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Jon Stewart made his first appearance on a Sunday morning political show, appearing on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace (incidentally one of the lowest rated Sunday morning shows; Meet the Press with David Gregory is the highest rated). During the course of his interview, Stewart said "Who are the most consistently misinformed media viewers? … Fox viewers, consistently, every poll." Turns out Stewart was wrong according to Politifact (a website that checks politicians/ electoral candidates' statements, but also will analyze media coverage of specific news stories). While it was true that in two surveys, Fox News viewers were the least informed and in some others "merely near the bottom," but Politifact noted that on some specific news stories-- Fox News viewers viewers were occasionally more informed that Daily Show viewers (but not other media outlets). So ultimately, Politifact declared Stewart's statement "False." Stewart made a public apology, saying it would be highly irresponsible not to issue a correction in good faith.
Stewart then spent part of his latest program pointing out PolitiFact has found questionable several statements aired by the Fox News Channel — including two PolitiFact National lies of the year and a 2010 Pants-on-Fire statement about banishing Christmas from Texas textbooks. Stewart termed his survey the ascent of Mount Fib. As Stewart listed each item, a motion graphic appeared under him, with the list eventually became so long it crowded his face out of the camera shot.
Less than 10 percent of President Obama's cabinet has worked in private sector jobs - Glenn Beck. FALSE.
White House political director was once right-hand man to Acorn. FALSE.
Texas Board of Education planned to removed references to Christmas and the United States constitution from text books FALSE.
Health care reform is a government take-over of health care. FALSE.
Muslim brotherhood wants to declare war on Israel (Glenn Beck). FALSE.
American troops have never been under the formal control of another nation (Karl Rove) FALSE.
Republican Florida governor Rick Scott's approval ratings are up. FALSE.
Massachusett's health care plan is 'widely unpopular' among state residents (Laura Ingraham). FALSE.
There has been more debt under President Obama than all other presidents combined (Sarah Palin). FALSE.
Health care bill includes death panels (Sarah Palin). FALSE.
Cash for clunkers program will give government access to your personal computer (Glenn Beck). FALSE.
Halting oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico will cost 8 billion a day (Sarah Palin). FALSE.
Democrats are planning the largest tax increase in the history of the United States (Sarah Palin).
United States Attorney General Eric Holder dismissed charges against Black Panthers (Bill O'Reilly). FALSE.
Senator Obama voted "present" quite often while in Congress. FALSE.
President Obama's science czar proposed forced abortions and sterilization drugs in drinking water (Glenn Beck). FALSE.
Andy Stein, labor union president, is most frequent White House visitor (Glenn Beck). FALSE.
America is the only country in the world that grants full citizenship on birth. FALSE.
Bill O'Reilly never called George Tiller a baby-killer, only reported what others said about him. FALSE.
Only Fox News covered Anita Dunn's admiration of Mao (Bill O'Reilly). FALSE.
No one at Fox News suggested you could face jail time if you didn't buy health insurance (Bill O'Reilly). FALSE.
I also thought after seeing the Stewart interview with Chris Wallace (1.) he's incredibly fast on his feet in interviews (2.) One of the most talented comic wits in the league of Mort Sahl, or Lenny Bruce or even George Carlin. (3.) Has arrived at his stated goal of aspiring to be like Mark Twain and Will Rodgers (4.) Stewart's comment's on how movement conservatives can't and will never understand that political ideology isn't the only thing that motivates everyone else ("Hollywood, the press") unlike conservatives -- which is why Chris Wallace will never "get" Stewart.
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Date: 22/6/11 22:32 (UTC)Oh I also listen to the Jerry Doyle (Conservative/libertarian talk show host who used to play Security Chief Garibaldi on Babylon 5) show on the radio when I'm driving home sometimes, but since it's only a 15 minute drive I don't catch much of it.
Outside of that I follow stories that if find interesting on one of those sites or through here or that someone I know posts/forwards to me and read widely on them trying to find opinions and views from all over the political spectrum.
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Date: 22/6/11 22:43 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 22/6/11 23:24 (UTC)He's got a little bit of the goldbug impending financial doom aspect of Beck but otherwise his show is pretty good and being Jerry Doyle is entertaining as hell.
Interestingly one of his main fill ins for days off is Dwight Schultz aka Murdock from the A-Team and Lt Reginald Barclay from Star Trek (TNG and Voyager)
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Date: 22/6/11 22:46 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 22/6/11 23:20 (UTC)His argument is not racist in the least, it is Culturalist (if that wasn't a word it is one now) because he was not criticizing the urban thugs because of the color of their skin but rather because of the culture they chose to adopt.
It should be noted that one would be hard pressed to call someone whose preferred Presidential Candidate is an African American (Hermain Cain) someone who believes in the inherent superiority of one race over another.
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Date: 23/6/11 03:40 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 23/6/11 18:28 (UTC)A call for people to stand up and defend themselves from violent attackers and killing said attackers in the process is irresponsible?
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Date: 24/6/11 04:12 (UTC)Goes way beyond a call for people to defend themselves. Littering the landscape and thinning the herd, yo.
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Date: 24/6/11 04:15 (UTC)"This town is starting to look like a garbage heap. And we got too damn many urban thugs, yo, ruining the quality of life for everybody. And I'll tell you what it's gonna take. You people, you are - you need to have a gun. You need to have training. You need to know how to use that gun. You need to get a permit to carry that gun. And you do in fact need to carry that gun, and we need to see some dead thugs littering the landscape in Atlanta. We need to see the next guy that tries to carjack you shot dead right where he stands. We need more dead thugs in this city."
Right there he is clarifying the conditions under which he things thugs need to be shot, in the middle of committing a violent crime.
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Date: 23/6/11 16:03 (UTC)He was just saying we should openly murder "urban thugs". And you know what "urban" thugs he means, yo! PS- Yo!
Nothing wrong or coded about that!
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Date: 23/6/11 18:30 (UTC)It was pretty clearly a call for people to use deadly force to protect their persons and property from violent criminals, not to randomly murder people in the street.
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