'Daily Show' Destroys CNN For Fact-Checking 'SNL' Instead Of Their Guests (VIDEO)

Jon Stewart began his show last night by skewering CNN for fact-checking a "Saturday Night Live" skit in which Fred Armisen (playing Barack Obama) claimed to have done "nothing" since taking office. In this hard-hitting report, CNN found that while many of the president's initiatives have not moved forward, he has in fact done "something" since taking office. Take that, comedy show.

"While you were doing your research did you also find that sharks live in water and don't deliver candy grams... and that the majority of boxes do not have d*cks in them?" Stewart asked. He went on to show several instances of CNN guests saying spurious things and introducing made-up statistics without being asked where their numbers came from or countered with facts.

At the end of the 11-minute segment, Stewart brought in Aasif Mandvi and John Oliver to put the final nails in CNN's coffin. "They're the most professional network in the business, three times more professional. Most people agree they have 20 to 35 to 70% more facts," Mandvi claimed. Oliver countered with this: "They are goat f**kers."


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Comments

[jerryfromcalifornia]

03:26 PM on 10/17/2009

I have always wondered why that cable shows allow a person to give the last word and some outragious statement comes out. It happenes a lot.
jerry belairca

[Hurting1]

11:52 AM on 10/17/2009

Jon is great, but if you want the hard and true news watch MSNBC with Rachael, Keith and Ed. They are honest and check their facts. Only the right-wing crazies call them communists because their party is so full of corruption that they feel they have to attack anyone who calls them on it.
Warning: the hard and true news is depressing­, take it in small doses unless you have very thick skin.
We are being screwed all the time!
(Read Screwed by Thom Hartmann)

Peace!

[patilee]

10:57 AM on 10/17/2009

I'm wondering why so many continue to watch shows they claim to "hate" and feel are full of lies. And if they don't watch, how do they know? How do you know Stewart isn't telling lies for "comedy sake?"

[patilee]

10:32 AM on 10/17/2009

The fact that posters here would state that they "loathe" any television show with every part of their being, a show that they surely do do watch and have no idea what it is about except for what others tell them, is, is a very sad statement on their life. Get a real life, focus all that energy on something productive­.

[PolarisNorth]

08:51 AM on 10/17/2009

CNN is infamous in China. The people of the US is one step behind in coming to realizatio­n that CNN is not a news network, it is a disinforma­tion network. We have a tendency to think that everything in China is evil, they are the "commies", and nothing could be good from China. The disinforma­tion network CNN made great play on this during the China Olympic period through distortion of facts, exaggerati­on of negatives, selective reporting, etc., and painted China as the hell on Earth, its people unenlighte­ned, the Olympics as nothing but a propaganda­. During the Lhasa Riot, CNN's distortion­s and lies aroused such indignatio­n in the common folks of China so much so that the netizens came up with a slogan that spread like fire: "As a person, don't be too CNN!".

[SupportTech2]

08:30 AM on 10/16/2009

Thanx Jon....for exposings CNN's sloppy, undercover­, biased reporting.­....I could have sworn CNN was cheering on Fox and Rush this week, in the issue of the White House and Fox.....an­d The NFL against Rush....ev­ery pundit except Roland Martin...w­as fighting Rush's position, Sad state that is today. They are becoming wolves in wolves clothing.

[TwinkleShine]

12:35 AM on 10/16/2009

CNN - (A) Crappy News Network.

[Veritas 1]

12:32 AM on 10/16/2009

Speaking of CNN, did anyone else notice that both Wolf Blitzer and Soledad O'Brien were humiliated in this season's Celebrity Jeopardy?

[aspertame2]

10:44 PM on 10/15/2009

Y'know, even before catching Stewart's brilliant bit, every time in recent years that I've seen an anchor say something to the effect of "well, we'll have to leave it there..."

...I've mentally substitute­d "I would really like to call you on your B.S. and rake you over the coals, but my evil corporate overlords have decided that anything short of pithy and superficia­l is bad for ratings."

[EODDuck]

10:19 PM on 10/15/2009

Everything said about CNN is true. They really do suck, except for a very important caveat....­Robin Meade. She makes the world go round. Anyone who says anything different will have their eyes gouged out so as to never appreciate her again.

[RobinJoJo]

08:55 PM on 10/15/2009

CNN was OWNED by this bit. I saw it and it was awesome.

[Polichick66]

08:11 PM on 10/15/2009

"CNN, Nobody leave more things there." LOL!

[twlghtzn10]

07:34 PM on 10/15/2009

Go Jon!!! How about when they do quote a study, they name the sponsor of the study, demographi­cs of those interviewe­d (as in: All republican­s, donors, oldies, etc...) and sample (how many they surveyed) and correspond­ing error rate. When I hear a politician throw around a random... x% think we don't need a public option, I don't believe it unless I also know how the survey was fielded, if the sponsoring organizati­on was known to participan­ts and where the sample came from. Plus more... but then again, I'm a market research profession­al.

[BuckCarson]

06:15 PM on 10/15/2009

I always thought Stewert was a SNL actor. Does he actually have his own show, or is it on the comedy channel, MSNBC?

[Polichick66]

07:57 PM on 10/15/2009

He's had his own show on the Comedy Channel for years. He took over for Craig Kilborn I believe.

[SigonellaPC3]

03:28 AM on 10/16/2009

I think he was coveted by that other comedy channel, Fox News, but declined to perform COMEDY that has more news substance than the NEWS CHANNELS..­. Righties love to throw out that 'he's a comedian' bit, like Franken's Stewart Smalley, until boom, we got ourselves a congressma­n. Keep it going smart guy...

[EStreetShuffler]

03:49 PM on 10/15/2009

Well, since CNN was always fact-check­ing all those Bush sketches on SNL, it wouldn't be fair if they let this one on Obama slip by...