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Stewart: "It wasn't worth" sitting through all of Hannity's show to see his apology, "nothing's worth" that

November 12, 2009 11:37 pm ET

From the November 12 edition of Comedy Central's The Daily Show:

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    • Author by ReasonAndResolve (November 12, 2009 11:40 pm ET)
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      I feel the same way, John.
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      • Author by Bad News (November 12, 2009 11:52 pm ET)
           
        "Hannity the Mis-informer" Commentator in Disguise.
        Do you need proof? Just pay attention to Sean Hannity & his Lies.
        His Hatred of President Obama is slowly turning into a Mental Defect.
        Although Ollie North's Conviction was reversed, Treason is still something most Americans would Reject.

        Speak truth to power.


        Mr. News
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      • Author by eweston8542983 (November 13, 2009 12:07 am ET)
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        I feel a great empathy for that poor teddy bear.
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    • Author by DellDolly (November 13, 2009 12:20 am ET)
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      This is hilarious.

      Jon Stewart says they now have a literal manifestation of the gameplan of FoxNews' metaphorical methodology, which is the subtle altering of reality to sell a preconceived narrative.

      He says that FoxNews' motto should be --

      We Alter Reality.
      You are sold a preconceived narrative.

      And no, Sean, it wasn't an inadvertent mistake. No one in this day and age can pull a two year old snippet of the 9/12 rally, edit it into a video presentation about the Michelle Bachmann 'press conference' and claim that it's video from the rally that took place a week ago. It just can't happen.

      And in this same video, don't you know, we can see more lies about the H1N1 virus - somehow the US Government, which doesn't make the flu vaccine, is blamed for not making enough flu vaccine! If our government needs to be making flu vaccine right now, Sean (and you really think the govt should be doing this, Sean? Really?) then George Bush needed to start making building plans for this during his term, so the flawed administration would be the Bush Administration.
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      • Author by Midnight Kevin (November 13, 2009 1:47 am ET)
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        Capitalist businesses make the flu vaccine. Making enough to vaccinate everyone would be silly, because there will surely be waste considering not everyone will get it, and then there goes their profits. If they looked at their supply and demand curves, then they would understand a possibility why there isn't enough.

        Funny they want government to step in in supplying the vaccine (health care), but then want it to go away after the emergency is gone (9-11)...
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        • Author by scubafox (November 13, 2009 12:51 pm ET)
             
          The creation of vaccines is a prime example of why government *must* be involved. There are long delays in making vaccines and there's a lot of risk in making vaccines that might not be used. That's why the production of vaccines should not be a "profit-based" endeavor. It's a "free market" failure.
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      • Author by Ribelin2000 (November 13, 2009 5:05 am ET)
           
        "Two-year old snippet"?

        Don't you mean "two-month old snippet", DellDolly?
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    • Author by pam95650 (November 13, 2009 1:12 am ET)
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      I love Jon Stewart.
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    • Author by thundavolt (November 13, 2009 1:32 am ET)
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      I find it very hard to believe that they mixed up footage from earlier that day with footage from the same location a few months before. If that had been the case all the other crowd shots and the speeches should have been from 2 months ago.
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      • Author by mescal (November 13, 2009 2:01 am ET)
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        Yeah, especially since the dishonest footage of the earlier rally was shown for the sole purpose of demonstrating just how large Bachman's sparsely attended (though heavily promoted by Faux News) Super Bowl of Freedom fiasco was. You'll notice that none of the SPEECHES of the last teabagger event "inadvertently" showed up... just the longshot crown scenes.
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      • Author by Hebephrene (November 13, 2009 12:46 pm ET)
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        They didn't. Having produced television for 20 years it is not possible they didn't know what they were doing. Each shot selected comes with a date print, not only that any and all editors are paid to match footage, to decide when it should be cut in, the frame size etc so they of course would have noticed the different tree shades. The mechanics of assembling a shot aren't in any way shape or form accidental or inadvertent. More troubling to me is the attempt to minimalize (sp) the betrayal of public trust. AOL news refers to the situation as a flub or a video glitch and if you look at their message threads its fire breathing wing nut stuff about other people lying. Has anyone done any workups on AOL's attempts to be Fox?
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    • Author by Midnight Kevin (November 13, 2009 1:44 am ET)
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      Sooooo, John Stewart was right, but there was no mention about what... I did not watch Hannity, but I presume that he did not mention the footage, simply stating Stewart was right. Maybe it is safe to say that Hannity's audience had no idea what he was talking about, and so the lie continues...

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    • Author by Boxer1979 (November 13, 2009 8:11 am ET)
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      Stewart: "It wasn't worth worth" sitting through all of Hannity's show to see his apology, "nothing's worth" that

      AMEN!!!
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    • Author by dmcmass (November 13, 2009 9:02 am ET)
         
      Compare-and-contrast.

      Although I've seen the footage of the deception, the only thing I've been able to find showing the true crowd size is a photo in the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Pathetic

      http://www.startribune.com/galleries/69299352.html
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    • Author by pilotshark (November 13, 2009 9:50 am ET)
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      Love it>>> hannity thinking he was going to get the last shot in with his remark>>>>> LOL>>> I am sure Jon already had more then a few come backs knowing that sean will try something like that.

      good Jon
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    • Author by Welfare-Warfare State (November 13, 2009 10:12 am ET)
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      I'll be holding my breath waiting for Mr. Stewart to call the other major networks on their bias. It's funny that he would ridicule others for ideological purity when he is a card-carrying lefty. Does anyone really think that the Daily Show doesn't start and end with a working template? Or as his writers put it, a preconceived narrative. His program can be summed up thusly: collectivism/doubleplusgood free markets/doubleplusbad.

      As an aside, I think Hannity's show is obnoxious too. It would be nice if Jon and his team of comedy writers skewered the left as much as the right. His show is watchable though, even for a classical liberal like me.
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      • Author by rms (November 13, 2009 10:18 am ET)
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        "Does anyone really think that the Daily Show doesn't start and end with a working template?"

        Yes, that working template is to be satirical and funny. Hannity works for an alleged News channel.

        "I'll be holding my breath waiting for Mr. Stewart to call the other major networks on their bias."

        If they lie about a piece of videotape, I am sure he will.
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        • Author by John Paradox (November 13, 2009 10:29 am ET)
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          Considering that when TDS does a 'montage' of headlines about a subject, CNN and MSNBC are right in there, I don't see what Wackystate is griping about.
          Oh, that's right, WWS is a 'classical' liberal (WTF? I've know Classic Liberals, but 'classical'... speaking Latin or Greek?)
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      • Author by MickD (November 13, 2009 10:29 am ET)
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        He does skewer the left, albeit not as much as the right. But the f**king rightwads provide enough material for a 24/7 Daily Show.
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      • Author by steeve (November 13, 2009 10:40 am ET)
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        It's extremely hard to find comical blunders that favor liberals on the news. So hard that you can't even do it.
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      • Author by bintx (November 13, 2009 10:42 am ET)
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        Have you not seen him lambast CNN and MSNBC? I have on numerous occasions.

        Stewart and Colbert are SATIRE . . . comedy.

        Did you catch Stewart on the old "Crossfire" show on CNN where he blasted the media in general?

        Guess not.
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      • Author by bintx (November 13, 2009 10:43 am ET)
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        "classical liberal" . . . you mean you are a "neo-conservative"?????
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      • Author by New Frontier (November 13, 2009 10:46 am ET)
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        It would be nice if Jon and his team of comedy writers skewered the left as much as the right.

        It would be nice if Hannity skewered the right even 1/10 as much as the left.
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      • Author by pete592 (November 13, 2009 11:13 am ET)
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        "I'll be holding my breath waiting for Mr. Stewart to call the other major networks on their bias. [...] It would be nice if Jon and his team of comedy writers skewered the left as much as the right."
        I've seen Jon give other media sources and left wingers their fair share of skewering. Over the years, I've seen plenty of jabs at the Clintons, Al Gore, and even Obama. As far as media, Stewart has no control over the fact that Fock Snooze is an irresistible cornucopia of comedic material that practically writes itself.

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        • Author by Don Hussein Fabuloso (November 13, 2009 12:13 pm ET)
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          This seems to be a common mental block for wingnuts. The idea that bias is shown if a comedian sees more material in one group than in another.

          I watch the Daily Show on a pretty regular basis, and I think Stewart goes out of his way to find examples of incompetence or hypocrisy on the left. They're out there, just not in anywhere close to the volume of comedy provided by conservatives.

          I'm sure if welfarestate had any examples of a left-leaning tv personality doing anything as ridiculous as using phony video to promote a liberal event, they would have been provided. They weren't. Just more of the wingnut secret weapon, arguing by hallucination.
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      • Author by roundhouse (November 13, 2009 12:17 pm ET)
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        Your reality has been altered my friend, you've been sold a preconceived narrative of the left wing media.

        Stewart goes after every media outlet. Do you not recall the spat MSNBC had with him over that Mad Money guy? He gets after Dobbs, too. He makes fun of Brian Williams, Couric... all of them.


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      • Author by PurpleState (November 13, 2009 12:50 pm ET)
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        I think that Stewart starts out his skewering on both sides, but his comedy just comes more natural when the natural comedy of the right falls into his lap. He makes fun of the left and the right, but when the right does something laugh-out-loud incorrect, he's there to pick that up.
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      • Author by scubafox (November 13, 2009 1:02 pm ET)
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        To Welfare-Warfare State: Seriously now. There's enough material showing right-wing insanity that Stewart doesn't have to distort to fit some template. And it's a lie that he's pushing an "ideological purity" of "collectivism/doubleplusgood free markets/doubleplusbad". It's NOT "either-or"; it's "both-and". Sometimes collective approaches are absolutely necessary. That's what your "ideological purity" is unwilling to accept. See "Invisible Hand Drops Ball & Economics 101" http://www.exponentialimprovement.com/cms/invhanddrops.shtml .

        And Stewart is not the "left" ... that's those who want government to own and run all businesses. We never hear that in the media. Liberals, the center, understand that some things must be government-run or have government involvement and other things not. But we hear every day from the economic "right" that wants government destroyed and everything privatized.
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      • Author by mikehuck1976 (November 13, 2009 2:03 pm ET)
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        If you knew anything about the Daily Show you would know that they savage all media when they makes fools of themselves. You have merely demonstrated what a partisan you are once again. Try as you might, you cannot hide your stripes.
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      • Author by National_Insecurity (November 13, 2009 3:05 pm ET)
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        The evidence is you don't know what you're writing.
        I'll be holding my breath waiting for Mr. Stewart to call the other major networks..."
        ...suggests that you are now deceased from holding your breath. You meant to write, "I won't be holding my breath..."

        TDS has ridiculed Bill Moyers and the snorefest that is PBS NewsHour punditocracy. I recall Big Bird, Bert & Ernie got a jab a few years ago, and my recollection is Mr. Rogers was not treated fairly on TDS. My recall is probably as good as Dick Cheney's.
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      • Author by National_Insecurity (November 13, 2009 3:05 pm ET)
           
        The evidence is you don't know what you're writing.
        I'll be holding my breath waiting for Mr. Stewart to call the other major networks..."
        ...suggests that you are now deceased from holding your breath. You meant to write, "I won't be holding my breath..."

        TDS has ridiculed Bill Moyers and the snorefest that is PBS NewsHour punditocracy. I recall Big Bird, Bert & Ernie got a jab a few years ago, and my recollection is Mr. Rogers was not treated fairly on TDS. My recall is probably as good as Dick Cheney's.
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