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Article: No Joke: Jon Stewart Takes Aim At 24-Hour Cable News 'Beast'
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- August 26, 2008
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Jon Stewart ripped the cable news networks Monday as a "brutish,
slow-witted beast" and castigated Fox News in particular as "an
appendage of the Republican Party."
Wearing a gray T-shirt, khaki pants and a healthy stubble, the
"Daily Show" host told reporters at a University of Denver breakfast
that Fox's "fair and balanced" slogan is an insult "to people with
brains" and that only "Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace "saves
that network from slapping on a bumper sticker. . . . Barack Obama
could cure cancer and they'd figure out a way to frame it as an
economic disaster."
"I'm stunned to see Karl Rove on a news network as an analyst,"
he said of the Bush White House aide turned Fox ...
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