Staff / TruthdigJul 19, 2006
"The Daily Show" host offers a roundup of Lebanon reporting and confronts the media's seeming inability to process the crisis. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJul 18, 2006
On last night's "Daily Show," Jon Stewart joked that we were lucky Bush's "open mike" didn't pick him up "pointing out some Merkel camel toe," a lewd sexual reference to German Chancellor Angela Merkel. However, in light of Bush's just publicized unsolicited massage of Merkel, Stewart is looking prophetic all of a sudden. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJul 18, 2006
"The Daily Show" host was just being playful last night when he joked that President Bush could have been caught on the open mike talking about German Chancellor Angela Merkel's "camel toe" (a lewd sexual reference). But in light of the just-publicized unsolicited massage Bush gave to Merkel, Stewart is looking prophetic all of a sudden. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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Staff / TruthdigJul 14, 2006
"The Daily Show" host pointed out the hypocrisy in Sean Hannity's double standard on the ethics of leaking classified information, and slammed Robert Novak for making light of destroying CIA agent Valerie Plame's career. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJul 13, 2006
"The Daily Shows" host tees off on Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Stevens' instantly infamous speech about Net Neutrality--which Stewart likened to "something you'd hear from a crazy old man in an airport bar at 3 a.m." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJun 28, 2006
Markos gets a huge laugh out of Sen. Lieberman's response to challenger Ned Lamont's latest campaign ad. (The ad Kos links to -- which The Hotline called potentially "legendary" -- is a must-see.) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJun 28, 2006
The "Daily Show" host wonders how seven evildoers could wage what the attorney general termed a "full ground war against the United States." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJun 14, 2006
The chairman of the Republican National Committee did a surprisingly good job ducking and parrying the jabs that the "Daily Show" host launched at him over the Bush administration's record of lies and deceit. (Stewart got in a few zingers, but Mehlman is as good as they come.) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJun 7, 2006
The "Daily Show" host revealed conservative author Bill Bennett as being intellectually bankrupt in his opposition to gay marriage. (Satisfying: Bennett acknowledged that his side has lost the debate.) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMay 26, 2006
During his May 23 show, Bill O'Reilly claimed that many young Americans have "no idea what's going on," stating that they get their news from Jon Stewart. Problem is, studies show that Stewart's viewers are better informed than most other media consumers -- considerably better than viewers of "The O'Reilly Factor." Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMay 19, 2006
"The Daily Show" host drops rhetorical bomb after bomb on Ramesh Ponnuru, whose book "The Party of Death" argues against abortion rights. Our favorite: Stewarts' comparison of collateral damage in Iraq and in abortions. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMay 17, 2006
"The Daily Show" host tees off on the recent report of the NSA's phone call database. "It turns out that there was one specific type of domestic call the government was keeping tabs on. All of them." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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