Jon Stewart Shows How Fox News & The RNC Are Joined At Hip, Separated At Birth
(Source: newshounds.us)
God, I love this man. I’ve been to his show twice and not only is he hilarious, but one of the smartest people I’ve come across. Always spot on.
Jon Stewart on Newt Gingrich’s plan to put a base on the moon:
”(Gingrich) realized the earth is very sick; now he wants to leave it for a younger planet.” BOOM!!!
~ Steven Watson
Jon Stewart: “So Congress created a bureau to protect consumers’ financial interests in 2010 and now the president is, not two years later, hiring someone to run it… How is filling a position that Congress created an ‘arrogant,’ ‘lawless,’ and ‘banana republic abuse of power?’ That’s use of power!”
Jon Stewart: Barney Frank Is The ‘Everything Bagel’ Of Things [Right-wingers] Hate
“Losing Barney Frank is the worst thing that could happen to [right-wingers],” Stewart said. “He is the perfect avatar of everything they hate: gay, Jewish, ‘tax-achusetts,’ arrogant, condescending, liberal. He’s your everything bagel.”
Stewart rips Fox News over ‘class warfare’ hysteria
Personalities at the [right-wing Fox “News”] network have been outraged this week at Warren Buffett’s suggestion that tax rates should be raised by five percent on Americans making over $250,000.
Fox News host Eric Bolling has even called Buffett “completely a socialist.”
“You really have no fucking clue what socialism is, do you?” Stewart wondered.
Jon Stewart calls Megyn Kelly out on her hypocrisy regarding maternity leave and benefits.
Jon, I want to blow you.
Megyn Kelly: Typical right-wing hypocrite. — Ryking
Jon Stewart, ripping Faux News a new asshole. Video at the link.
Stewart, very much in the vein of my prior post, went on the air with Fox’s Chris Wallace and stated, “Who are the most consistently misinformed media viewers? The most consistently misinformed? Fox, Fox viewers, consistently, every poll.”
My research, and my recent post, most emphatically supports this statement. Indeed, I cited five (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) separate public opinion studies in support of it—although I carefully noted that these studies do not prove causation (e.g., that watching Fox News causes one to be more misinformed). The causal arrow could very well run the other way—believing wrong things could make one more likely to watch Fox News in the first place.
But the fundamental point is, when it comes to believing political misinformation and watching Fox News, I know of no other studies than these five—though I’d be glad to see additional studies produced. Until then, these five all point in one obvious direction.
“Every poll,” to quote Stewart.
Politifact wasn’t even aware of the studies I’ve cited. Instead, the site’s attempt to debunk Stewart largely relied on misunderstanding what he meant.
Jon Stewart 1, Politifact 0: Fox News Viewers Are The Most Misinformed
Fact-Checking the Fact-Checkers
The problem with Politfact’s work on this is that they’re really comparing apples and oranges. The Pew studies measured viewers’ knowledge of certain basic matters that no one is actually suggesting Fox News misinforms its viewers on. No one is arguing that Fox News misleads its audience about which party controls Congress, what volcano erupted last week, or whether John Bolton’s mustache is secretary of state. Jane Hamsher had a good response to this, pointing out that being “misinformed” and “ill-informed” are not the same thing. An avid watcher of Fox News would likely be able to identify the speaker of the House or the attorney general, but they’re also far more likely to think the president was born in Kenya. Put another way, someone who erroneously believes that the Civil War was fought over “states’ rights” and not slavery would still likely know which side of the war Robert E. Lee fought on.
Responding to PolitiFact, Stewart reads laundry list of Fox News lies
When comedian Jon Stewart told Fox News host Chris Wallace that Fox News viewers are the “most consistently misinformed” in “every poll,” he may have let his rhetoric run away from him, just a little — and he got fact checked by PolitiFact, which called his allegation “false.”
On Tuesday night’s show, Stewart apologized and corrected the statement, then turned around a laundry list of Fox News lies and PolitiFact’s ratings.
“Well, I tell ya what … They’ve got a lot of fucking correcting to do,” he concluded.
