"Daily Show" On Coverage Of Obama: Fox News Stocking Up On Holy Water And Garlic (VIDEO)

Jon Stewart looked at the coverage of Obama's 100th day speech last night, showing Sean Hannity's terrifying opening montage and saying "apparently Fox is stocking up on holy water and garlic."

Stewart didn't just go after Fox, but MSNBC as well, mocking their effusive love for the president, and offering other glowing comparisons that Chris Matthews may use in the future. He noted that "MSNBC [went] with love tinged with disappointment, Fox [went] with fear tinged with contempt," leaving the field wide open for CNN. Unfortunately they dropped the ball "officially becoming prisoners of their own technology."


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[debs12]

Serious News please for serious times...ahaha...hey!! watch this seriously cool obama video i found on youtube..very cute!!!
http://effinfunny.com/the-effin-news/inauguration-edition
http://effinfunny.com/the-effin-news/debates-and-bailouts

[jalowe1957]

Now why do you think that every time a Fox News anchor opens his or her mouth, their I.Q. drops 90 points and their SATs even lower?

Fox News is good, but only if one has both delusions of grandeur and paranoia mixed together.

[Pleneras]

Cable news is officially Cable entertainment media. They are the ones who are making a big thing out of nothing. The media is sickening. The things they'll do to keep the ratings President Obama gave them during the primary. Don't these people have any integrity?

[Acidic]

I wonder the same thing.

[Haitiana4Obama]

My jaw literally dropped when the opening (Omen-like) theme music came on, I couldn't believe the audacity of Hannity...the brazeness if you will. Jon is so good at making them look tike the idiots they are. I think he deserves an hour long spot on MSNB, maybe then they might have some serious hope.

[Notawingnut]

I watched the whole thing on Hannity's show, and if you haven't been paying attention to politics (reality), you'd swear we were being governed by Satan. If they showed some guy in Afghanistan that clip, he'd strap a bomb on himself to stop the evil infidels. Hannity is effectively the blacksmith of the republican party. He hammers and hammers away at a piece of metal (his viewers) until it either breaks (and stops watching) or becomes so hardened they only know evil (his perpetual audience). He takes a story about a marathon runner that runs for charity and focuses on the running shoes that get torn up in the process. "How could this evil cyborg runner do that to those poor defenseless nikes?"

[Acidic]

Very well said, love the blacksmith analogy.

[LouiseM]

i didn't believe that Hannity would really use the theme music for the Anti-Christ Damien from "The Omen" until I went and saw the full original clip. Yes, "O Fortuna," young Damien's theme, to illustrate Obama's first 100 days! What's next, "Ave Satanis"? Who in Hell does Hannity think he's speaking to - folks who literally believe in the End Times?

Fox News jumped the shark with this one. Anyone who is rational will not give them any credibility. I know Murdoch must believe that most Americans are clueless irrational uneducated dolts, but talk about your niche marketing! "We're going to advertise to all the folks who believe Obama is a socialist AND the Anti-Christ!"

There are probably more snuff dippers in America than people that would take this stuff seriously. How much money must Fox be losing? Maybe they are like Limbaugh, whose "EIB Network" is literally given away free to small radio stations all over the country - which is why it's carried everywhere.

Pathetic, literally pathetic.

[useruser1]

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[Forest]

Serious News please for serious times.

[Katrina89]

If you take a look at the top of the page, it says "Comedy 23/6"......the funny stuff. Also at the top of your page is "Politics".....the serious stuff.

[WaterRalegh]

Stewart is usually a dependable type and we are all aware that he is an opponent of the repubs. They are the truly nasty ones, not Stewart. Rather, let us focus on that hateful Fox news. Nasty stuff, that! Well, maybe Stewart was not at his best, but no one is perfect all of the time. I can forgive the guy a little slip up or two. No biggie.

[gelb]

hah, hannity's license plate would be a "vannity" one...

[TwentyCharactersLong]

Did Fox really use "O Fortuna"?

[coltraning]

I have been a big fan of Stewart's for a long time, but lately he is doing the intellectually very lazy Maureen Dowd trick also played by the NY Times of assuming that because two networks have opposing ideologies, they are equally ludicrous. Ultimately it is the "well both Mr Hitler and the Jews are being unreasonable in their positions on the concentration camps" type of thinking that folks think is "balanced". Olbermann and Maddow have both been harshly critical of Obama lately, and they certainly don't resort to the screaming, analogies to Hitler and Stalin, faux tea parties and the tran wreck side show that is BeckHannityO
Reilly, etc...one station has become a partisan mouthpiece for a party or more precisely, the Limbaugh wing of the party. While MSNBC is left-leaning, there is a false, smirky giggly and easy/lazy comedy choice in Stewart's doing the comedic equivalent of a pox on both their houses. I do understand. It is hard as hell to come up with fresh comedy every night, and they still hit more than they miss. However, their current stable of correspondents is weak, and I think they have become somewhat stale and predictable at times.

[KillgoreTrout43]

Each to his own.

[thebirdstheword]

His own each to.

[david in austin]

Proof positive that Godwin's Law is alive and well.

[solopico]

"Olbermann and Maddow have both been harshly critical of Obama lately"

The ONLY reason either of these two has been critical of Obama is because he is not forcing the torture issue, which for the good of the nation needs to become a non-issue quickly.

I could point to the fact that Hannity complimented Obama for getting his kids a dog, if we want to go down the path of the ridiculous.

Sure, Hannity is critical of Obama - that's his opinion, and he makes a good living at it. Calling Hannity, O'Reilly, and Beck a "train wreck side show" is simply displaying the fact that you are intensely partisan and can't handle some of the truth about your own ideology.

If you actually watched the clip Hannity had on his show, it was all based in fact. Sure the music was over the top - but again, he's making his living at this, and it is an opinion show. At least when you watch these shows on Fox they let you know you are watching an opinion show, as opposed to Olbermann qho calls his show a "news hour."

[destruct1]

aww...poor stewie...

[IcedTee63]

Stewart agains pokes the rest of the media right in the eye. This is why his show has almost replaced regular news!

[white mende man]

Not News just talking heads expressing their opinions, better to just get the raw format from the AP and do out our own deductions and analysis.

[MideastDove]

Yes, actual news is the "product" of the PR firms of the various public/political agencies. Pentagon, CIA, UN, AIPAC, etc.

[Durango]

Right, the 24 Hour 'News' stations are 24 hour opinion channels.

I happen to appreciate Olberman, because he gives opinions not previously seen. But as for the rest of the talking heads . . . a vast wasteland.

[lentinelia]

Unfortunately, AP is 85% spin.
So is Reuters.

[KillgoreTrout43]

"do out?"

[valkyrie607]

It seems to go over people's heads that while Stewart takes many a potshot at politicians, media satire is his true bread and butter.

[Durango]

it continues to be and endless mine of material.

While Stewart has the best wrtting team in the business, along with Colbert, the stupidty of the American media makes their job simple.

Not easy, necessarily. But there is so much material waiting to be mined, it is simple.

[KillgoreTrout43]

"and endless mine....?"

[Frogfoot]

Especially more truth in finally naming Harry Truman as a war criminal... too bad he didn't have the guts to stand by it. Turns out he's just another wus.

[StJames]

Truman was NOT a war criminal. That you would value American lives as cheaply as the Japanese valued the lives of their own citizens shows your moral compass is a bit skewered.

[phlashba]

Are you suggesting that American lives have a different value than other human lives? Please explain.

[Montgriz]

uh, Americans have little regard for the lives as any other nation...we are the most warlike people on the planet by far......and have been since our rich classes discovered there is gold in military adventureism...

[KillgoreTrout43]

Who is? Who is "he?"

[adamsmith3]

Excuse me, but perhaps you should put yourself in the position of the commander in chief during WWII. We have just ended a hor.rendous campaign in Europe and the one in the Pacific seems like it could keep going without end in sight because Tojo did not operate in rational terms of self-preservation, but was beholden to a per.verted and selfish sense of "honor." The dropping of those two bom.bs is ter.rible to think about and obviously the moral.ity of it is very debatable. There are good people on both sides of the debate. But Truman wanted a dev.astating war to be over with, even if that meant deciding that the lives of American sol.diers were more important than those of Japanese civilians. He could have decided not to, and he'd be remembered as the President that let hundreds more thousands of our sold.iers di.e in a dragged out Pacific campaign that lasted a year of two longer. You want to point your finger at d.ead w.ar cri.minals, then point it at Emperor Tojo. What Stewart said was exactly as he described it......stu.pid. He sounded like a 19 year old kid on Hu.ffP.o and he knew how stu.pid it sounded the moment he said it. Good for him for apologizing.

[Montgriz]

Nice spin...that is the accepted and common viewpoint..trouble is, it is wrong....the war in Japan was dramatically spinning down....the abomb was a warning to Russia....

[wltdnfaded]

OMG, could you be any more pathetic? You gotta pick on TRUMAN now?

[Lowden]

Doing good satire is a tough job to get right (no pun intended). Satire is an attempt to showcase the vices, follies, supidities, abuses, etc, of an individual, group, system, etc, and hold them up to redicule and contempt. Whether one agrees or disagrees with Jon Stewart, he does his job very well. When he notes that, "Fox is stocking up on holy water and garlic," it recalls the time Doonesbury had Nixon (then under Watergate), in lou of holy water and garlic, building a 'Berlin' type wall around the White House.
Fox News has never really mastered satire (or for that matter honest news reporting let alone actual journalism). Instead they have reverted to the classic mode of any facist directed organization i.e. cynicism, half-turths, and fear mongering. This makes them an easy target, and rightfully so, for the journalistic, satire loaded Jon Stewart's of the world.

[MichaelMcKLA]

Yep, well stated.

[CeeCee]

Yes. that about cover is.

[CeeCee]

Ouch. I hate making typos.
Let me say it again:

Yes. that about covers it.

[Roses]

Very good comment.
I think that satire and irony are the exact antidote to fear and powerlessness, so Fox would have a real hard time with that sort of humor since their "news" is directed to elicit fear and victimhood.
Really, think about it. You can't feel fear and also "get" satire. Fear does not exist when one sees the absurd.

[KillgoreTrout43]

Republicans don't have the capacity to understand satire. They are too rigid in their thinking.

[LemonMeringue]

There is more truth in Jon Stewart's comedy and satire than there is on any television news station.