On tonight's Daily Show, Jon Stewart was given a gift from the comedy gods: the re-emergence of Donald Trump and his birther claims. Trump and his ridiculousness is truly a gift that just keeps giving.
Socialism has become an often used epithet by Fox News types when needing to bash Obama. As Jon Stewart points out on tonight's Daily Show, there's just a wee bit of hypocrisy in these attacks as many people on the right, Mitt Romney especially, have espoused socialist views, just about different things.
On tonight's Daily Show, Jon Stewart continued to examine the ramifications of President Obama's statement about same sex marriage by looking at Fox News' response. He looked specifically at the ways that response has evolved over the years from same sex marriage as first step in bestiality to same sex marriage as political posturing to the majority.
On tonight's Daily Show, Jon Stewart delved into the concept of cognitive dissonance specifically in relation to the right and their inability to give President Obama credit for anything, even ordering the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound. Sure they agree with the result, but it's the bragging and the ease of the decision that keep them criticizing Obama.
The past weekend's pivotal elections in France and Greece will make some definite waves in Europe. On tonight's Daily Show, Jon Stewart recapped the events and pondered a few lingering questions that just beg to be answered.
The Family Research Council, the stringently anti-gay group that just won't go away, has a new target: the makers of Mike and Ike candy who are breaking up, according to the FRC, as part of a gay divorce plot line. On tonight's Daily Show, Jon Stewart took a stab at understanding why these people see gayness wherever they look.
On tonight's Daily Show, Jon Stewart caught up on the various government inquiries into Rupert Murdoch in the wake of the hacking scandal that caused him to shut down the News of the World. The story's various highlights - the hacking, the prime ministers hanging out with Murdoch on fancy yachts in Greece, the total rejection of any culpability - put this right in Stewart's wheelhouse.
Now that the GOP primary season is finally over, Mitt Romney has rebooted his campaign like so many superhero movies. On tonight's Daily Show, Jon Stewart dipped his toe into the new general election and he found it wanting. Wanting for material that is.
In the wake of the hooker scandal that keeps getting worse for the Secret Service, some have been positing that if the Secret Service had more female agents this never would have happened. On tonight's Daily Show, Jon Stewart and correspondent Samantha Bee put that idea to the test.
On tonight's Daily Show, Jon Stewart took a look at how none of the top GOP party members want to be Mitt Romney's vice presidential nominee. Instead, they keep suggesting each other and excusing themselves like the nomination is a game of hot potato.
The pundits over at Fox News spent most of the GOP primary season talking about how Mitt Romney wasn't conservative enough to win the nomination and now that he has all but won it, they've had to drastically change their tune. On tonight's Daily Show, Jon Stewart called out three pundits in particular and also unveiled a killer Dick Morris impression.
Now that the GOP primary is all but over and Mitt Romney a virtual lock for the nomination, the media has switched into general election mode. On tonight's Daily Show, Jon Stewart examined one of the most important questions being asked so far: is Romney funnier than Obama?
In order to make sure that the Buffett Rule, which would increase taxes on incomes over a million dollars, wouldn't pass, the GOP filibustered it. Their main reason was that $4.7B this would generate simply isn't enough to make the tax worthwhile. As Jon Stewart pointed out on tonight's Daily Show, that stance doesn't quite gel with the GOP's take on money for Planned Parenthood, which, while significantly less than $4.7B, is too much to for the government to be spending.
By now everyone is familiar with the comments Hilary Rosen made last week wherein she said that Ann Romney had never had a job in her life. On tonight's Daily Show, Jon Stewart took stock of Fox News' strong response.
Now that George Zimmerman has been charged with the murder of Trayvon Martin, Jon Stewart has begun preparing himself for the full on media insanity that is about to come our way. Consider tonight's Daily Show a warning worth heeding, because things are about to get even crazier.
Now that Rick Santorum has dropped out and Newt Gingrich can't afford to be on the ballot in certain states, it seems that the Romney vs. Obama general election match up is all set. To kick off their coverage, the Daily Show placed correspondents at Romney and Obama headquarters to survey where each candidate stands at the start of the main event. Turns out, they're in basically the same place.
On tonight's Daily Show, Jon Stewart recapped two big tech stories that recently broke: Google's announcement about their Google Glasses product and Facebook buying Instagram for one billion dollars. Stewart doesn't quite get any of it - to him, Google Glasses are unnecessary and Instagram ruins pictures. He's not necessarily wrong, but he is definitely old.
When it came to light last week that NBC had edited the content of George Zimmerman's 911 call the night he killed Trayvon Martin - an edit which strongly implied a racial bias via an excised question - Fox News went into full on outrage mode. On tonight's Daily Show, Jon Stewart took a survey of their coverage and found it came up quite short, especially when they claimed some sort of righteous adherence to the truth.
Jon Stewart gets a lot of emails from President Obama, as many people do, and he's kind of had it with them. As explained on tonight's Daily Show, everything is wrong with them and the overly friendly subject lines and the constant asking for money can snowball kind of quickly into something else entirely.
