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Jon Stewart and Chris Wallace do battle on Fox News over Sarah Palin. Fox News host Chris Wallace brought up a comparison Jon Stewart made between a Sarah Palin ad and one for Valtrex, a herpes medication during a contentious interview on Fox News back in June 2011. Wallace asked Stewart about the political motivation […]
Jon Stewart tore into shameless Republican Senators who blocked a veterans’ benefits bill by attempting to attach Iran sanctions to the bill. Stewart aptly pointed out that while it is a great shame that the Twitterverse was ablaze with Tweets about John Travolta’s Oscars gaffe, America’s greater shame is the fact that the Senate’s behavior […]
Rachel Maddow joined Jon Stewart for Wednesday’s Daily Show to discuss her upcoming documentary, Why We Did It, which looks as the reasons for the Iraq War. Stewart asked Maddow why she decided to tackle “the abyss that is the war with Iraq?” Maddow replied that now that 10 years have passed some people are […]
Jon Stewart took the selection process for ambassadors, asking: “Is there a rule ambassadors can’t have set foot in the countries they are going to ambassador? Would it ruin the surprise?” Noting that none of Obama’s recent ambassador selections have ever been to their assigned countries, Stewart suggested that the administration should select “someone we […]
In many ways it seems the Sochi Olympic Games coverage has been dominated by disasters and scandals more than the games themselves. Issues range from LGBT rights to the murder of stray dogs, from unsafe arena conditions to an athlete having to force his way out of a bathroom after finding himself locked inside. Jon […]