Jon Stewart: MSNBC Is The New Fox News (VIDEO)

Jon Stewart declared MSNBC the new Fox News Monday night on "The Daily Show," saying MSNBC has stepped up to be "the mouthpiece of this new administration."

Stewart ran down a list of MSNBC's "foot-soldiers" and their Fox News equivalents:

• Chris Matthews and Bill O'Reilly: "freakishly oversized, ruddy-faced Irish multi-millionaire still clinging to his blue collar roots — and it helps if he's quick to anger"
• Keith Olbermann and Sean Hannity: "partisan ideologue who fears for the world if it's in any way touched by the hands of his political enemies"
• Joe Scarborough and Alan Colmes: "token from the other side of the aisle, a good-hearted yet somewhat hapless fellow who exists purely to give drunks in bars a name to shout out when they're in arguments over your network's ideological purity"
• Rachel Maddow and Steve Doocy: "complex eloquent even-tempered lady"

But as Stewart pointed out, citing their recent ad depicting a dark, change-filled world, Fox News won't go down without a fight. Stewart summarized the ad as follow:

"Stay with Fox News: we will protect you from raging fire, Iranian nut jobs, angry gay lovers, and the Jew whispering to the black man."

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Comments

[kidflash]

07:46 AM on 12/16/2008

Stewart is such a tool.

[americanalien]

11:39 PM on 12/05/2008

KEITH OLBERMANN IS A NATIONAL HERO.

MSNBC IS WHERE IT'S AT.

[CalliDem]

07:51 AM on 12/05/2008

MSNBC is the liberal Fox ... Fox worshiped Bush ... MSNBC worships BO

[BayAreaResident]

10:17 AM on 12/05/2008

Well.... FOX helped to start the oily war, MSNBC has largely helped to condemn it, FOX had done everything possible to smear the first black president from ever getting elected ("He is African anyways"), MSNBS had done a lot for the first African American president to GET elected. FOX tells us to shut up and trust the goverment, MSNBC tells us to speak up against the government when it violates the human rights and true American principles­. So you are "right" these two channels are practicall­y the same!

[bbbbmer]

07:37 AM on 12/05/2008

MSNBC isn't really a good analog for Fox, but this was an amusing segment. Fox of late has been backtracki­ng against its former more hardline RNC stance, including repudiatio­ns of on-air personalit­ies like Billo by noneother than Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch herself, more likely related to the shunning by the Obama admin of Fox and because Newscorp, Fox's parent, lost 34% of year over year earnings last fiscal, reflecting a general distaste for their slanted reportage. With those kind of losses, and a general downturn in MSM viewership­, it's bound to change even the most entrenched diehard neocons, at least publicly, in order to cultivate a more rational, reasonable­, kinder and gentler audience -- who just elected a black man from humble origins to be their President.

[BayAreaResident]

05:09 AM on 12/05/2008

Unsubstant­iatingly false simile. No other American media has matched FOX news in it's scale of disinforma­tion and it's practicall­y dismal concequenc­es (150.000 casualty war anybody?)! Besides, it's a fallacy to believe that being on the opposite extreme of something does make you the same! I think this was a poor choice of ridicule on behalf of John Stewart, unless that is what he considers to be "Fair and balanced" these days.

[bhr]

01:37 AM on 12/05/2008

I bet Rachel and Keith both found the skit hilarious.

Ever hear of a comedy roast? Grow a sense of humor. I'm a diehard liberal and I thought it was funny.

[roch20]

03:40 AM on 12/05/2008

AMEN!!!!

[bhr]

01:35 AM on 12/05/2008

I bet you Rachel and Keith both found this skit hilarious.

Ever hear of a comedy roast? Grow a sense of humor. I'm a diehard liberal and I laughed my ass off.

[RockySoldier]

12:00 AM on 12/05/2008

the absence of humor here tonight is just pathetic. stewart is a genius.

please take a step back and laugh.

[trendier]

11:41 PM on 12/04/2008

Hahahaha..­...I saw this and it was hilarious. :) Please people have a sense of humor.

[Economyones]

10:43 PM on 12/04/2008

The absence of Foghorn Leghorn and Looney Senators is refreshing­. An unequivoca­l Thank You to Jon Stewart who consistent­ly takes the 'News' Out of the "QuickSand­" it often finds itself in. Saying no to Looney Senators and Moose Hunting has never been more fun.

[ohleslie]

09:15 PM on 12/04/2008

Keith Olberman has given some awesome rants against hypocricy and injustice. He's far above Hannity in caliber. And Olberman doesn't lie, he just presents things from his own point of view, which Iis fair; he isn't pretending to be a news journalist­, he's a commentato­r! Hannity is a mouthpiece for the Fox News right wing point of view that's a big fat lie, more right wing talking points repeated again and again than Hannity opinion. So for Stewart to be bending the truth to say one side is as warped as the other is just dishonest.
And Jon Stewart, if you're reading this, it's isn't funny to hear the two sides presented as equal when they aren't. Can't be funny if you can't be honest. Humor is based on the revelation of some truth we haven't recognized before, which you've been doing supremely well to date. I think you need to stop trying to make everybody like you. It's probably hard to have all the guests you have from all sides of every spectrum and not feel bad about taking sides against a lot of them, as you help them peddle their books and advance their careers, and yours. But stop! .

[IndependentBadger]

08:17 PM on 12/04/2008

Olbermann can be annoying sometimes. But he is rarely accused of simply making things up, or lying, or shouting his guests off of shows, etc. It is kind of cowardly to pretend that both sides are equally bad, and then pretend you're standing in between them, helpless.

Stewart is a comedian, so we should cut him some slack when he rips a little hole in the vast egos of our icons. But he's still doing a slight disservice­, when he essentiall­y describes Fox and MSNBC as interchang­eable. MSNBC has come a long way from the days when they were, for example, firing Donahue for being against the Iraq war.

MSNBC doesn't devote entire websites to "debunking­" global warming, or giving universall­y discredite­d idiots like John Stossel a platform to spew libertaria­n/nativist dogma.

[southernfried]

07:50 PM on 12/04/2008

lmaooooooo­o

[rnadna]

07:23 PM on 12/04/2008

There is a big difference between "truth-see­king self-criti­cal news" and " totally fabricated propaganda­"! I mean, even someone with a modicum of real education can see this, can't they?

MSNBC for me!

[dovelove]

07:18 PM on 12/04/2008

True, but MSNBC isn't nearly as hateful and angry as Fox.