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Watch Larry Wilmore Mock 'Fake News' Host Brian Williams for Leaving Before Mets Won NLCS

By Curtis Houck | October 24, 2015, 4:51 PM EDT

At the top of his Comedy Central program The Nightly Show on Thursday, host Larry Wilmore brought up the New York Mets advancing to the World Series and had some fun with the news at the expense of his viewers, former Daily Show host Jon Stewart, and disg ...

Patrick Stewart Praises ‘Intellectually Clever’ Jon Stewart, Rachel Maddow

By Jeffrey Meyer | August 25, 2015, 9:32 AM EDT

Veteran actor Patrick Stewart, who spoke with CNN’s Brian Stelter for Sunday's Reliable Sources to promote his new show Blunt Talk, described how he prepared for his role as a nightly cable news host by watching liberal anchors Jon Stewart and Rachel ...

NBC and CBS Hype Push to Have Jon Stewart Moderate 2016 Debate

By Kyle Drennen | August 21, 2015, 12:44 PM EDT

Just two weeks after the broadcast networks mourned “cultural icon” Jon Stewart leaving The Daily Show, Friday’s NBC Today and CBS This Morning touted an online petition on the liberal Change.org website urging the Commission on Presidential Debates to se ...

Notable Quotables: CNN Lobbies on Behalf of Planned Parenthood

By Rich Noyes | August 17, 2015, 10:34 AM EDT

Now online: the August 17 edition of Notable Quotables, MRC’s bi-weekly compilation of the latest outrageous quotes in the liberal media. This week, with the nation’s largest abortion provider under fire for allegedly selling baby body parts for profit, C ...

Networks on Jon Stewart: 'America's Satirical Voice' Held Powerful 'Accountable'

By Scott Whitlock | August 7, 2015, 4:14 PM EDT

According to the networks on Friday, Jon Stewart's departure from the Daily Show means "America's satirical voice," the man who held the powerful "accountable," had said goodbye. A more honest reading would be that a low-rate ...

Bye-Bye Jon! The Daily Show Host's Worst Attacks on Conservatives

By Geoffrey Dickens | August 6, 2015, 11:11 AM EDT

“Profound,” “trusted,” “insightful,” “invaluable patriot,” “too cool to be spun.”  These are just some of the over-the-top bouquets members of the so-called serious news media have thrown Jon Stewart’s way in the last few days of his run as anchor of The ...

Jon Stewart's Lowest Moment: Hiroshima Makes Truman a War Criminal

By Tom Blumer | August 6, 2015, 2:10 AM EDT

How absolutely serendipitous it is that alleged comedian and actual White House propagandist Jon Stewart’s last broadcast of The Daily Show is today, August 6, the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan. You see, Stewart, whose influen ...

Stewart Uses Sexual Gesture to Attack Walker’s Appearance at Koch Event

By Jeffrey Meyer | August 5, 2015, 7:39 AM EDT

As Jon Stewart wraps up his final week as host of the  Daily Show, he used his Monday night show to attack a recent Koch brothers event that featured numerous Republican presidential candidates in attendance.  Stewart opened up his broadcast by making a c ...

NBC: ‘Saddest Thing’ About Jon Stewart Finale is He Won’t Be Around to Mock GOP

By Kyle Drennen | August 12, 2015, 2:19 PM EDT

On Monday’s NBC Today, 9 a.m. ET hour co-hosts Tamron Hall and Willie Geist mourned Jon Stewart’s final week anchoring The Daily Show. Hall proclaimed: “Oh my goodness, it is the end of an era. In a few days Jon Stewart will bid farewell to The Daily Show ...

Obama Outrageously Denies IRS Targeting Scandal on Daily Show, Nets Censor

By Geoffrey Dickens | July 22, 2015, 7:17 PM EDT

President Barack Obama outrageously denied there was anything scandalous about the IRS-Tea Party controversy, in his Tuesday interview on The Daily Show, as he lectured Jon Stewart that: “When there was that problem with the I.R.S. everybody jumped, inclu ...

CBS on Obama's Final Jon Stewart Appearance: 'Like Two Old Friends'

By Scott Whitlock | July 22, 2015, 7:14 PM EDT

All three networks on Wednesday hyped Barack Obama's final appearance on The Daily Show, but it was CBS that offered the most nostalgic, sentimental coverage. This Morning reporter Vladimir Duthiers reminisced, "Like two old friends just enjoyin ...

Jon Stewart to Obama: ‘Are We Demanding Too Much of You?’

By Jeffrey Meyer | July 22, 2015, 9:37 AM EDT

During his final appearance Tuesday night on the Daily Show, with Jon Stewart as host, President Obama was treated to a softball interview in which the retiring Comedy Central host worried: “Are we [the media] demanding too much of you?”  Stewart clearly ...

Lefty Professor: By Leaving The Daily Show, Jon Stewart Is Giving In to Fox News ‘Bullies’

By Tom Johnson | July 22, 2015, 7:30 PM EDT

The Miracle on Ice and Hoosiers aside, the underdog usually loses, and Penn State professor Sophia McClennen speculates that it’s happened again: Jon Stewart is leaving The Daily Show because he’s “exhausted” and "dejected" from battling Roger A ...

Jon Stewart Asks Dem. Senator if GOPers ‘Have Mental Problems?’

By Jeffrey Meyer | July 6, 2015, 12:32 AM EDT

Liberal New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand sat down for a friendly interview with Daily Show host Jon Stewart on Wednesday night and the two eagerly took turns bashing Republican members of Congress for being “cynical” for disagreeing with liberal policy ...

Jon Stewart Mocks NY Times Coverage of Rubio, Leaves Key Points on the Cutting Room Floor

By Tom Blumer | June 12, 2015, 1:37 AM EDT

If you're Comedy Central's Jon Stewart, you know you have to do the occasional segment going after the establishment press or left-wing groups to maintain appearances. The James O'Keefe-ACORN saga in 2009 was one such instance. If Stewart h ...