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Obama to Jon Stewart: I Haven't Been 'Timid'

President defends his accomplishments on Daily Show

(Newser) - President Obama fended off ribbing about a "timid" agenda from Jon Stewart, and defended his accomplishments on a much-hyped Daily Show appearance. One standout exchange:
  • Stewart: “Is the difficulty you have here the distance between what you ran on and what you delivered? You ran with such, if
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Stewart: McCain's Been Complaining 'Forever'

Host shows hilarious montage

(Newser) - Jon Stewart’s in Washington DC, and it is broken. Just ask John McCain. Like most of this year’s eager new Republican reformers, McCain’s been bashing the system left and right lately… and not-so-lately. Stewart breaks out the archive footage to show that McCain’s been repeating the...

Jon Stewart Voted 'World's Most Influential'

President Obama drops to 21st place

(Newser) - President Obama, chosen as the world's most influential man by the readers of online mag AskMen in 2008, didn't even crack the top 20 this time around. This year, the half-million readers who voted on the top 49 named Jon Stewart as the most influential man of 2010, describing the...

There's Nothing Funny About Jon Stewart's Rally
There's Nothing Funny
About Jon Stewart's Rally
anne applebaum
Oct 26, 2010 11:15 AM CDT

There's Nothing Funny About Jon Stewart's Rally

It's spitting on the word 'moderate'—and we need that word: Applebaum

(Newser) - Anne Applebaum has been unable to find a shred of humor in Jon Stewart's Rally to Restore Sanity—aka Million Moderate March—or the fact that Arianna Huffington and PETA are shepherding "moderates" there. The entire event spits on the word, she writes for the Washington Post , and it's...

Jon Stewart, 'The Daily Show' in Washington, DC: Video
 Jon Stewart Kicks Off DC Week 
Oct 26, 2010 7:21 AM CDT

Jon Stewart Kicks Off DC Week

'Daily Show' ramps up excitement for Saturday rally

(Newser) - Jon Stewart kicked off the Daily Show’s week in Washington, DC, by weighing in on—what else?—the Juan Williams-NPR controversy. The obvious problem? Williams violated NPR’s “never-say-anything-interesting policy,” says correspondent Samantha Bee. And, considering Fox News was quick to jump all over NPR as soon...

Jon Stewart's Sanity Rally Goes Global

Events scheduled in 67 countries

(Newser) - Jon Stewart's spoofy political Rally to Restore Sanity is headed toward world domination. Some 800 Sanity demonstrations in 67 nations are being planned around the globe to coincide with the Daily Show host's DC demonstration this Saturday. Sanity marchers will gather from Paris to Mt. Everest's base camp in Nepal....

Jon Stewart Calls CNN 'Terrible'— While on CNN

Larry King seems a bit offended

(Newser) - Jon Stewart pulled no punches in an occasionally cringe-worthy interview with Larry King last night, telling the departing host that his network was awful. “You’re the last guy out of a burning building, my friend,” Stewart said to open the interview. “By the way, I think...

Larry King Gifts Port-a-Potty to Stewart Rally

'That's the one I'm gonna use,' Stewart promises

(Newser) - Jon Stewart was on Larry King Live last night, and the host had a little surprise for him: a portable toilet intended for use at Stewart's upcoming rally . “Please tell me that that is not the capsule that they keep you in,” Stewart begged. “Is that the...

Stewart and Colbert's Rally a Terrible Idea

It's just going to piss the right off

(Newser) - In a recent interview, Jon Stewart said that his Rally to Restore Sanity/Keep Fear Alive is “not meant to ridicule activism, or the Tea Party movement or religious people.” Maybe he’s being honest about activism and religion, “but if Stewart doesn’t mean to ridicule the...

Obama to Hit the Daily Show
 Obama to Hit the Daily Show 
Oct 20, 2010 9:04 AM CDT

Obama to Hit the Daily Show

President will guest days before rally—sorry, Glenn Beck

(Newser) - Glenn Beck is probably not a fan of the upcoming Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert rally as it is—but his head is really “going to explode when he hears this:” President Obama will be a guest on the Daily Show just days before the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or...

Oprah Flying Daily Show Audience to Rally

And she seems pretty darn excited about it

(Newser) - Oprah Winfrey is always giving stuff to her audience , and she feels bad that Jon Stewart’s audience never gets anything. So she made a surprise appearance on last night’s Daily Show (right after Stephen Colbert and Stewart announced that the Stewart’s Rally to Restore Sanity would be...

NPR Bars Employees From Stewart-Colbert Rallies

Memo sent to entire organization, not just reporters

(Newser) - There’s only one way employees of NPR will be attending the Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert DC rallies: If they’re covering the events. The organization sent a memo to employees yesterday reminding them that they “may not participate in marches and rallies involving causes or issues that NPR covers,...

Stewart Blasts Rove's 'Foreign Donor' Hypocrisy

Conservatives are not above fear-mongering, he says

(Newser) - Karl Rove and Fox News are outraged— outraged! —that the Democrats are running ads suggesting that GOP-backed groups take "secret foreign money." "Have these people no shame?" Rove asks. Right, jokes Jon Stewart on the Daily Show , because conservatives would never spread rumors about shadowy...

Jon Stewart on Foreclosure Crisis: 'We're F***ed'

If the banks won't read the fine print, who will?

(Newser) - When it comes to the foreclosure crisis , “we are f***ed,” declares Jon Stewart—“and the sad part is, Rube Goldberg himself could not have designed a more convoluted method to, in fact, f*** us.” Stewart explained the situation last night as only he can: “Everybody...

Rick Sanchez Apologizes for 'Tired' Words

Says he has no hard feelings toward CNN or Jon Stewart

(Newser) - Rick Sanchez wants everyone to know that he meant no offense with his comments about Jews running the media , that he bears no ill will toward CNN or Jon Stewart, and that you can still buy his book. "On October 4th, I had a very good conversation with...

Hitchens: Rehire Rick Sanchez
 Hitchens: Rehire Rick Sanchez 
OPINION
Oct 5, 2010 10:46 AM CDT

Hitchens: Rehire Rick Sanchez

And what's so terrible about calling the Jewish lobby powerful?

(Newser) - Rick Sanchez is out of a job and apparently sorry about it, but exactly what is the problem with pointing out the obvious power of the Jewish lobby, asks Christopher Hitchens over at Slate. Washington's elite plainly swoon before pro-Israel group AIPAC, Hitchens writes, and the author's own "overlapping...

Stewart Bids Adieu to Rick Sanchez
 Stewart 
 Bids Adieu 
 to Rick Sanchez 
plus: sanchez apologizes
Oct 5, 2010 7:00 AM CDT

Stewart Bids Adieu to Rick Sanchez

'I'm not even sure Sanchez believes what he's saying'

(Newser) - Jon Stewart hasn't got Rick Sanchez's Rick's List to poke fun at anymore, but the Daily Show host showed some old clips while bidding the CNN anchor an almost-fond farewell. The host compared Sanchez— fired for calling Stewart a bigot and suggesting Jews control the media —to The Office's...

Jon Stewart to Sanchez: Say Sorry, We'll Hire You Back

Comic takes swing at out-of-work CNN anchor

(Newser) - If Rick Sanchez wants his old job back, "All he has to do is apologize to us, and we'll hire him back," Jon Stewart said last night in his first jab at the former CNN anchor. "If you went on radio and said the Jews control the...

CNN Fires Rick Sanchez
 CNN Fires Rick Sanchez 
Oct 1, 2010 5:34 PM CDT

CNN Fires Rick Sanchez

He's canned a day after comments about Jews running the network

(Newser) - CNN has had enough of Rick Sanchez. The network fired the afternoon anchor today, a day after he made controversial comments about Jews and Jon Stewart during a radio interview, reports the Huffington Post . A terse company statement: “Rick Sanchez is no longer with the company. We thank Rick...

CNN's Rick Sanchez Calls Jon Stewart a 'Bigot'

Then suggests Jews run all the networks

(Newser) - This one may not die quietly: CNN's Rick Sanchez yesterday called Jon Stewart a "bigot," though he later changed that to "prejudicial" and "uninformed." Then he seemed to suggest that CNN and other networks are run by Jews: "I'm telling you that everybody who...

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