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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 ...
2010 News Quotes Quiz: Who Said It?
By not in system - AOL News2010 was such a bumpy ride that this quote epitomizes the year: "Heads down! Stay down!" That's what a flight attendant shouted over and over as an airliner made an emergency landing at New York's JFK Airport in September. Of course, the moment was recorded on cell phone video and watched by millions. Here are 10 more quotes that capture some of the spirit of 2010. Do you know who said each one? Click here to get the answers. 1. "There's no one who wants this thing over more than I do. You know, I'd like my life back." Getty Images | AP 2. "I will take you out, buddy!" AP | ...
2010 News Quotes Quiz: Who Said It? [ANSWERS]
By not in system - AOL NewsHere are the answers to the 2010 Quotes Quiz with details about who said what and why -- plus some information on the people who didn't say these things, but might have. 1. "There's no one who wants this thing over more than I do. You know, I'd like my life back." Answer: C. Tony Hayward All three of the newsmakers we listed surely said this to themselves at some point during this difficult year. In June, Gen. David Petraeus was suddenly given the thankless task of running the war in Afghanistan after Gen. Stanley McCrystal got the boot for deriding administration officials in a Rolling ...
10 Best Gaffes of 2010 That You May Have Missed
By A.G. Vargas - AOL NewsThis has been a year filled with many memorable moments. The political arena has had its share of off-script instances that were oftentimes disastrous but sometimes hilarious. You may have heard about many of them -- from Vice President Joe Biden's f-bomb at the health care reform event to Christine O'Donnell's "separatation of church and state" line to former BP head Tony Hayward's complaint during the gulf oil spill that "I'd like my life back." But there were several other off-script gems this year that you may not have seen. Here are my top 10. 1) Senator, Secretary, What's the ...
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 ...
Juan Williams Has Company: 11 Famous Politically Correct Firings
By David Knowles - AOL NewsCorrection: The original version of this article incorrectly identified Joe Jervis as the aide to Saxby Chambliss who was fired over a comment left on the blog JoeMyGod.com. In fact, Mr. Jervis is the author of the blog, and the man to whom Chambliss issued an apology over the message. Surge Desk regrets the error. (Oct. 21) -- Sometimes, the freedom of speech comes with an asterisk attached. NPR's firing of veteran political commentator Juan Williams for his admission on Fox News host Bill O'Reilly's program that he gets nervous when he gets on a plane and sees people dressed in "Muslim ...
We're All Juan Williams Now
By Paul Wachter - AOL NewsOPINION (Oct. 21) -- NPR just fired news analyst Juan Williams, one of the most gifted speakers I've seen in person. I've only seen him once, more than a decade ago. I was a senior in high school and visiting Earlham College, a small liberal arts college founded by Quakers in Indiana, and Williams happened to be speaking on campus. (Williams had attended Haverford, another Quaker school.) I recognized his name from PBS' "Eyes on the Prize," a powerful documentary about the civil rights years, for which Williams wrote a slim companion book. It was my first visit to a prospective college, ...
Sanchez on CNN, Stewart Remarks: 'I Screwed Up'
By Mara Gay - AOL News
(Oct. 8) -- Former CNN anchor Rick Sanchez said his comments about Jon Stewart were "wrong" and "offensive," and apologized for remarks many said were anti-Semitic. "I screwed up," Sanchez told ABC's "Good Morning America" in his first televised interview since he was fired last week during the fallout from his comments. "I said some things I shouldn't have said. And they were wrong. And not only were they wrong, they were offensive." On live radio last week, Sanchez, who grew up in Cuba, called Stewart a "bigot" and went on to question whether the Comedy Central star's Jewish heritage ...
One-Upping Rick Sanchez? Rays Pitcher Said to Get Nod Because He's . . . Jewish! (Or Not)
By David Gibson - Politics DailyA week after CNN anchor Rick Sanchez got canned for saying that Jews run the media and that some, like Comedy Central's Jon Stewart, are bigots who don't face discrimination, a caller to a sports radio talk show has become a national sensation for suggesting that a Tampa Bay Rays pitcher will start Game 2 of the playoffs because he, too, is Jewish. The woman, who identified herself as Linda (and as a Quaker who says she follows the Bible but doesn't really know the Bible), called into Steve Duemig's radio show on WDAE in Tampa and said the Rays decided to start James Shields in Game 2 of the ...
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 ...
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