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Jon Stewart Thrashes Rove, O'Reilly For Palin Hypocrisy

Posted by Staff, Huffington Post at 10:31 AM on September 4, 2008.


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Wednesday night on "The Daily Show," Jon Stewart hit Karl Rove and Bill O'Reilly with damning evidence of their hypocrisy regarding Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin.

While Rove recently praised Palin's experience as the mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, Stewart showed video of Rove trashing Virginia Governor -- and former Richmond Mayor -- Tim Kaine's executive experience, listing all the cities that are bigger than Richmond and calling such a pick "political."

Then, after recent video of O'Reilly describing Bristol Palin's pregnancy as a family issue, Stewart showed a clip of the Fox News host blaming Jamie Lynn Spears' parents for her teenage pregnancy.

Finally, after showing video of Dick Morris complaining about the rampant sexism in the media coverage of Sarah Palin, Stewart unveiled a clip of Morris saying that Hillary hides behind the sexism defense, and that anytime "the big boys" pick on Hillary, "she retreats behind the apron strings."

"In Dick Morris' defense," Stewart said, "he is a lying sack of sh*t."


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Doughboy and O'Liely need to be extraordinarliy renditioned straight to my house
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Posted by: AngryWhiteFemale on Sep 4, 2008 11:10 AM   
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And why doesn't the military surround Faux News and put them on their GPS until they stop this propaganda? The airwaves belong to the public. This clearly partisan drivel is designed to deceive the public. And nothing more. The work of Faux News is straight out of the playbook of Goebbels and Goering. It is time to take back our airwaves. They are deliberately undermining our democracy. Does anybody in the Dem Congress care?

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» Wait a minute - what airwaves?? Posted by: chaoslegs
You know this country is screwed up
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Posted by: Ellie1 on Sep 4, 2008 11:54 AM   
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when we get our news from a comedy show and our comedy from news shows.

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» RE: You know this country is screwed up Posted by: helenahanbasquet
Lighter Side Of Tragedy
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Posted by: When In Doubt on Sep 4, 2008 1:30 PM   
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There is something to be said for a country in collapse that furnishes a laughtrack as any bad TV show does.
I never thought of consistancy being a part of collapse, but it seems to be working.

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Here is a thought...
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Posted by: djnoll on Sep 4, 2008 2:51 PM   
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how about we all turn our televisions off? (It has a bonus: if politicians want our vote they have to come face us directly!) Then send letters to every news commentator and tell them we have turned them, and their advertisers off, and that the reason we have is because we want NEWS - not speculation, propaganda, opinions, or lies presented as entertainment. Then go to your local stations and tell their station managers that you have turned off their networks as well, and will only turn them back on again when they start serving the public good and presenting news - ALL THE NEWS - in a clear, unbiased, uncontaminated manner. When their sales start to fall because advertisers are not getting any benefit from placing ads, then maybe they will force reporters to report the news, and stop being propaganda machines.

Whoops, sorry, folks - I forgot we live in the land of controlled news and gestapo police tactics. For a moment, I thought I was living once again in the United States of America where a free press is one of the cornerstones of our democracy!

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» RE: Here is a thought... Posted by: elPedro
I'd love to turn my TV off ...
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Posted by: realmuzik on Sep 4, 2008 3:12 PM   
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... but it's come to where I have found Comedy Central, Current and LINK to be the ONLY essential channels included on my on Murdoch-infested DirecTV's channel offerings.

This clip is EXACTLY why we progressives deem hypocrisy a "cardinal sin," no matter who commits it. Bravo!!

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Jon nailed it
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Posted by: janelynne on Sep 4, 2008 3:33 PM   
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Kudos to Stewart and Cobert, the guys who are changing the face of journalism. They are the Edward R. Morrows of our day.

You aren't going to find that level of homework or research from the main stream media. They just don't bother, and instead trot out news-digesters. God forbid you get raw data or the unvarnished truth.

It's a crazy world when the comedy channel has more accuracy and more real information than network or cable news. You would think the media would catch on.

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» spammer Posted by: Bearzerker
Sad Story
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Posted by: Kate_24 on Sep 5, 2008 2:56 AM   
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The sad part is that all you have to do is actually listen to what they say to see the "double standard". And sadder yet, these self-acclaimed unbiased journalists are only as successful because millions find their own views (or should I say prejudice?) represented while, at the same time, they fail to see their own bigotry.

I quit watching tv a while ago, not consciously, it just sort of happened. I don't miss it.

But I thank goodness for the WWW and Comedy Central providing its shows also in Europe. Makes me feel a lot better about the U.S. again.

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Slings and arrows of outrageous pundits
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Posted by: Tollak on Sep 5, 2008 7:12 AM   
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Indeed a telling commentary on the vapidness of mainstream news, Fox in particular. And the fact that many can see that clip and still not see the absurdity of it is even more tragic.
I too quit watching TV since moving to Holland and couldn't be happier that the Daily show is out there in the ethers for all. Semper fi Jon...

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Rove, an American Embarrassment.
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Posted by: ProudAmericanSpeaks on Sep 5, 2008 10:12 AM   
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Dear Mr. Stewart,

Why are Americans still listening to Carl Rove? Why are Americans that stupid? This man was forced to leave the White House. Why are Americans still listening to him? This horrible man looks disgusting, acts disgusting and has helped the worse man run the White House for the past 8 years. Why are stupid Americans listening to anything this vulgar man has to say? The fact Rove is on ANY news station is an American embarrassment.

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Drop Biden....Steward for VP !
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Posted by: reelectnoone on Sep 5, 2008 2:02 PM   
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I mean that in jest of course, but Jon Stewart is far more qualified than Palin. I think my garbage man is too because he is trained in the effective removal of waste.

I have a dog I would like to see recruited as secretary of the interior. He loves to roam in the woods.

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Children off limits? Somebody should have told McCain!
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Posted by: A. Malech on Sep 6, 2008 3:32 PM   
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Remember that joke he told about Clinton's 18-year-old daughter back in 1998 at a Republican fundraiser: "Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because Janet Reno is her father."
At the time Chelsea was no beauty but she was smart enough not to get pregnant.

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