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The Daily Show Takes Down Fox News

Posted by Joshua Holland, AlterNet at 8:04 AM on April 12, 2008.


Faux News Channel produces glowing hagiography of Bush, John Oliver puts it through the shredder.
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Conservatives are good at reinventing their Dear Leaders' images after they leave office. The best example is Reagan, a not-terribly popular president who's been re-cast as a universally-beloved "Great Communicator" (among the past ten presidents, Reagan's average approval rating, 52 percent, puts him in sixth place, behind Kennedy (70 percent), Eisenhower (66 percent), George H.W. Bush (61 percent), Bill Clinton (55 percent), and Lyndon Johnson (55 percent)).

I guess Fox News is trying to get a jump on the process, with the release of a glowing, Riefenstahl-esque hagiography of Bush before he's even left office and had a moment to contemplate what project he'll screw up next.

But the Daily Show's John Oliver hit back, with a hilarious look at Fox's purported fairness and balance.

Part I:





Part II after the jump:

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Joshua Holland is an editor and senior writer at AlterNet.


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Posted by: EJLima on Apr 12, 2008 8:23 AM   
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Thank you Joshua. Amen.

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Can't get video to work
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Posted by: evanssd on Apr 12, 2008 8:26 AM   
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Any body else having trouble?

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» RE: Can't get video to work Posted by: Joshua Holland
» RE:Thanks, so much, Joshua. Posted by: Turiye
» RE: Thanks, so much, Joshua. Posted by: Joshua Holland
Nudge, Nudge, Wink, Wink
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Posted by: Turiye on Apr 12, 2008 8:37 AM   
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Say No More.....
Thanks, Josh.

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One of the best bits on The Daily Show...
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Posted by: Quannah on Apr 12, 2008 8:56 AM   
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in a long time! Reminds me of the old days.

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FAUX News- The Official Death Knell For The American Media
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Posted by: rgoalierob on Apr 12, 2008 9:16 AM   
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They all suck, FAUX just sucks more.
Sadly, few Americans know what to believe anymore.

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So funny
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Posted by: walldodger1969 on Apr 12, 2008 10:12 AM   
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Sooooo Sad....

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» Gottagree Posted by: 2dogarage
And now, the FOX News of Newspapers: the Wall Street Journal
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Posted by: thoughtcriminal on Apr 12, 2008 11:10 AM   
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Chairman Rupert Murdoch said he wants the first section of The Wall Street Journal to be the source of the "greatest global and national coverage" of general news in the world, as well as "being great on big business stories." News Corp. acquired Dow Jones & Co., the parent of MarketWatch, in December. During a discussion at the annual Bear Stearns Media Conference in Palm Beach, Fla., Murdoch said there is a "huge opportunity". . .

They have dreams of global media empire - so quaint. "We shall control all information! All shall come to us and join with us, left and right, top and bottom, Hillary and George W., Saudi and Israeli alike!"

"Rupert Murdoch has landed in the Middle East. The mogul's News Corp. is launching two English-language, free-to-air satcasters in the region before the end of the year in partnership with Saudi Prince Al-Waleed Bin Talal's regional media titan Rotana. Prince Waleed holds a reported 5% stake in News Corp. and also has sizable stakes in Time Warner and Disney."

The bigger they are, the more jokes can be made at their expense. For more priceless video, check out this crowd of Ron Paul supporters chasing Hannity. "We're not falling for it anymore!" Hilarious - real democracy in action, regardless of what you think of Ron Paul.

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perfect
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Posted by: cwilsondrum on Apr 12, 2008 12:19 PM   
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perfect!

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Posted by: aalif ba ta tha on Apr 12, 2008 3:56 PM   
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once again, Comedy Central has more balls than the "liberal media" against the Republican noise machine. The best weapon against FOX really is making fun of its stupidity.

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» RE: ! Posted by: Quannah
CNN: admirable by default
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Posted by: noir on Apr 13, 2008 5:28 PM   
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It is the measure of Fox that it makes CNN look good by comparison. So too of Bush vis-a-vis Bill Clinton.

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well....
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Posted by: momly on Apr 13, 2008 6:09 PM   
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Not to knock the Daily Show, but I thought the bit would have done better to simply repeat the laff riot that was the FOX hagiography. Just run that over and over and let the hilarity ensue!

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And the winner is...
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Posted by: 2dogarage on Apr 13, 2008 9:26 PM   
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Joshua Holland for "Best use of the Thesaurus for helping the alternative media's finest rapscallions get the word out.

If it wasn't for Alternet, I would never see television, thanks for posting the best of it.

And speaking of haliographics, it's going to require a particularly silver-tongued wordsmith to spin GW's legacy into anything other than what it is, which is to say, a particularly poorly-acted front for the obscenely rich people and corporations they represent who actually own us.

It would take a huge tome to express this idiot's disingenuonesty (!) but we could start with gas prices, which hit 4 bucks a gallon in my little town today. Say what you want to laud the inbred half-wit, we're sacrificing lives in Iraq to win a war (according to Alan Greenspan) based "largely on oil".

Sometimes I think the neocons chose GW because he was such a stooge and they knew they had some real dirty work to do in this decade, who better than a pompous frat boy to take the fall for what is turning out to be the end of the world as we think we know it.

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LMAO
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Posted by: solitarysherlockian on Apr 14, 2008 6:10 AM   
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OMG--did I need that. A dose of laughter--that Bush's War and his mass murdering hasn't given me in weeks. Thanks John Oliver.

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I think we need fox news
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Posted by: rickiey on Apr 14, 2008 8:13 AM   
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Yep!

Be honest, there is are viewpoints different from ours, and all news outlets are slanted towards their own viewpoint.

Maybe it's just me, but I WANT to see the opposite slant. I want to know how others look at something, even if those others are idiots.

Without someone like Fox giving a voice to right, we don't have the ability to showcase the flaws in their opinions.

(Totally enjoyed the clips of course).

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"There but for the grace of [gods]..."
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Posted by: GriGri on Apr 14, 2008 12:44 PM   
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Only one "not of woman born" shall be able to slay MacFox. Damn, asking WWJD is irrelevant because even he is powerless against the Fox juggernaut!

If all my friends from the Evangelical community (of which I was a devout member for most of my life) looked on Fox News with the same incredulity as they do Entertainment Tonight or Inside Edition, nothing Fox did would bother me. Unfortunately, they usually quote Fox's news chapter and verse; their comments about a particular segment by Bill O'Reilly, for example, are uttered with an implied "Thus saith the Lord" preface.

When a powerful and influential minority (i.e., Evangelical Christians) gives credence to a media outlet creating and regurgitating misinformation and disinformation, it is time for concerned citizens to expose this threat to an informed electorate by any means necessary.

Thank you for doing this job with humor.

Cheers to The Daily Show!

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yet ANOTHER example that....
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Posted by: Voicedude on Apr 14, 2008 9:35 PM   
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....the only real 'fair and balanced' news - or at least truthful news - is in the guise of comedy.

This is why Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, et al are the only truly 'investigative journalists' remaining on the idiot box. After you laugh at that realization, it becomes quite sad, really.

But honestly, that 'before & after' segment of part one comparing opinions expressed before and after 'W' took office (and by that I mean stole) should be required viewing by all of the right wing blow hards we know. They won't change their minds, but it'd be sweet to see their honest reactions to the truth as mis-spoken by their own idols.

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Way to go all
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Posted by: mindtrvlr on Apr 15, 2008 11:59 PM   
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Can't argue with any of the above comments. They are all great. What we do need is, a lot more of the same, intil Fux News bites the dust.

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best
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Posted by: fernando1 on Apr 22, 2008 12:34 AM   
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