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FanHouse's Soccer Quotes of the Year for 2010
By Brian Straus - AOL NewsFanHouse's first year of full-time soccer coverage began with a snowy tour of the New York Red Bulls' amazing new stadium in Harrison, NJ and ended amid awkward celebration at Al Jazeera's bureau in Washington, DC. In between, we covered an MLS season that concluded with a hard-fought championship victory for the Colorado Rapids and a World Cup in South Africa highlighted by a wild ride for the U.S. national team and long-awaited glory for Spain (yes, we're in the photo above). From the Philadelphia Union's debut to the pre-World Cup training camp in Princeton, we were there. And we took ...
Fox News' Roger Ailes Calls Obama Socialist, Jon Stewart 'Crazy' and NPR 'Nazis'
By David Knowles - AOL News(Nov. 18) -- How does one define "fair and balanced"? In a wide-ranging interview with the Daily Beast's Howard Kurtz, Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes was not shy about voicing his opinions on a variety of subjects, including President Barack Obama, Jon Stewart and NPR. The interview, which ran in two parts at Tina Brown's site, offered insights into how the man charged with running Fox News views some of the topics most discussed on his network. On President Obama: "The president has not been very successful. He just got kicked from Mumbai to South Korea, and he came home and attacked ...
Jon Stewart Is 'Baby Jesus' to His Fans, Says NY Times Media Critic
By David Knowles - AOL News(Nov. 4) -- Is he bigger than Jesus? Or just the same size? In the wake of Jon Stewart's wildly successful "Rally to Restore Sanity," some media watchers are wondering whether the comedian and his fans may be taking themselves a tad too seriously of late. Take David Carr, television critic for The New York Times, who, in his review of the Comedy Central host's Washington, D.C., rally, took Stewart to task for taking the media to task. "It was a beautiful day on the Mall," Carr wrote, "and who doesn't like kicking the press around, but speaking of ants, media bias and hyperbole seem like ...
At Rally to Restore Sanity, It's the Media's Turn to Cover Jon Stewart
By David Knowles - AOL News(Oct. 29) -- A man who spends a great deal of his show poking fun at how news networks cover world events, Jon Stewart suddenly finds himself at the center of the media's attention. When Saturday's "Rally to Restore Sanity" and "March to Keep Fear Alive" begin on the Washington Mall, 400 news outlets will be there to chronicle what Stewart has called his "million moderate march," The New York Times reports. Print journalists, television reporters and bloggers will jockey for space among a crowd that may well near 200,000 people. Just as Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally became a bona ...
Jon Stewart and the Politics of Sanity: Comity Tomorrow, Comedy Tonight
By Melinda Henneberger - Politics DailyHere's where we are, America: Not so long ago, disenchantment with the Republicans in Congress and the White House was such that we threw them out. Then, of course, the public became just as peeved at the Democrats in charge. Now -- and this might be the most shocking -- we are so thoroughly disillusioned that even Jon Stewart has lost his sparkle. The Baltimore Sun's David Zurawik is worried that Stewart has become The One, and that any who would turn up on the Mall on a sunny Saturday are his...worshipers? "The arrogance of Stewart and Colbert has reached a point with this rally that I find ...
Obama on 'The Daily Show': Hope and Change Take Time
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyAppearing on "The Daily Show" Wednesday evening, President Obama defended his record on the economy, health care reform and the administration's ability to meet the extraordinary expectations of those who elected him less than two years ago. "When we promised during the campaign 'change you can believe in,' it wasn't change you can believe in -- in 18 months," said Obama. "It was 'change you can believe in' -- but you're gonna have to work for it." Host Jon Stewart suggested that Obama had not delivered fully on one of his signature issues -- health care reform -- which drew a sharp rebuttal ...
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 ...
Jon Stewart's 'Rally to Restore Sanity' to Be Broadcast Live, Streamed Live
By David Knowles - AOL News(Oct. 13) -- First the nation watched live as honor was restored. Soon, it will have the opportunity to see the same done to sanity. As with the Glenn Beck rally before, millions of Americans who cannot physically travel to Washington, D.C., will watch rallies hosted by Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert in our nation's capital on their television and computer screens. On Tuesday, Stewart announced to viewers of "The Daily Show" that the show's website would host a live feed of the event, and that Comedy Central would also broadcast portions of the two rallies. "Comedy Central is willing to ...
Stephen Colbert's Congressional Testimony: Appropriate or Waste of Time?
By David Knowles - AOL News(Sept. 24) -- Know your audience: There is perhaps no dictum more central to the craft of comedy. But after watching Comedy Central host Stephen Colbert's performance on Capitol Hill today, many observers are wondering whether he missed the mark. Even before Colbert delivered his opening statement at the House of Representatives hearing on farm labor and illegal immigrants in the guise of the ultra-conservative host of "The Colbert Report," Democrat John Conyers tried to put a stop to it. "I would like to recommend that now we got all this attention that you excuse yourself and you let us ...
Pans for Jon Stewart After Duel With Bush Aide
By David Knowles - AOL News(Jan. 12) -- If fans of "The Daily Show" had hoped that host Jon Stewart would score an unqualified knockout in his run-in with Monday night's guest, former Bush administration lawyer John Yoo, they may have been disappointed. Yoo's interview with Stewart -- whose sometimes lacerating interviews of politicians and right-leaning media personalities have made him a hero to many liberals -- had been greatly anticipated. Something like a comeuppance was close for the man who had authored the so-called torture memos that provided legal justification for enhanced interrogation techniques like ...
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