Jon Stewart reacts to Gore’s Al Jazeera hypocrisy by ripping Fox News, of course
From there, Stewart played clips of Fox discussion of the Al Jazeera deal and joked: “Oh my God, that means Muslims will be able to see into our homes.” But the Fox critique of Gore was not that he sold his network to Muslims but that it was hypocritical for the global warming activist to sell out to an oil kingdom (a critique also heard in some quarters of the left.) Indeed, in a brief aside, Stewart said that was “a pretty legitimate point.” But it wasn’t about Islam. And while some of the Fox clips Stewart played referred to Al Jazeera as “anti-American,” none mentioned Islam.
But that didn’t stop Stewart. His main point, at the end of the segment, was to note that Fox parent company News Corporation owns a 20 percent stake in a Saudi network, Rotana, that, like Al Jazeera, has broadcast hateful comments about Jews. That, Stewart suggested, meant that the real hypocrisy in the Al Gore-Al Jazeera story lay not with Gore, but with Fox. Of course, to make his point, Stewart had to ignore what the Fox commentators actually said. (Disclosure: I am a Fox News contributor.)
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Apparently Liebowitz is too ignorant to be aware that many on the right have already made this observation about FoxNews and are none too happy about it. I guess his staff writers didn’t bother telling him.
Doughboy on January 11, 2013 at 4:52 PM
Feel free to copy and paste that into any/every article written about any Lefty talking about conservatives.
CycloneCDB on January 11, 2013 at 4:53 PM
A leftist using a strawman to make an invalid point? The deuce you say!
besser tot als rot on January 11, 2013 at 5:06 PM
Stewart’s a dope. I’m an optimist so I’d like to say that he’s a well-meaning dope, but a dope nonetheless.
Stewart will be Stewart; the onus of conservatives, especially on a grassroots level is to reach his audience and show them that Stewart is not a serious (ie legitimate) political commentator.
Too many people that I know think that Colbert is actually conservative, and that Stewart constitutes a decent source of information on current events.
Atlas on January 11, 2013 at 5:07 PM
Why is he ashamed of his last name (Leibowitz)?
Ward Cleaver on January 11, 2013 at 5:07 PM
Sarcastic, liberal, famous and Jewish. Yeah, he’ll be one of the first against the wall when the [Muslim] revolution comes.
With apologies to Douglas Adams.
29Victor on January 11, 2013 at 5:11 PM
He’s scared that Muslims will come into his home.
(if he can make unfounded accusations, so can I)
29Victor on January 11, 2013 at 5:11 PM
As stated here,
Stewart’s point about Fox News’ relationship with Rotana is beyond stupid, irrelevant, and diversionary.
Anti-Control on January 11, 2013 at 5:12 PM
Humorists of his stripe used to claim that all blacks love watermelon and then base all their jokes on blacks loving watermelon.
29Victor on January 11, 2013 at 5:17 PM
no comment.
sesquipedalian on January 11, 2013 at 5:24 PM
His loony audience will not agree. They believe, and rightfully so, that Gore is a sell out.
Blake on January 11, 2013 at 5:32 PM
If only….
James on January 11, 2013 at 5:44 PM
The Daily Show made fun of Al Bore and the sanctimonious folk at Fox.
lexhamfox on January 11, 2013 at 5:46 PM
What did Stewart focus on? The bigger, more important issue, or one that served to distract from it?
Stewart is a partisan hack.
Anti-Control on January 11, 2013 at 5:53 PM
Al Gore Shares “Values” With “The Osama bin Laden Channel”
Resist We Much on January 11, 2013 at 5:54 PM
It turns out that Al Gore has no problem with eevvviill Big Oil after all.
Perhaps this might make a few Dem voters (those capable of rational thought) question the motives of the Green Bigots like Gore, Obama, Pelosi, etc.
visions on January 11, 2013 at 5:55 PM
Jon is a leftist.
Bmore on January 11, 2013 at 6:10 PM
Any time he is forced to mock a liberal idol or dogma, he always immediately follows it with an FNC swipe to sooth his audience. He knows the are just there for the daily dose of confirmation bias. The swipes have now become similar to how Family Guy tends to rely on cutaways.
MechanicalBill on January 11, 2013 at 6:13 PM
Stewart is a Snarky Dick…he’s been snarky to the leftards…but he reserves his most bile filled, unhinged crap for the right…
I mean come on…Patron Saint of the Church of Climate Hysteria AlGORE selling his pathetic outfit to Qatar is hypocrisy 101.
Just keep reading the teleprompter….Dick, the gibbering, unemployed imbeciles in your audience love it…
BigWyo on January 11, 2013 at 6:21 PM
EXACTLY.
It is so predictable, and what makes me find him so insufferable is that he actively resists acknowledging this about himself, which is why I rightfully call him a partisan hack.
Anti-Control on January 11, 2013 at 6:27 PM
He must do penance for his sin of challenging his audience’s presupposition. He must offer them a shot at FNC.
You’re correct, of course. He’s giving his audience the right to laugh at a lib because conservatives are much, much worse.
29Victor on January 11, 2013 at 6:52 PM
What a piece of crap Jon Stewart…seriously, he is one pathetic human being who refuses to see the hypocrosy in Al Gore and see the islamic propaganda machine that Al-Jazerra is
sadsushi on January 11, 2013 at 8:25 PM