-thrower, but Rupert Murdoch ... not so much, chortles Jon Stewart . In fact, the 80-year-old publisher is seen nodding off in the middle of his grilling by a parliament committee on the News ...

Stewart: Mitch McConnell 'Ruins Magic'

Daily Show host weighs in on debt ceiling talks

(Newser) - Jon Stewart offered a fairly hilarious rundown of the debt ceiling negotiations on the Daily Show last night, starting with the stakes: “If we don’t raise the debt ceiling by Aug. 2, man will be sentenced to an eternity of licking our own pets' genitals,” he declared....

Stewart on NotW: At Least We're Not England!

'Oh my god, my balls just crawled back up into my body,' Stewart moans

(Newser) - Jon Stewart was depressed when he returned to the Daily Show after vacation to find the US "broke, unemployed, endlessly deployed." Fortunately, correspondent John Oliver was there to cheer him up—by showing him Britain is worse off. Stewart got progressively more nauseous as he heard about how...

Stewart Rejoices at Halperin's D**k Comment

It was 'maybe one of the greatest things I've ever seen in my life'

(Newser) - Mark Halperin was lambasted by MSNBC and the White House after his headline-making comment yesterday on Morning Joe—but not by Jon Stewart. The Daily Show host called the incident "maybe one of the greatest things I've ever seen in my life. ... Mark Halperin, senior political analyst, editor-at-large...

Jon Stewart: Fox News a Bunch of 'Crybabies'
 Stewart Zings Fox 'Crybabies'  
Jun 28, 2011 8:16 AM CDT

Stewart Zings Fox 'Crybabies'

Fox is playing the victim, Daily Show host says

(Newser) - It's been more than a week since debating Chris Wallace on Fox News , but Jon Stewart is still hounding the network. Wallace now says he wishes he'd told Stewart that Fox told "the full story" instead of "other side of the story," prompting an incredulous...

Jon Stewart Lashes 'Lying Dynasty' Fox

Funnyman goes on attack after Politifact says he was wrong

(Newser) - The non-partisan fact-checkers at Politifact have rated his assertion that Fox News viewers are the most consistently misinformed viewers false , Jon Stewart acknowledged on the Daily Show last night. Some studies have shown Fox viewers to be the most misinformed but others have rated viewers of some specific Fox shows...

Stewart: Fox News Totally Edited My Interview

Cuts made Stewart seem crazy, and left out the best part

(Newser) - Jon Stewart appeared on Fox News for the third time on Sunday, and he kicked off last night's show by giving Comedy Central viewers the inside scoop. "One: I suggest you look at the unedited version online, where my emotional states don't seem to change so arbitrarily....

Jon Stewart: CNN a &#39;Lazy Susan of Stupid S***&#39;
 Jon Stewart: CNN a 
 'Lazy Susan of Stupid S***' 
GOP DEBATE REACTION
Jun 15, 2011 8:12 AM CDT

Jon Stewart: CNN a 'Lazy Susan of Stupid S***'

He also made fun of the GOP debate in there somewhere

(Newser) - Jon Stewart was not a big fan of how CNN handled the GOP debate—or as he termed it, “the world’s most patriotic game show.” The Daily Show host mocked John King’s goofy questions like “Elvis or Johnny Cash?” or “Deep dish or thin...

Stewart Aghast at Weiner's Daily Show Sex Fantasy

Host also confused by Weiner's apology to Bill Clinton

(Newser) - Jon Stewart was a little confused when he heard that Anthony Weiner apologized to Bill Clinton, officiant at his wedding and husband to his wife’s boss , after Weiner’s sexting scandal broke. "The congressman had a sex scandal and had to apologize to Bill Clinton? For what?” an...

Jon Stewart Literally Bleeds for Weiner

Funnyman injured during 'Daily Show' taping

(Newser) - Jon Stewart shed some real blood during a mock press conference last night on the Daily Show . The host, while offering his "resignation" for going too easy on his old friend Anthony Weiner, accidentally slashed his hand on some broken glass while making a margarita, reports Mediaite . He wasn'...

Jon Stewart: Weinergate 'Is Killing Me'

It's 'the weirdest f***ing story I've ever seen in my life,' host declares

(Newser) - Jon Stewart was predictably befuddled by the way Weinergate unraveled as he watched his old roommate get "Kanyed" by Andrew Breitbart at his own press conference yesterday, before finally coming clean and admitting the crotch shot in question was, yes, of Weiner's own crotch. "This is the...

Jon Stewart Lectures Weiner, Slow-Jam Style

'Daily Show' host tried to avoid the story, couldn't

(Newser) - Jon Stewart really tried not to get into the whole Weinergate thing last night—after all, the Congressman is one of his friends. But after the wiener photo in question "literally c*ckblocked" the story Stewart was trying to report about Mitt Romney, the Daily Show host gave in and...

Jon Stewart on Palin: Duh! She's Running

Daily Show host mocks bus tour

(Newser) - If you believe Sarah Palin's One Nation bus tour is something other than a prelude to a White House run, Jon Stewart has a bridge in Brooklyn he'd like to sell you. The Daily Show host, returning from hiatus, mocks the media's response to the Palin tour....

Stewart Smacks Ben Stein on Strauss-Kahn

Ben Stein? 'Ferris Bueller? Commercials for beach ball moisturizer?'

(Newser) - On last night’s Daily Show , Jon Stewart made short work of Ben Stein’s defense of Dominique Strauss-Kahn. The first tier of Stein’s argument: The alleged sex criminal is a “short, fat old man.” Said Stewart: “Yes, he’s not nearly in the kind of...

Stewart: Common Haters Huff 'Foxygen'

Glenn Beck: Obama is 'clearly anti-cop'

(Newser) - Jon Stewart again smacked Fox News for its fury over Common’s White House appearance, pointing out last night that only huffers of “Foxygen”—“the heady mix of partisan hackery, character assassination, and manufactured outrage”—would be bothered by the rapper’s performance. From there, Stewart...

Stewart Slams Fox Over Rapper Brouhaha ... Via Rap

No cops, Bushes hurt as Common performs at poetry night

(Newser) - Rapper Common was among several artists who performed at a poetry event at the White House last night—and he didn't shoot any cops. The rapper, whose presence at the event infuriated conservative pundits who seized upon some of his controversial lyrics, gently recited verses about love and the...

Jon Stewart: Why Is Bush Administration Taking All the Credit for Killing Osama bin Laden? (Daily Show Video)
 Why Is Bush Getting 
 Credit for bin Laden? 
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May 11, 2011 6:17 AM CDT

Why Is Bush Getting Credit for bin Laden?

Jon Stewart bemoans the Obama adminstration's response

(Newser) - Considering it was the Obama administration that managed to finally get Osama bin Laden, you'd think they'd be doing a media victory lap. But no, it's George W. Bush's cronies taking all the credit, Jon Stewart pointed out last night . "Eleven Bush administration officials thought...

Stewart: Trump Stealing ‘Crazy Oxygen’ From Palin

Rips Trump for comparing gay marriage to new-fangled golf putters

(Newser) - Donald Trump and Sarah Palin may be feeling a little sidelined by all the attention paid to this week's big story. But don't worry, guys: Jon Stewart hasn't forgotten about you. The funnyman—dismissing the first GOP debate as a "contest to determine once and for...

Jon Stewart: C'mon Guys, We Can Take Gruesome

Public needs to see Osama death photos, Daily Show host argues

(Newser) - The White House's decision not to release gruesome photos of Osama bin Laden's corpse doesn't make a lot of sense in a country that sees gaping head wounds every night on shows like Bones and CSI, Jon Stewart argues. "I’m all for healthy skepticism and...

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