Jon Stewart

How to get a conservative to say “I’m sorry”: put your gripe on video. It worked for U.S. Rep. Steve Israel with his Minnesota counterpart, Michele Bachmann, and for cable host Jon Stewart with his opposite at Fox, Sean Hannity.

When U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann appeared on Sean Hannity’s Fox News TV show to celebrate her anti-health care reform rally, she said it had drawn as many as 45,000 — a figure almost everyone else put at 10,000. Then Hannity showed video that began with scenes of Bachmann’s Thursday rally under a clear fall [...]

Every politician, presumably, is opposed to rape. So it would seem likely that Sen. Al Franken’s first legislative amendment — which would prohibit government contractors from restricting workers from suing if they are sexually assaulted while on the job — would pass unanimously. The provision was inspired by the story of a 19-year-old KBR employee [...]

On The Daily Show last night, Jon Stewart lamented the closing of Conde Nast magazines Modern Bride, Elegant Bride and Gourmet, then produced a joke edition of his own fusion publication: Jon Stewart’s Pregnant Bride Gourmet Magazine. He says it’s a trend. Soon we’ll see such hybrids as Utne Reader’s Digest, a nod to the [...]

In the Bizarro Land that is modern American politics, all is turned upside-down. Conservatives are toting dog-eared copies of “Rules for Radicals” by the late lefty Saul Alinsky, Jon Stewart has dubbed Fox News the “new liberals,” and — wait for it — Michele Bachmann, a vehement abortion opponent, is telling the government to keep [...]

Jon Stewart’s monocular endorsement of the Utne Reader has inspired a new video promoting the magazine. Chuck Olsen of The UpTake and MNStories has outfitted Utne staffers, including High Times-reading editor David Schimke and Paranoia-perusing Jeff Severns Guntzel with the single lens spectacles… all in reference to a Daily Show gag in which a similarly [...]

“Minnesota Representative and free-range cougar” Michele Bachmann got prominent play on The Daily Show last night as a key example of conservatives “speaking crazy to power.” At 2:50 into the clip (below), host Jon Stewart plays Bachmann’s recent comments that an expansion of the AmeriCorps program might lead to PC “re-education camps.”

Forget Gov. Rod Blagovejich’s “supercilious attitude towards government ethics, we’re more concerned with his super silly cilium (he was trying to line his coffers when he shoulda been lining up a new coiffure!).” That’s how pop culture site Complex.com kicks off its (hopefully annual) list of “worst haircuts in politics.“ Blago’s ‘do has been widely [...]

Jon Stewart and former Reagan/Bush I speechwriter (and current WSJ columnist) Peggy Noonan discuss the economy and the presidential race. Video’s below the jump; highly recommended.
An excerpt of Noonan’s remarks:
I think we are in an epic political moment… We are in a real economic crisis, and the American political establishment said we must do A, [...]

East-Lake points out new billboards produced by The Daily Show to welcome the Republican National Convention. This one, near Highway 77 and 494, welcomes “rich white oligarchs.” Jon Stewart’s Comedy Central show will be taping in St. Paul Sept. 2 through 5 at The History Theatre at McNally Smith College of Music.