Stewart Blasts Media Coverage Of Debates, "Gloves Off" Politics, And The "Race Card"

Last night on "A Daily Show," Jon Stewart took the media to task for over-hyping "gloves off" politics. In particular, he blasted his one of his favorite targets, Chris Matthews (about 1:30 in), for dramatizing Tuesday night's debate with phrases like "let's talk fight talk" and "will there be an upper cut?" But, as he shows, CNN, Fox, and about a year's worth of commentators have been using the "gloves off" terminology to describe the Clinton-Obama race:

Of course, "gloves off" isn't the only media trope Stewart blasted last night. He also lambasted the media's reliance on the "race card" storyline playing out in the Democratic primary:

Comments

[Mumbleboy]

As much as I enjoy seeing Jon tear up the media and as much as they deserve the pain he causes, I think the bigger story from that episode is the interview with Jonah Goldberg, the author of that book on liberal fascism, that went on for 18 or so minutes. They only aired about 5 minutes of it. It was so cut up the viewer had a real tough time getting out much of it. Let's get a transcript or full video clip for it.

[tfred]

SCAB, SCAB, SCABBITY, SCAB SCAB SCAB.

[undrgrndgirl]

good on ya, john...

[nunzia]

I Love you, Jon Stewart!

[YankeeCanuck]

Thank heaven for Jon Stewart.
It is a pathetic state of affairs when a COMEDIAN is the lone voice of sanity reporting on our political scene.

[Bulbul]

It is the fear of getting on the bad book of Jon Stewart, got Mathews apologise today

[degjack]

You call them on it, Jon! Do it every time, my man. We the people, ALL OF US, should cut the media no slack whatsoever! --NOT ONE IOTA.
Call them on their failures every time, demand they produce honest, unvarnished, unibased news, and demand fairness. They are a callous and lazy bunch. They do not have the people's or the nation's interests at heart. I say give 'em hell!

[mpgarr]

God--how did things get so messed up??? Sure the Bush administration has been a major hose up-but the way the media is--are those problems really any worse than the sorry state of the media??? We have had bad presidents and their failed presidencies in the past-but we also had some decent media--it seems our national media is in a sorrier state than is our government!!!

[emsique]

Jon Stewart is just about the only real media watchdog on TV. It is amazing just how out of hand and idiotic the media has been in the last couple of months with him gone. Maybe with him calling on their shit, they'll straighten up.

[KRANKY]

Brian Williams is a whore and Russert is the fat whore with bad makeup.
Tweety Matthews=Whore.
Chris Wallace= cross dressing hotel hag.
Charlie Gibson= necrophiliac whore.
Judy Woofwoof= bag over head $10 call girl.
Katie Couric= cheerleader slut.

Maybe we should call them PORNDITS!

[AnninCA]

He nailed it again.

[Grulg]

YOUR MIKE IS ON!!!!! oh that's a killer.

[DontSpin]

hehehe... he's a genius.

[sawdustinhershoes]

jon rules

[RedForman]

Does anyone seem to remember there is a Writers Strike going on. All you libs were so quick to jump all over Leno when he crossed, but you worship Stewart.

Such hypocrites.

By the way, the Directors all ready reached a deal with the studios.

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