Jon Stewart Continues To Hammer Fox News For Obama Coverage: Calls Out Hannity For Unfair Editing, The Rest for Irresponsible Insinuation (VIDEO)

Last week Jon Stewart took on Fox News for their coverage of Obama's speech in Cairo calling their personalities "extremists" and saying, "What a torture it must be for such pretty people to see such ugly things."

Last night, Stewart continued to pound the cable network for biased insinuations, and showed a clip of Hannity editing Obama's words to unjustly make him sound like a 9/11 apologist. This practice, as our own Jason Linkins has pointed out, is not unique to Hannity, but endemic to Fox as a whole.

To keep things fair, Stewart also looked at the other big two cable networks: MSNBC and CNN. He mocked the former for mentioning Rush Limbaugh at every turn, and CNN for being desperate to win the social networking wars. (Note: That might not actually be a thing.)


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[vishnucoming]

NOW takes a stand against Letterman. The noose tightens around Letterman ...

http://www.now.org/issues/media/hall-of-shame/

[AndSoItGoes]

Think it is time we all appeal to the FBI & Dept of Justice to investigate and prosecute these people for libel, treason, hate crimes, and inciting violence.

[TexasNanna]

I think it is more the case of rubber necking a car wreck. Folks watch it out of morbid curiosity and to remind themselves how lucky they are to have Jon Stewart. BTW, I am a grandmother and will begin work on my doctorate in education with the 2010 cohort, so that kind of blows your theory, BS. My own father, who is in his 80's, is computer savvy and not a fan of Fox. Although I don't care for the F bomb being dropped so much or really don't see the sense in referring to some guy as a "douch" on The Daily Show, I prefer it over Fox News any day. Fox is more faux news than the Daily Show will ever be. They are evidence that our education system has been in trouble for a long, long time. I laugh along with Jon. I laugh at Fox.

[birdyspice]

the reason fox has such high ratings is because its average viewer is older and less internet savvy. younger, more educated people use the net and don't watch tv for news.

[AProudLiberalDem]

I'm interested in where you got your facts.

[Openyermind]

Ditto, but I have heard these statements before, and it would not surprise me if they are accurate.

[IhaveaDREAMwhitegirl]

Jon Stewart and team, thankyou for all the laughs and smiles.

[Isabelle101]

Fox has the best ratings because it is excellent! The other biased networks are jealous and that is why they are attacking.

They should get rid of their crazies like Keith Olbermann and the guy who gets a thrill up his leg whenever he hears Obama for starters.

People watch Fox because it's standards are very high and they are not biased. They report the news and let people make up their own minds. The rest of the MSM are just propaganda machines filling the leftist mind with excrement.

[ApprxAm]

WOW! I'm trying to imagine you with a straight while typing that crap.

I bet your stress level rose a bit there, Isabelle.

[Sepulchre]

FOX, you mean the network that went to court for lying. Never once denying during the trial that they lied, not once. However ended up with a ruling in their favor basically saying it is ok for them to lie, and you believe them?

I'd review your critical reasoning skills.

[lorryinflorida]

I'm sorry, I have to spell this one out.... LAUGHING MY A** OFF!!!! Isabelle101, that's the funniest thing I've read here on HuffPost in a while, and we all know, there's LOTS of funny out here.

[RoofinReality]

Fox has a clear right leaning bias, MSNBC has a clear left-leaning bias (based on the guests each talking head has on their show).

Hannity has, almost exclusively, people who agree with him. The same can be generally said for O'Reilly, but not nearly as much as Hannity. Don't watch Greta enough to know, but it seems more righty.

Joe has folks from both sides show up and I like his recent "debate" amongst lefties.
I haven't watched enough of Ed to know but more often than not, his shows seem to carry left leaning guests.
Matthews, to me, has the best mix of guests as he routinely gets people from both sides to debate a topic. He still kills me with the question to the Texas State Senator when Matthews asked the guy to name ONE POLICY that he likes of Obama. On national TV. So, even though he did get tingly, that shows that he pushes both sides to make an articulate argument, and not stick to speaking points. To me, he's the best right now.
Olbermann is the opposite of Hannity, almost everyone on his show agrees with him. I do like Olbermann if for no other reason than when I listen to Rush and Hannity in the afternoon, he then gives concrete proof, data, info to refute a lot of what they said earlier.
Maddow seems to get more than her fair share of righties, although the majority of her guests still agrees with her.

[pepper47]

Let me show you the path back down to earth. First learn what projection bias is.
After looking in that mirror, you will experience a phenomenen called cognitive dissonance.
The final step is when you don't have to rationalize watching Fox News.

[olorinstaff]

'Why do 'entertainers' feel as if they can be everything to everybody? If I wanted political opinion I certainly would not tune in to Jon Stewart. Ultimately, Stewart is being pimped to try and make a statement. It doesn't work.'

News flash. Limbaugh, and the folks at fox news are all entertainers, just like Jon Stewart. None of them are real news people.

[sepiasiren]

great point--Limbaugh is touted as an entertainer but Cheney says he speaks for conservatives...

[tigerlyly]

Stewart has been wildly successful at making a statement.

People are capable of informing themselves while enjoying the antics of entertainers. Political satirists are part and parcel of the American political system.

[ApprxAm]

Awwwwwwww...that's so cute. Is the problem John Stewart has listeners/veiwers or that he just might make sense, even though you won't search him out for opinions.

You are worried, because I think you think it works and you're angry about it. You simply wouldn't waste your time writing about it, nor would you care if liberals were merely being fooled by him.

Your concern is the effective work of the Daily Show with JOHN STEWART and not his presumed mantle of OPINE chief of the United States who just so happens to "doesn't work." as you claimed.

[mlrlmsw]

Hey, newsflash! "Liberals" are Christians, too! In fact, Jesus himself sounds more like a liberal than a right-winger, doesn't he? Or, don't you know?

[toadicux]

He was a libertarian!

[macweenie]

Yeah. Jesus OFTEN sounded like Ayn Rand.

Jesus - "For I say unto you, let not the man who starves in the gutter trouble your mind, nor the child who dies for want of medicine, for I say they have failed as people who have failed in business. Do not give alms to the poor for they will learn to rely on others. Do instead what my father commands and scrape them off of thy shoes."

[Flight]

Why do 'entertainers' feel as if they can be everything to everybody? If I wanted political opinion I certainly would not tune in to Jon Stewart. Ultimately, Stewart is being pimped to try and make a statement. It doesn't work.

[sepiasiren]

Think about that the next time you Quote RUSH Limbaugh the entertainer

[Bdub24]

The FOX news issue is way too easy to attack, and granted, MSNBC can be seen as the yin to their yang as far as their politics go, but they can be entertaining...and I don't mean for journalistic purposes. However, it was Stewarts thing about CNN that had me rolling. It seems like whoever is speaking at the time refers to their website or twitter every 10 minutes or so. It becomes distracting after awhile. I find it hard to watch them. BBC America is the only news I know of that doesn't come across in the tabloid like manner most stations have fallen into these days. Ratings. All about the ratings.

[mamacat]

Stewart if famous for using actual clips to expose hypocrisy at Faux News, CNN, CNBC, and anywhere else he finds it. Faux News is just famous for lying.

[rcpmac]

"were all like 'I KNOW' "
HA!

[playsindirt]

I don't consider Fox to be REAL news. I put them up their with the National Inquirer. People who consume that stuff don't understand that it's all edited to conform to their mostly conservative viewership. It's basically brainwashing propagand, much like Limbaugh's radio show. There's a huge difference between reporting the news and modifying and tailoring reality which is what I feel Fox does.

[MichaelMcKLA]

Yep I agree. Bunch of hotheads spewing propaganda. I can understand their ratings vs. MSNBC and CNN. Everybody wants to be entertained. Watching a bunch of doofuses screaming, pounding fists and foaming at the mouth is entertaining.

[siepmann]

Uh, may I remind you that, unlike Fox News, The National Enquirer has standards?

[mamacat]

National Enquirer lies to make a buck. Faux News lies to push a political agenda.

[stopplaying]

What can be done? Murdoch has a market and he's using it fully. The hateful rhetoric Fox is spewing is Dangerous. For National Security please install the Fairness Doctrine or going after Rupert Murdoch's special waivers to control so much media, granted to him by George Bush needs to be revoked.

A boycott is one way...or complaints to the FCC perhaps? Let's get something done. Here's their info:

Federal Communications Commission
Consumer & Governmental Affairs Bureau
Consumer Complaints
445 12th Street, SW
Washington, D.C. 20554

http://esupport.fcc.gov/complaints.htm

The completed complaint form (obtained from FCC website) may be faxed toll-free to: 1-866-418-0232. Be sure to include all required information to prevent delay in the processing of your complaint.

You may email your completed complaint form and supporting documents to [e-mail]

[Youdontgetit]

So anyone who disagrees with your point of view is using hate speech and is dangerous? And they should be censored too. That is comforting. Fortunately, you never see "hate" coming from the wonderfully enlightened liberals. I mean, sure, people here call conservatives every name under the sun, say they need to be banned and shut down but that is OK because you are right. Letterman can insinuate that Palin's daughtter should be the victim of statutory rape, but she is an evil conservative so it is OK. Stewart can edit the hell out of things, manipulate footage and call people anything he likes but it is OK because he is a comedian. Keith Olberman can call people vile names and label them the worst person on earth because they hold a different point of view than he does but that is fine. (BTW...with Ahmadinejad and Kim il Jong alive don't you think they are the wost people on earht?)
So please don't mind what those agree with you say. It can't be hate, bias or evil if you agree with them.

[Marty Epstein]

I sent in my complaint of fox news today thanks for the link

[siepmann]

Another route would be to write to the Department of Justice and demand they start investigating Murdoch's empire in the United States for possible violations of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.

[minorityvoice]

I always thought the left was for free speech. I guess I'll have to rethink that. With you liberals free speech is for everyone except Christians and conservatives. You people amazed me.

[sepiasiren]

Christian and conservati­ves--sure.

those who spread lies and incite violence. No way.

[macweenie]

Shut up.

So have I effectively destroyed your right of free speech?

[Joseph A. Palermo - Huffpost Blogger]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joseph-a-palermo/glenn-beck-spins-the-holo_b_214118.html

[BARRY08]

We all know Fox News and its people in it are the most ANTI AMERICAN group ever

yet, nobody does anything about shutting it down ????

there has got to be some ´standards´

common decency

[smchp]

Changing it's corporate definition from news organization to political organization for tax purposes would probably do the trick.

[babo74]

MSNBC would have to be first in line there smchp