It’s encouraging to see John Stewart back Paul on this one. Stewart is a pace setter on the left in terms of public opinion, and his endorsement will help soothe the allergy that many on the left have for supporting GOP members, even when the latter happens to be doing something right.
Nod. Props to Rand for getting the gesture right.
(Source: hipsterlibertarian)
One of the reasons we are in this business is to challenge ourselves. And I really connected to Maziar’s story. It’s a personal story but one with universal appeal about what it means to be free.Jon Stewart • Discussing his plans to leave “The Daily Show” over the summer to direct a serious film, “Rosewater,” based on the life story of journalist Maziar Bahari, who was captured and imprisoned in Iran in 2009. Bahari, who has shown up on “The Daily Show” multiple times since his release, was accused of espionage by Iranian officials based on an interview he did with the show’s Jason Jones. Stewart will be away for twelve weeks, eight of which will be hosted by John Oliver, and the other four correspond with the show’s traditional summer break.
The Daily Show investigates investigative reporters
Holy shit. This is the most biting and scathing thing I’ve seen in some time. Wow. Everyone in a journalism school needs to see this. The news industry is awful. This is depressing. Watch this.
Spot-on satire. Too spot-on, unfortunately.
We don’t really have a whole lot to say about this one. Jon Stewart hit the nail on the head this time. source
Paula Broadwell, the biographer whose alleged affair with David Petraeus has fixed her squarely in the spotlight following his resignation, appeared on The Daily Show last January to discuss Petraeus and promote her book.
Master Debaters: On October 6, Daily Show host Jon Stewart will face O’Reilly Factor host Bill O’Reilly in a 90 minute debate — appropriately named “The Rumble In The Air-Conditioned Auditorium” — to raise money for charity. Interested parties will be able to watch “The Rumble” via livestream, though not for free, and half of the event’s proceeds will go to a number of charities chosen by Stewart and O’Reilly. We wholeheartedly recommend clearing your schedule that evening, setting aside $5 for the livestream, and plan to spend 90 minutes glued to your computer screen. After all, “It’s why Al Gore invented the internet.” source
Like streaming videos online, such as Comedy Central’s “Daily Show”?
Well, the fight between Viacom (which owns Comedy Central) and DirecTV has prompted Viacom to temporarily suspend some of its online videos. So we are all being punished in this dispute. http://bit.ly/NjL8Hb
— Michael J. http://on.fb.me/LbO0Bq
Worth pointing out, though, that one of Viacom’s ways of attacking DirecTV, a Pop Up Video mocking a statement by DirecTV’s CEO, no longer works; it was taken private last night. A deal in the works?
EDIT: As pointed out by a commenter, someone else threw up the video here.
I also encourage everyone to continue to pressure Kellogg’s to pivot: they refuse to criticize Jon Stewart for his April 16 “vagina manger” stunt and indeed acted irresponsibly when they offered a lame response to our serious concerns.
Today, all the top management at Kellogg’s will receive a color photo of a naked woman with her legs spread and a nativity scene ornament in between. Let’s see if that jars them. Over 700 photos have been sent to leaders in Battle Creek, Michigan.
One gets the feeling that this is the latest salvo in an arms race that started way back with the successful campaign to starve Glenn Beck of advertisers.
The Daily Show’s Twitter apparently hacked. Looks like it was hacked for political reasons. Screenshots here for posterity. Here’s the account apparently taking credit. Apparently the account was hacked last week, too. (ht Matt)
EDIT: Looks like thee other Viacom accounts got compromised — @ColbertReport, @ComedyCentral and @Spike_TV. Looks coordinated. EDIT 2: Also, the tweets — which are identical on each account — got sent via HootSuite. Is it possible that the accounts are connected? Hm. EDIT 3: Notexactly points out another Viacom account, @Warriors_Den, also got hacked.
Jon Stewart took to The Daily Show last night (11/10/11) to talk about the Penn State child sexual abuse scandal, and gave a serious commentary about how people knew of Sandusky’s abuse and didn’t do anything, as well as the recent student rioting over the firing of coach Joe Paterno.
The very end of this is worth heeding for Penn State fans: “And just like with the Catholic Church, no one is trying to take away your religion, in this case, football. They’re just trying to bring some accountability to a “Pope” and some of his “Cardinals” who fucked up. So don’t worry, on Saturday, you’ll still get to go to ‘services’ against Nebraska. No one’s going to take that away. Because, obviously, you’re young. And that would be a traumatic experience. And we wouldn’t want that memory to scar you for life.”
(Source: the-mtblog)
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If this is the material left to expect of Daily Show field pieces, it’s hard to see how they will continue to fit on a political program — unless, of course, Congress is generous enough to provide a new, scrotum-friendly sex scandal.Mediaite discusses the fact that “The Daily Show” featured an uncensored image of Jason Jones’ uh … marbles … in a segment about his vasectomy. Surprisingly low-brow of them. If you want to see the image or the clip, you know where to go. (NSFW, obviously.)
We cooperate and we fight as hard as we can, because there will perhaps be disappointment but there will be no shame.A specialist in the 655th TC, writing to Jon Stewart • In a letter Stewart mentioned on Monday’s episode of “The Daily Show.” Stewart used the episode to pay tribute to the soldiers fighting overseas after he paid a visit to Khandahar this past weekend. After displaying several t-shirts that he had promised to wear, he read some of his observations and thank yous. Stewart then read this quote from a letter from a young specialist, from one of the nicest letters he’s ever received. source (via • follow)
CNN anchor Don Lemon appears not to care for CNN’s approach to the news sometimes
Don Lemon doesn’t care anymore guys. He’s better than his material.
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