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Jon Stewart Charts Cable News' Hyperbolic Reactions to the Wisconsin Recount
Matt Toder · 06/06/12 10:30PMAs the results from last night's recall in Wisconsin came rolling in, the reaction on cable news outlets became more and more extreme. On tonight's Daily Show, Jon Stewart charted the reactions: the gloating on Fox News and the stages of grief on MSNBC.
Roger Ailes Doesn't Want Your Stinking Money
John Cook · 06/01/12 10:30AMVindictive troll Roger Ailes, who—when he's not busy using corporate security to tail his employees, calling local cops to fish his keys out of his locked car, or overseeing the production of political attack ads disguised as news programming—owns a pair of small-town newspapers in rural Putnam County, N.Y., is an absolute master at real-time reflexive paranoid hysteria. For instance, if you write things about those small-town papers that he doesn't like, he will go through the subscriber rolls, find your name, and cancel your subscription. Attention to detail!
Fox News Producer Who Created Obama Attack Ad May Be Out of Two Jobs (UPDATE)
Neetzan Zimmerman · 06/01/12 08:52AMFox News Is Now Producing Its Own Anti-Obama Attack Ads
John Cook · 05/30/12 03:34PMThis morning on Fox & Friends, Fox News aired a straight-up, unadulterated four-minute attack ad mocking Obama's "Hope and Change" message and cataloguing the purported failures of his administration, complete with ominous music, depressing charts, and voiceover audio of Mitt Romney attacking him. Not someone else's ad, mind you—this was actually an in-house production of Fox News, involving weeks of work by a Fox staffer.
Jon Stewart Returns From Vacation and Attacks the Right's Hypocritical Stance on Socialism
Matt Toder · 05/29/12 10:41PMSocialism 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.
In Calling New York Times 'Lying Scum,' Roger Ailes Tells Absolute 100% Total Bald-Faced Lie
John Cook · 05/29/12 10:00AMFat dick Roger Ailes, who runs Fox News channel when he's not busy spying on his employees, threatening old men, or trying to destroy people who take photographs of his bathrooms, made some waves last week when he called the New York Times "lying scum" for writing about him. What made fewer waves was the fact that the thing that had him so exercised about the Times never happened, and his accusation was itself a lie.
Jon Stewart Examines the Right's Evolving Viewpoint on Same Sex Marriage
Matt Toder · 05/10/12 10:34PMOn 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.
Manhattan DA Refuses to Disclose Contacts With Roger Ailes or Fox News
John Cook · 05/08/12 04:16PMIn the wake of the New York County District Attorney's decision last month to launch a criminal investigation into Joe Muto, a.k.a. the Fox Mole, for the alleged theft of videos from his former employer Fox News, we thought it would be worthwhile to find out what we could about what relationship, if any, exists between the DA's office and Roger Ailes' operation. So we used New York's Freedom of Information Law to ask for correspondence and emails between Fox News employees and staffers in the DA's office. Today they refused our request.
A Low Six-Figure Book Deal for the Fox Mole
John Cook · 05/03/12 05:32PMStephen Colbert Endorses Fox News' Hysterical Reaction to Obama's Late Night Appearance
Matt Toder · 04/26/12 10:58PMOn Tuesday night, President Obama appeared on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon to slow jam the news and, according to Fox News, pander to the youth vote that he desperately needs to win another term. On tonight's Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert took a close look at Fox News' reaction to President Obama's appearance which, naturally, they weren't too wild about.
Watch Stephen Colbert's Sharp Takedown of Fox News' Steve Doocy
Matt Toder · 04/23/12 11:12PMIt isn't necessarily news that Fox News' Steve Doocy has taken a quote from President Obama completely out of context but a recent example caught the eye and ire of Stephen Colbert. On tonight's Colbert Report, Colbert took Doocy to task for putting words in the President's mouth and reduced his journalistic integrity to rubble.
ICYMI: The Simpsons Celebrate 25 Years of Fox by Making Fun of Fox News
Neetzan Zimmerman · 04/23/12 10:33AMNever ones to let an opportunity to knock Fox News pass them by, The Simpsons' producers semi-surreptitiously inserted the above title card into the closing credits of the show's pilot episode, "Simpsons Roasting on a Open Fire," which reran last night as part of a night of programming honoring the Fox Network's 25 years on the air.
Jon Stewart Details Fox News' About Face on Romney
Matt Toder · 04/19/12 10:48PMThe 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.
Stephen Colbert and Fox News Agree: No Matter What Went Wrong, It's Obama's Fault
Matt Toder · 04/17/12 11:11PMOn tonight's Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert was shocked - shocked! - by the GSA's massive spending and he wasn't alone. Fox News was also outraged and they knew just where to place the blame.
Jon Stewart Breaks Down Fox News' Response to Hilary Rosen's Comments About Moms
Matt Toder · 04/16/12 10:35PMBy 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.
Here's a Picture of Bill O'Reilly With a Topless Woman Along With the Fox News Legal Threat Meant to Quash It
John Cook · 04/12/12 03:21PMHey, look what just came in through the Gawker mailbag from the good people at Epstein Becker & Green P.C.: "Gawker should immediately stop publishing information and videos that have been unlawfully obtained by or from Joe Muto, and return them to Fox News." I'm pretty sure they're referring to this, this, this, and this. Or at the very least, they're talking about this photo of Bill O'Reilly frolicking with his bros and some half-naked lady. We'll explain where it came from later.
Jon Stewart Weighs In on Fox News' Reaction to NBC's Manipulation of George Zimmerman's 911 Call
Matt Toder · 04/09/12 10:35PMWhen 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.
'All the Bloviating in the World Won't Matter:' This Week in Hate-Watching Bill O'Reilly
Matt Toder · 04/07/12 08:55AMMitt Romney's nomination is all but decided at this point and Bill O'Reilly has moved his show's narrative ahead to the general election. During the week on the O'Reilly Factor, he made the point that only the debates will really matter and that the rest of it is just "bloviating." Does that mean he'll tone down the rhetoric at all? Of course not.
Secret Video: Newt Gingrich's Creepy Wife Grooming Him Like a Circus Walrus
John Cook · 03/28/12 10:45AMAs John Edwards learned the hard way, the camera is always on. It was certainly on in the bowels of Fox News' dark tower last November as failed presidential candidate Newt Gingrich's icy wife-bot Callista prepared him for an interview with Bill O'Reilly. She brushed him like a horse, sprayed him like Cher, and locked down his hair with dead-eyed precision. Then O'Reilly said he looked like Justin Bieber. Burn.