Remember the other day when The Daily Show busted Sean Hannity doctoring footage of Michele Bachmann’s recent orgy of retardation to make its turnout appear more impressive than it actually was? Well, Hannity promised to issue an apology to Stewart in the aftermath, forcing the comedian to actually watch Hannity’s dumb show, which he barely survived doing.
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Brushing off the blatant doctoring of news video to enhance a politically-motivated point as merely an “inadvertent mistake,” Hannity saved his sheepish “apology” for the last 30 seconds of the show and then only directed it at Stewart, not to the millions of doltish minions who tune in each night hanging on his every word, which they consider to be gospel and never bother to challenge, and in doing so Hannity caused Jon Stewart’s teddy bear to kill itself while the host himself nearly died. But it was funny…
This is so fuckin' funny. The best is how Hannity's program caused the flowers to die.
Poor Mr. cuddles; we hardly knew ya. R.I.P.
It just shows that we all make mistakes no one is perfect i still like Hannity's program on Fox channel and on the radio
I finally understand the name "Comedy Central." It is official notification that the network airs comedy. Otherwise, it would be nearly impossible to tell from watching "The Daily Show."
I honestly could not find the heinous and eggregious nature of Hannity's program's mistake. Is this the "smoking gun" that proves Fox News' lack of objectivity and, God forbid, accurate reporting? Is this somehow the counter to liberal media bias?
Since you brought up altering of reality, please address how your altered-reality-template perspective on the knowledge "we" had of Nidal Hassan a year ago has anything to do with Bush being President then. For your audience, let me explain, hopefully on the third grade level . . . it'll stretch you but try to stay with me on this. "We knew" is the proverbial "we" of the infrastructure of our country's military. "We knew" does not imply or mean that all 350 million Americans knew. It means that "we," inasmuch as we are Americans and have a right to expect certain things of our government, had the knowledge of such things albeit located in nearly all the right places like the CIA, the FBI, Army Intelligence, the internet (please see inventor Al Gore for an explanation, et al). The occupant of the oval orafice probably does not get this kind of information in his daily briefings. It's usually a matter for the intelligence communities as well as the internal military mechanisms.
You see "we" can be taken to mean we in a literal sense or a figurative sense. Now see, I've graduated to about the 4th grade level. My apologies.
All you hypocrites in the liberal media are the stupidest people most deceptive jack asses in the world, how many times has John Stewart miss used footage from Fox News, I think you picked a fight you can't win.
Johns comment about Hassan shows how it is impossible to make any since out of what you are hearing, the issue is not that the president is to blame, but rather how he reacts to an obvious terror attack , his unwilling nus to call a spade a spade at least in this case, but when a black college professor is arrested he is quick to asses.
Time to pull your head out of your ass.
This is clear evidence that the GOP is breaking into pieces! The ROA party, racist of america are do a great job of destroying a party that was once worthy. Thanks to all you mentally ill program directors and writers at FOX and especially the sick owner of this false network! Thank you and God bless the honesty of America.
Noel Cookman,
I didn't realize "we"could take on so many characters. Why doesn't Hannity say what he means. I don't want to have to rely on more right wing nut jobs to translate for another right wing nut job. So if "we" knew a year ago, what is Hannity's point? You say its not Bush's problem then, why is it Obama's problem now? That's what Hannity is insisting. And if that is FOX news? Then its a slow news day.
By the way…IM not a democrat or liberal. I do see hypocrisy when I see it. I also see fear mongering and extremeism when I see it. And hannity and all the rest of the nut jobs on fox are dispensing it daily…….unnecessarily. But you keep buyin it! Sad….
seriously guys? its pretty clear that was a misuse of tape and on purpose for that matter. i work in tv and radio and you literally could not put that clip in there without knowledge of it. im not against fox….but that looks pretty bad.
Keep it coming Jon ….. priceless!!!
I appreciate Gary's response teaching us the correct spelling of the noun variation of the adjective "willing" is "willing nus".
Thanks to you, Gary, from one of those, as you put it "stupidest people most deceptive jack asses". I cringe to think of the masses out there like you who can, and apparently do, vote.
i do not watch fox news because i think its a racist news station
FOX IS CRAP OR VICE VERSA
SEAN HANNITY AND DICK MORRIS LOVE AFFAIR CONTINUES…..LMAO!!!
Bain thank you for at least admitting you are one of the stupid ones,you can only point a type o,that comment was to the liberal media but if you want to lump yourself in with that crowd be my guest,you so eloquently have proven my point you liberals are incapable of understanding anything being said or written, the beginning of my statement says all you hypocrites in the liberal media,are you part of the liberal media.
See my spell check does work.
I don't understand how can you know if Fox News is racist when you don't watch, silly rabbit msnbc is for kids.
Oh by the way Bain you missed one asses, let me make the correction assess.
HERE'S MY THOUGHT: MAKES ME WANT TO WATCH JON STEWART'S SJOW MORE OFTEN. FUNNY. :JUST MY THOUGHT.
So Fox is a GOP news outlet? Hannity just confirmed it. News means the message is new. So why is Fox cocking it? This is worrisome and so so bad.
FOX IS NOT NEWS ; NEWS IS SUPPOSE TO BE NON BIAS…BUT YOU HAVE NOT GOT THE MESSAGE YET THAT THERE TRYING TO DICTATE WHAT YOU DO… THEN ITS ALREADY TO LATE…SWITCH OFF!!
Gary, you are a lost sad idiot. Spell check will not save you from making an ass out of yourself. Miss Used is your wife and Type O is your blood type, you stupid git.
Hannity took the high road after being corrected. He apologized, thanked Stewart, and never lost his class.
Stewart responded by mocking and degrading Hannity's program. People often resort to petty ridicule and mockery when no solid ground is left to stand upon.
Fox News has more daytime viewers than any of the mainstream network channels (NBC, CBS, ABC) have during prime time!
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/179815-C…
The top 11 cable news programs are also Fox News Productions.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/28/fox-news…
Sounds like the left is a bit jealous and intimidated to me.
Schuptz, your comment was genius. The majority of the time, I think it's petty when someone picks on grammar. The exception being when somebody types an entire paragraph that is complete nonsense, like Gary's comments. I've read his comments three times and I'm convinced it has to be some incoherent different language. Grammar doesn't matter all that much, but you should be able to communicate your thoughts in writing. Gary failed miserably.
Calling a spade a spade doesn't work when comparing two completely different entities, a news channel and a comedy show. And I struggle to feel my next statement is completely fair, but it is true. They aren't equal. Yet the comedy show forced an apology from the news show. It was a lame, sarcastic apology, but it was still an apology. They tricked their viewers and didn't feel the need to apologize to them. How can you possibly not see something wrong with this? Why would anyone watch when the show has no respect for you? It baffles me. And this scares me more and more each day.
The people who watch and believe the crap being spewed by FOX are fools. As pointed out by Jon Stewart, FOX should change their tag line to, "We Alter Reality. You Are Sold A Preconceived Narrative." The sad reality, though is that there are many many people who watch doctored video and perceive on FOX and believe it to be gospel truth.
Again you stupid liberals can not comprehend anything ,calling a spade a spade is in reference to a liberals lack of ability to call a person who carries out a terrorist act a terrorist. Hope this isn't to complicated for your small mind to comprehend .When you misunderstand simple statements how can you possibly judge Fox News. I would also be scared if I had such inability to understand the simplest statements.
Trying to talk down to your level is difficult but I will keep trying.
I think if Fox news specially from Beck, Oreilly and Hanity will say that the earth is flat, lots of people will still believe and fight for it to the last that it is really flat. That's how I see things in America but I still belived that there are more smart people living in the US as they have chosen and elected a smart President
Why cant we all get along, and stop calling each other names? Is this not America: Land of the Free, and Home of the Brave?
FYI,
The FOX channel stands for:
Full
Of
Xhit
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Wahhabi Lobbyists?
"All you hypocrites in the liberal media are the stupidest people most deceptive jack asses in the world, how many times has John Stewart miss used footage from Fox News, I think you picked a fight you can’t win."
Are you saying that Fox News is a comedy show? The Daily Show is.
Gary,
Re: You stupid liberals. "Trying to talk down to your level is difficult but I will keep trying."
I believe you've nailed it down pretty good. You don't have to keep trying. In fact you seem to have surpassed them. :0)
Wow….Gary….dude…..really, you should not attempt to talk down to anyone on these posts….you just don't have the grammar or typing skills to do it. I am a center-right person who used to like the GOP. But now all I see is this polarized and right-wing nonsense that seeks to tear down rather than offer solutions. There is a reason why the GOP has sub-30% popularity and I have news for you it's not because of the liberal media. It is because these hateful messages simply don't appeal to very many people
….only to lower IQ people such as Gary who cannot form an argument nor type one.
Before the righties accuse me of being a lefty, know that I have voted Republican more often than Democrat. In fact, I am not a big fan of health care run by the government, but I at least have to respect Obama trying to address a huge national problem. The GOP that I used to like would constructively engage rather than fear monger. Until the GOP gets that, it will be only be "Gary's Obsolete Party"
WOW, REALLY PEOPLE… JUST WATCH AND READ THE NEWS THEN MAKE YOUR OWN DECISIONS/CONCLUSSIONS.. IF YOU BUY ANY MEDIA HOOK LINE AND SINKER YOU ARE NOT USING YOUR OWN GOD GIVEN BRAIN… JUST GROW UP.
Jeff…Amen to that! It scares me that more people don't think for themselves. I may be a democrat (because of personal views on most subjects), but I have given my vote to Republicans (locally) who I believed were better candidates. I use my mind to think for myself…I value other opinions, but I come to my own conclusion.
Wow, you guys are vicious lol. And Gary? do yourself a favor and shut the hell up- I agree with Chris 1, if you don't know how to speak, you don't know how to write, and you also don't know how to think, its probably not the best idea to trash talk everyone around you.
Gary, I apologize for misunderstanding the spade's a spade comment. The Hassan part of the Hannity clip was referring to warning signs and had nothing to do with Obama, and Jon Stewart made a throwaway joke about this observation. You didn't get the joke and I now recognize you didn't get the joke. Your Hassan comments had nothing to do with the clip and nothing to do with Jon Stewart's joke.
I will point out you did start out your comments comparing The Daily Show to Fox News. I just wanted to explain I don't agree that the two are equal and I think it's a bad comparison. Though I guess I should be okay with the comparison. Fox News equals Comedy. Again, I apologize for using the phrase a spade's a spade incorrectly.
And Chris, thank you for stating things far better than I ever could. I'm a registered Democrat, but as I pay more attention to issues as I grow older, I feel my views are probably more conservative. It's just I have such a hard time ignoring all the hate and fearmongering from Fox News. I associate this example of Fox's deception with the GOP. It's not at all fair, but that's the lousy effect this stupid nonsense has on me. And if the GOP wants to have any success, I absolutely agree with you that they need to engage and (as the Daily Show perfectly puts it) not alter reality and sell a preconceived narrative.
Gary , Gary, Stop drinking the kolade!!!It's rotten your brain water boy!
this is for realitycheck just so u know rallies in d.c just don't happen it was well plan out and controlled the fact that the post gave it one number and someone else gave it another may not be true these people all didn't drive to d.c there were charter buses some came by train and some by way of air ports these things are very controlled i drive a bus beleive me i seen alot of rallies anditwas not as many people as any of themever says it is the media is the last toknow of it unless there the ones hosting it
It's guys like Gary that give the Republicans a bad name. I'm a conservative democrat, kinda of centrist but have voted Republican in the past, when there were true Republicans. Now, you have neanderthals that profess they are Republicans solely because they don't have a party to associate themselves to is quite tragic. I would love to call them fanatics but that would be considered to "extreme". Hmmmmmm, extremists!! That's the ticket!!
To those of you having your very brief gloat fest: Yeah and there were really a million men at the Million Man March. How many of you believe that?
First if they did it on purpose, and I doubt it, I’m glad they got caught. It would be a shame because the crowd speaks for itself. However many people showed up… showed up. 10 – 15000 is still a huge number for something organized that quickly.
But it’s much more likely that the “producers of the show” were caught with their pants down because they had no useable footage of the larger crowd. So they pulled some footage of the recent Beck rally thinking it didn’t matter. Have you ever seen footage of 10 – 15 thousand people? I promise depending on the angle you wouldn’t know the difference.
Again for the record I’m not excusing the mistake. They are paying for it. But the fact that a comedy show is scrutinizing Fox at that level says a lot. It says they are in fact scared to death of the ground swell of people that showed up in very short time that the event was advertised. Someone has to actually sit through every show on Fox actively looking for mistakes. And frankly as far as I can tell this is the first time I’ve seen anything like this get discovered. Even Jon Stewart is willing to use the 10,000 number from the Washington Post. It amazes me how conveniently you all over look that number. If the Post was willing to say 10,000 then you and I know it was at least 15,000. Dude, that’s a lot of people at ANY rally.
But here’s the real point; why doesn’t Stewart use his resources to look at the real problem. And that is all of the intentional lies being told by the Obama administration about Health Care Reform, Cap and Trade, and the Stimulus which is stimulating nothing but more unemployment. Why doesn’t he take even a cursory look at recovery.gov and all of the “accidental” mistakes in the Saved or Created Jobs scam? THAT would actually be a worthy use of resources. Are you aware that they recently spent 18,000,000 to CORRECT the recovery.gov website? How many people could that money have helped? There’s the real story. Do any of you liberal gotcha drones care?
Lastly, did you see the crowd in the Beck rally? That is another conveniently over looked fact in all of this. Between the Tea Parties, the Beck rally, the town hall meetings, and the White House rally on Nov 5th that’s a lot of people by ANYONE’S estimation coming out to say the same thing. Stop screwing with our lives and taxing us to death! As you continue to gloat and over look the obvious get ready for the 2010 elections. You obviously missed what happened a few weeks ago in the elections. (Liberals thinking) “Oh! You mean there were elections this year?†You guys are about to be woken up.
Cheers!
realitycheck…Also, I live in DC and you better believe that a rally is never last minute. The government is here! District and mostly Federal. The Federal Government is the driving force in the downtown areas where rallies are held and there is no way in hell a rally could ever be last minute anywhere near the White House, the OEB, Justice, FBI, Congress, and the State Department (to name a few). Trust me!
Is that the best you can do is say the the rally wasn't last minute? First you are working off assumtions, you have no proof. If that's the case then let's just stop reporting altogether on rallies of any kind, Conservative or Libeal. How's that? And second what about everything else in my blog? Hmmmm? You have focused on the one thing that is MEANINGLESS.
Obama's administration is outright hostile to any accountability and is directly attacking Fox News for its objective coverage. I've never heard some much whining and complaining from a President before about a private news organization.
As punishment, the White House tried to exclude Fox News from a White House Press Pool interview of pay czar Kenneth Feinberg. The other networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN) were so spooked by this creepy move, that they united and threatened to boycott the interview if Fox wasn't allowed to be present:
"White House Press Pool Stands Up For Fox News"
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/tipping-point-white-ho…
My fellow Americans, whether you are liberal or conservative, we all live in a a republic. Our private media is the watchdog of our representative democracy. Private media is the last great check on tyranny.
Obama is threatened by Fox News, because it's holding him and his administration accountable.
Van Jones' resignation:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/elections/2009/09…
"Stimulus spending figures attributed to congressional districts that do not exist"
http://abcnews.go.com/WN/white-house-stimulus-web…
President Bush endured years of hostile press, protesters at his private ranch, ridicule from late night comedy, and he never complained.
"Protesters Near Bush Ranch Demand Withdrawal of Troops from Iraq"
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0824-01.h…
For supposedly being Commander-In-Chief, leader of the free world, and our savior to lead us out of this recession, he doesn't handle constructive criticism very well, and he sure has some thin skin!
Fox News is the only "HONEST" News Station and tells it like it is…. Not like all the other ones…. The rest of them are all "PINHEADS"
Look at all the liberal sac dwelling fans of Jon "Out of context" Stewart. Mr. Leibowitz really should not be throwing stones when the house he lives in is made of such fragile glass. Then again, I'd expect this of a liberal tool who grew up without a father (aka, most of them).