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 )

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 )

Stewart Slams Lebanon Coverage

Staff / Truthdig Jul 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 )

Jon Stewart’s Sexual Bush-Merkel Joke Not So Outlandish Anymore…

Staff / Truthdig Jul 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 )

Stewart Makes a Prophetic Bush-Merkel Sexual Joke

Staff / Truthdig Jul 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 )

Stewart Rips Sean Hannity and Robert Novak

Staff / Truthdig Jul 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 )