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Was Lara Logan's Bravery Dangerous Bravado?
By Bonnie Goldstein - Politics DailyThere are risks to being an uppity woman. The down side of being a role model is that women who act like they own the place inevitably tick people off as much as they inspire. Lara Logan, the glamorous and seemingly fearless CBS Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent who was attacked last Friday in Cairo during the moments of chaos following President Hosni Mubarak's resignation, is the kind of woman who gets noticed. She has one of the hardest and most prestigious jobs in journalism and she got it in spite of, or because of, a habit of saying and doing whatever she wanted to. I don't know ...
9/11 Health Bill: Who Deserves More Credit, Jon Stewart or Shep Smith?
By Nathaniel Jones - AOL NewsGiving government health benefits to the 9/11 first responders may have seemed like a no-brainer to everyone from Barack Obama to Rudy Giuliani, but it took the efforts of two talking heads to push it through Congress. After months of debate, one compromise that included billions of dollars in benefits cuts and one extended act of public shaming for the opposition, the Senate unanimously passed a $4 billion bill giving health benefits to 9/11 workers today. In part, the public shaming of Republican members of Congress by Comedy Central's Jon Stewart and Fox News' Shepard Smith can be ...
Funny Signs at Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert's Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear
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Obama on 'The Daily Show' -- or Was It 'House of Wax'?
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Jon Stewart Secures Permit for Rally; Sheryl Crow and Jeff Tweedy to Sing
By David Knowles - AOL News(Oct. 27) -- With just days remaining before tens of thousands of Americans plan to flock to Washington, D.C., to rally in support of their television heroes, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert picked up a last-minute item to ensure that the event will go smoothly: a permit to hold it. On Wednesday afternoon, the National Park Service formally issued the Comedy Central hosts the piece of paper certifying that their dueling Oct. 30 events -- "Rally to Restore Sanity" and "March to Keep Fear Alive" -- have been officially sanctioned, The Wall Street Journal reported. While Comedy Central noted ...
Obama on 'The Daily Show': White House Says It's About Politics, Not Comedy
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyMarking the first time a sitting president has appeared on "The Daily Show," on Wednesday evening President Obama will sit down with host Jon Stewart at the Harman Center for the Arts in Washington to tape an episode of the popular Comedy Central show. (The interview will air later, at 11 p.m.) It's not the first time the president has appeared on a non-traditional, entertainment-focused program: Earlier this summer he appeared on the female-oriented talk show "The View," discussing -- among other things -- Lindsay Lohan, Snooki, and the war in Iraq. On Tuesday, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs ...
Jon Stewart: Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin Are Not Our Enemies
By Matt Lewis - Politics Daily"Daily Show" host Jon Stewart sat down recently with Terry Gross, host of NPR's "Fresh Air," in front of a live New York City audience. Stewart, the popular liberal comedian and satirist, made a point about political civility, which I think deserves attention. When asked about his criticism of the radical Muslims who made death threats against the creators of "South Park," Stewart said: There's a difference between disagreeing with people, like newscasters on Fox News that I think are incorrect in their analysis of the days events, and people that threaten to kill you for putting a cartoon ...
Rick Sanchez and the All-Time-Greatest Jon Stewart Apologies [VIDEO]
By David Knowles - AOL News(Oct. 6) -- That wasn't so hard, was it? On Wednesday, former CNN anchor Rick Sanchez issued a formal apology to Comedy Central's Jon Stewart for calling "The Daily Show" host a bigot and implying that Jews control the media. "On October 4th, I had a very good conversation with Jon Stewart," Sanchez's statement began, "and I had the opportunity to apologize for my inartful comments from last week. I sincerely extend this apology to anyone else whom I may have offended." Sanchez, however, is by no means the first news personality to offer the fake newsman such a gesture. Surge Desk travels ...
Is Jon Stewart Good for the GOP?
By David Corn - Politics DailyIs Jon Stewart good for the Republicans? Anyone who doesn't live in a house with rotary phones and no cable knows that the host of "The Daily Show" is organizing a Rally to Restore Sanity in Washington, D.C. on Oct. 30. (The day before Halloween -- a coincidence? I think not.) Stewart's battle cry is simple: "We're looking for the people who think shouting is annoying, counterproductive, and terrible for your throat; who feel that the loudest voices shouldn't be the only ones that get heard." Though he doesn't call it such, this demonstration is a response to angry Tea Party gatherings of the ...
Kernel of Truthiness Behind Rick Sanchez's Ugly Rant
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No, not the anti-Semitic part, no word of which deserves defending. But there is a sad, circular pattern to the bigotry that Sanchez obviously experienced and was scarred by, embittered to the point that even as a successful cable anchor, it escaped his lips one day and blew up his career. That's why racism, and every form of discrimination, is so insidious: It can make you crazy, and is very, very hard to make a clean break from. ...
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