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The Facebook-Goldman Sachs Deal and 5 Other Jon Stewart Targets [VIDEO]
By Torie Bosch - AOL NewsOn "The Daily Show" Thursday night, Jon Stewart turned his witty wrath on Goldman Sachs and Facebook for their recent business deal, in which Goldman Sachs and a Russian company invested $500 million in the social-networking behemoth. Stewart's problem with the deal: Facebook and Goldman Sachs seem to be trying to avoid disclosing financial details to the Securities and Exchange Commission. The financial trickery has Stewart fuming: "Mark Zuckerberg doesn't want to be transparent. The guy whose success was founded on mining our personal data. The guy who shares my photos with the whole world ...
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 ...
Obama on 'The Daily Show' -- or Was It 'House of Wax'?
By Robert and Donna Trussell - Politics DailyFollow the Trussell cartoons on Twitter at ChaosTheoryPD ...
As 'Rally to Restore Sanity' Nears, Jon Stewart Faces Criticism
By David Knowles - AOL News(Oct. 25) -- Should "fake news" know its place? Days before Comedy Central's Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert will host dueling rallies on the Washington Mall on Oct. 30, a handful of commentators is questioning whether the comedic duo have gone too far by merging their small-screen antics into bona fide political activism. With over 200,000 people saying they plan to attend Stewart's "Rally to Restore Sanity," another 16,000 opting to attend Colbert's "March to Keep Fear Alive" and thousands more to signal their approval at satellite gatherings around the country, the spectacle of an event ...
Rick Sanchez Returns to Twitter, Goes for a Jog
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Oct. 25) -- Welcome back to Twitter, Rick Sanchez. The former CNN correspondent who was fired from the cable-news network after calling "Daily Show" host John Stewart a bigot returned following a three-week hiatus from the micro-blogging site. Twitter excerpts were a common feature on Sanchez's "Rick's List" program on CNN before the Stewart incident. Sanchez apologized afterward, and he and Stewart have reportedly buried the hatchet. On Oct. 20, Sanchez broke his Twitter silence that began Sept. 30 with the following notice: .bbpBox27975841852 ...
Jon Stewart's 'Rally to Restore Sanity' Is Coming to a Town Near You
By David Knowles - AOL News
(Oct. 12) -- They're not mad as hell, and they plan to politely let you know about it at even-tempered gatherings across the country. As the official date, Oct. 30, for Jon Stewart's "Rally to Restore Sanity" approaches, plans for dozens of independent satellite events are springing up around the nation for people who share the event's aims but won't be able to travel all the way to Washington, D.C., to participate in it there. Jason Kempin, Getty Images Jon Stewart's "Rally to Restore Sanity," set for Oct. 30, has sparked plans for similar gatherings across the country. Since he first ...
Sanchez, Stewart Reportedly Bury the Hatchet
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News
(Oct. 5) -- Fired CNN anchor Rick Sanchez appears to have apologized to Jon Stewart for calling him a bigot during a rant about Jews' minority status and media influence in a radio interview last week that cost him his job. That's according to his wife's Facebook page, where she wrote in a status update Monday that Sanchez apologized to Stewart, host of "The Daily Show," and that the two "had a good talk." "jon was gracious and called rick, 'thin-skinned.' he's right," Suzanne Sanchez wrote. "rick feels horrible that in an effort to make a broader point about the media, his exhaustion from ...
Hard To See Rick Sanchez as a Victim of Discrimination
By Jeffrey Weiss - Politics DailyWith all due respect to my boss, Melinda Henneberger, I'm not going to see the fall of Rick Sanchez as anything more than one guy who finally tripped one too many times on his own words. To recap: CNN anchor Sanchez was promoting his new book last week (titled -- and who could make this up?-- "Conventional Idiocy") on a Sirius/XM radio show. In the process he managed to insult "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart and suggest that the media -- including his bosses -- are controlled by Jews who have no sensitivity to the pains that someone like Sanchez has had to endure. Less than a day later, ...
Jon Stewart Announces DC 'Rally to Restore Sanity'
By not in system - AOL News(Sept. 17) -- 'Daily Show' host Jon Stewart announced Thursday that he'll lead a rally on Washington that aims to encourage angry citizens on both sides to take it down a notch, or in his words, "stop shouting, throwing and drawing Hitler mustaches on people other than Hitler." The event has been dubbed the 'Rally to Restore Sanity' and will be held on the National Mall on Oct. 30. "It's real," he told the maybe-thinking-he-was-joking audience. "We are gonna do this." ...
Jon Stewart and 'The Daily Show': They're Just Not That Into Lame Female Comics
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyMeritocracies are brutal. You should know, since you yourself practiced a kind of meritocracy. As a child, you were bigger than the bug. Splat! Too bad for you, bug. How dare you exist. In the adult world, however, distinguishing between a true meritocracy and a prejudicial pattern of hiring is not so clear cut. In the last couple of weeks the Internet has been rippling with controversy over "The Daily Show's" lack of women -- "The Daily Show's Woman Problem," by Irin Carmon on jezebel.com, "Outrage World: How Feminist Blogs Like Jezebel Gin Up Page Views by Exploiting Women's Worst ...
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