Weekly Video Roundup

Staff / Truthdig Aug 12, 2006 Check out the best of this week's Truthdig-flavored videos. Among them: Scottish MP George Galloway ripping into a Sky News anchor; a 1960s TV reporter sounding off on the threat of sexual perversion; and antiwar vet Paul Hackett showing up Stephen Colbert. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Stewart Skewers Joe ?Loserman?

Staff / Truthdig Aug 10, 2006 The "Daily Show" opened Wednesday with coverage of Ned Lamont?s victory over the man Jon Stewart referred to as ?Joe Loserman.? After playing a clip of Lieberman?s concession speech where the senator said the game was only half over, and the Lamont team was just ahead, Stewart shot back, ?Perhaps I could, uh, offer my own, uh, sports comparison, if you will. There was a game, and you lost.? Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Stewart Quizzes Brian Williams Over Lebanon, Katie Couric

Staff / Truthdig Aug 10, 2006 "The Daily Show" host asked the NBC newsman, just back from Lebanon, whether anything there seemed manufactured for show. Williams' story about Hezbollah rockets put that to rest. The two also sparred over CBS' Katie Couric, who will soon be nipping at Williams' heels. Transcript (with link to video) Video Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Stewart Nails Condi on ‘Hypothetical’ Hypocrisy

Staff / Truthdig Aug 9, 2006 Jon Stewart presided over a mock game show on Tuesday, during which he played highlights of Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleezza Rice and Alberto Gonzales contradicting themselves and refusing to answer the simplest of questions. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Truthdig Weekly Video Roundup

Staff / Truthdig Aug 5, 2006 Check out a collection of the best Truthdig-flavored video clips of the past week Featuring: Hillary Clinton's smack-down of Donald Rumsfeld; Jon Stewart on Mel Gibson media coverage; a head-banging Ted Stevens music video, and more . Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

‘Daily Show’: Rapture Watch 2006

Staff / Truthdig Aug 4, 2006 Jon Stewart had a roundup Thursday of a bizarre recent trend: Armageddon ?news? coverage. Behold this montage of shame, in which every TV news outlet from ?Good Morning America? to MSNBC seemed to make an appearance. CNN, in its quest for fact, checked something called a ?rapture index,? while Fox News demanded a rapture timetable, prompting Stewart to comment, ?That?s the timetable Fox News is demanding we have." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Stewart to President: ?I Give Up. You?re F—ing Insane?

Staff / Truthdig Aug 3, 2006 After Tony Snow announced the results of Bush?s recent physical, "The Daily Show? host seized the opportunity to mock the president?s weight gain. But when Bush, in a speech, began talking about eating crabs with the 1972 Miami Dolphins, Stewart decided that the president had, finally, gone off the deep end. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Jon Stewart’s Plan for Peace in the Middle East

Staff / Truthdig Aug 2, 2006 During an interview with Vali Nasr on Tuesday, "The Daily Show" host grew frustrated with the increasing violence in the Middle East and offered his own plan for peace in the region. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Rob Courdry Takes On Hamas Summer Camp

Staff / Truthdig Aug 1, 2006 "Daily Show" correspondent Rob Courdry shines a biting satirical spotlight on the terrorist group Hamas' summer camp in Gaza, where "Palestinian children gather in mosques for religious education and paramilitary training" Apparently, for Gaza children with special needs, there's also a religious education and paramilitary training fat camp Read the S Chronicle story behind this satire. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Sen. Stevens Open to ‘Daily Show’ Appearance

Staff / Truthdig Jul 28, 2006 The Alaska senator whom Jon Stewart (and much of the world) has mocked mercilessly for his infamous "series of tubes" diatribe on Internet fundamentals, says he'd consider appearing on "The Daily Show" to defend himself Stewart has yet to extend the offer . Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Stewart Straight-Talks McCain on Iraq

Staff / Truthdig Jul 25, 2006 The "Daily Show" host tells the Arizona senator, "President Bush has been very clear that through his leadership, he made the world safer My question to you is this: How much safer can we afford to have him make us?" When McCain wouldn't answer straight, Stewart chided him, saying, "Don't dodge the question" . Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Culture of Hypocrisy

Staff / Truthdig Jul 21, 2006 "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart seized upon Bush's stem cell veto to explore the president's "culture of life" inconsistencies. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )