Comments on: See, I Always Thought Fox News Was Satire…

By: Aaron

Aaron — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 16:37:36 +0000

The Daily Show also has a “global edition” that airs on CNN International. Trix, its not just for kids.

Oh, sure, the comedy shows will once in a while mock the left, and yes, when they are in power they will do a little more of that…see SNL skit about Pelosi…except, methinks they mainly made fun of her facial tics and gays not being accepted in middle america and not anything about her politics in general..okay maybe a little…

By: gal

gal — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 17:55:26 +0000

I also think it’s a fallacy that young people believe that The Daily Show is “real” news. It’s on freakin’ Comedy Central, for crying out loud. Many kids do indeed know satire when they see it.

By: gal

gal — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 17:53:11 +0000

“I think if the main news media focused more on making the news actually entertaining, more people would watch it.”

Oh PLEASE! That’s exactly what’s wrong with TV news these days. It’s been dumbed down to giggling co-anchors and fluff bits about lame celebrities and whichever pretty blonde American girl has gone missing lately.

No. Thanks. I don’t want my news any more “entertaining”! For that, I do watch Stewart and Colbert. I get my real news from NPR and online sources like Reuters, BBC, etc. TV news is mostly crap except for some of the more in-depth news magazines like Frontline on PBS.

By: DosPeros

DosPeros — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 22:37:54 +0000

Nothing annoys me more than Rock the Vote. Most 18-22 year olds should not be allowed to vote.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNl4IdA0vJY

funny shit…

By: Meredith

Meredith — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 19:25:52 +0000

It just so happens that I recently have been watching the Daily Show from 2004. I have seen 15 episodes of that season so far, and they spent almost the entirety of each show making fun of the Dems who ran in the primary: Dean, Kerry, Kucinich, Lieberman, Etc.

If a Dem wins in 2008, Comedy Central will have to roast him or her. The Daily Show and The Colbert Report make jokes about political issues. If they stop making fun of the President in 2008, who are they going to make fun of? They’re not just going to stop the show . . . .

By: sleipner

sleipner — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 03:07:02 +0000

I rather enjoy the Daily Show more than the Colbert Show, but some of Steven’s satires I think can hit far harder than the more direct Daily Show humor…

I see both as being pretty lefty, but as some have mentioned here, it’s mostly because the right gives them SO much ammo for comedy…

By: The Babaganoosh

The Babaganoosh — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 01:35:09 +0000

If they are going to go ahead with the show, then it would be competing with the Colbert Report, which is way more to the left than the Daily Show (or maybe it’s just so much less funny – I can’t tell). Jon Stewart usually castigates the right wing nowadays, but he still makes it funny. He also takes his potshots at the left (remember him ripping on Dennis Kucinich? Hilarious). I would expect this satire show to fail, and fail miserably, but I don’t think FOX news will be bottom of the barrel in ratings five years from now.

Unless they bring Keith Olbermann aboard.

By: DosPeros

DosPeros — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 13:52:18 +0000

Mark my wordsÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã‚Â¦in 5 years Fox News will be at the bottom of the barrel as far as ratings goes

Wishful words from an Air America supporter…but your words are marked.

By: BenG

BenG — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 05:02:31 +0000

Fox News is a JOKE. Anybody who thinks that propaganda is ‘fair and balanced’ has quite a fairly unbalanced brain.

Thanks folks, you’re all quite entertaining in your own way. Have a great weekend.

BTW, watchin Letterman at the moment; now he’s way left, but still funny sometimes. Leno is better at pokin fun @ both sides and that makes him more tolerable, but not as funny. A conservative bein funny ? That’s an oxymoron–or maybe just a moron [sorry couldn't resist]. Relax, some of my best friends r conservative and very funny. You’re just oversensitive. Guess it comes wth bein made fun of so much. Here’s a clue–STOP MAKIN IT SO EASY

By: James

James — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 20:18:14 +0000

The SAD thing is… that more young folk get their “NEWS” from John Stewart… and think that it IS news.

I think if the main news media focused more on making the news actually entertaining, more people would watch it.

By: FatalGoldfish

FatalGoldfish — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 04:44:33 +0000

People on the left who John Stewart has satirized in the last year:

1.) Hugo Chavez (a representative of socialist philosophy if there ever was one)–Stewart even lambasted people like Harry Belafonte and Danny Glover for supporting him

2.) John Kerry (he’s been pretty merciless, in fact)

3.) Howard Dean (he actually apologized to Dean for previously suggesting the 50-state plan wouldn’t work)

4.) The students of Columbia University who disrupted a speech by the leader of the Minutemen

I came up with that in the last 30 seconds. If I had another hour I could come up with more. None of these bits, BTW, made Stewart very popular with the “Left.”

I can’t help but get a laugh out of people who rant about what a leftie Stewart is, when the Daily Show gives more “fair and balanced” exposure to the standard-bearers of the right–like James Baker, John Ashcroft and William Bennett–than Bill O’Reilly or Rush Limbaugh would ever give Cindy Sheehan, even under threat of waterboarding.

By: Jimmy the Dhimmi

Jimmy the Dhimmi — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 23:43:08 +0000

Sure sleipner, CNN, MSNBC, Headline news, BBC, PBS, ect… not to mention the big 3 ABC, NBC, CBS…all part of that vast right wing conspiracy.

Comedians during the Clinton years made fun of Bill’s sexcapades and nothing much else. We’ll see if John stewart satirizes socialist philosophy, multinationalism or liberal-academic elitism during the coming years; just like he made fun of corporations, Christians, and bible-belt america for the past 6 or 7 years.

By: sleipner

sleipner — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 20:57:42 +0000

Hah, as if Fox is the only “right-leaning” news network. They’re the only one that’s so blatant about it that even righties like Jimmy can’t claim they’re “fair and balanced.” Most of the rest lean right as well, conservatives repeating their mantra “liberal media” hundreds of times does not make it true. In fact, it used to be true, until most of the media was bought out by conservative corporations.

It’ll be really interesting to see if anyone can tell the difference between this new “satire” show and their existing “news” programming.

By: Justin Gardner

Justin Gardner — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 20:27:16 +0000

If you donÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢t think The Daily Show has a leftist slant, you are kidding yourself.

Oh, I’m not saying it doesn’t lean left, but what I’m also saying is that it will lean right if Dems get control again. Again, look at comedians and the Clinton years. They weren’t making fun of Tom DeLay then. It’s only when guys like that got into power and started doing goofy stuff that they got lampooned. That’s just how it works.

My prediction for Fox still stands. We’ll see I guess.

By: Jimmy the Dhimmi

Jimmy the Dhimmi — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 18:48:23 +0000

As long as Fox is the only right-leaning news network on TV, and all of the others remain leftist, then Fox will contiue to dominate in the ratings, if only because the left-leaning networks split the liberal audience between them.

If you don’t think The Daily Show has a leftist slant, you are kidding yourself. It is “The Onion” on TV. Its still funny though.