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- lorijo42, on 04/19/2009, -113/+628If you put all of the fox business "reporters" in the same room with Jon he would eat them up like toast. No one on Fox is very smart. Not one of them is entertaining. If the women didn't have a rack and legs they wouldn't get on tv. Most of them are just washed up hacks that couldn't get a job at CNBC if they tried (and most of them did) Sad and pathetic is what this is. Want to know about lying and clip manipulation- go to Fox news. They are the best in the business.
- EPeters, on 04/19/2009, -44/+390Fascism: a political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition.
Notice that stuff about "dictatorial leader", "suppression of opposition" and "nation and race"? Jon is commenting about the misuse of the word Fascism. Might as well call Bush and Obama Nazis. Plus, once again cable news is taking on a comedian. Ignore him you morons. - Juliaxa, on 04/19/2009, -60/+375Context is important.
- Cavemonster, on 04/20/2009, -33/+332What's really great is that he only shows 5 seconds of Stewart and takes him out of context.
He then goes on to say government in bed with business is the definition of fascism. Somebody give that guy a dictionary. - wandersfar, on 04/20/2009, -43/+304Buried for boredom. Who gives a *****. This guy is obviously trying to start something with Stewart since that five-second clip on the Daily Show is the most publicity he's ever seen.
- Vaktathi, on 04/20/2009, -32/+292Fox News getting upset that a cable *COMEDY* show that parodies news and openly touts that it has zero journalistic integrity somehow edited their clips for effect?
Huh. - jkleinfeld, on 04/20/2009, -18/+273Oh wow, has 4/20 become opposite day on digg?
- fatsobob, on 04/20/2009, -14/+168Leibowart? That really isn't too clever.
- asgardshill, on 04/19/2009, -74/+218Awww, how cute - the wingnuts are trying to "freep" Digg again. I like the part where they try to start a board war but forget that you actually have to have a board yourself that people actually read before you can go to somebody else's.
- richirwin, on 04/20/2009, -15/+1541. Did this Fox News reporter call Obama a fascist?
Answer: Yes.
2. Did this Fox News reporter also call republicans fascist?
Answer: Yes.
Question: Does #2 in any way invalidate #1?
Answer: No. - unhg, on 04/20/2009, -33/+162WTF Faux News complaining about misquotes and unjust edits? What's next, Bill O'RLY coming out and apologizing?
- Juliaxa, on 04/19/2009, -97/+219Lying by ommission is still lying.
- SaladCactusKing, on 04/20/2009, -21/+131Power Digger 1: "***** I'm submitting an article...that guy from the Daily Show. Jon..Jon...*****, I forgot his last name!"
Power Digger 2: "Oh ***** me too... I think he's a Jew."
Power Digger 1: "Is he?"
Power Digger 2: "A Jew? Yeah, i think so. Give him a Jew name."
Power Digger 1: "Steinberg...Cohen...Feinstein..Leibowart?"
Power Digger 2: "Yeah, Leibowart. That'll do." - MakanGuru, on 04/20/2009, -20/+125Um you guys DO realize that the Daily Show is a satirical comedic entertainment show right? It's not meant to be taken seriously, which I am sure is the same thing some people would say about FOX news as well.
- Chooxo, on 04/20/2009, -12/+100Get a freakin' haircut, dude.
- dutchb0y, on 04/20/2009, -29/+109Still doesn't change Jon's main point that the Fox newcasts had this facism talk coming from the reporters. He may have included the republicans (why they weren't so up in arms abot TARP, I don't know) in his larger statement, but Jon didn't say that he was ONLY targeting Obama, just that he DID label Obama with facism. Jon isn't wrong, nor did he "lie by omission".
This is just a weak attempt to look smarter than Jon Stewart, which this guy, apparently, can't pull off. - alexacastrato, on 04/20/2009, -9/+85Good lord you all must be smoking the bad *****
- temujin1234, on 04/20/2009, -34/+106The wingnuts have pooled together to put a story on the front page of Digg late at night again. Who organizes this stuff?
- whodat807, on 04/20/2009, -14/+85The joke the Daily Show was making was that both liberals and conservative protesters wildly misuse the word 'fascism' in attempting to smear the other side. So the Daily Show edited the clip to make him sound more partisan doesn't make his use of the word any more coherent.
Fascism =/= everything you don't like. - tehdriver, on 04/20/2009, -11/+73Its not his writers, they weren't there when he embarrassed the morons on Crossfire, or his obvious off-the-cuff comments during a whole slew of interviews, most notably against Cramer.
You think the pundits and talking heads on Fox don't have an army of writers behind them? Don't be naive Gordo. - rompom7, on 04/20/2009, -7/+63OK, here is what has happened.
1) Republicans have been getting owned since November.
2) FOX decides that it wants to rebrand itself so that it can move away from the dying republican party.
3) It takes the side of the libertarians, which is anti-democratic and anti-republican (i'm simplifying).
4) But instead of actually being libertarian, they are still actually republican under the guise of a new image. (eg. All of their views on the war, abortion, drugs, etc remain largely traditional republican views.)
5) They cast people like Glenn Beck and Cody Willard to make it seem like a grassroots affair. - quomen, on 04/20/2009, -14/+68Corporatism is a form of soft fascism.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F67ZFpuZwl4
You'd think Digg's more progressive crowd would be in line with this view. I remember a day when it used to be. - kibbled, on 04/20/2009, -15/+68This is just a ratings gimmick. Fox Business news has really poor ratings. I think this guy is trying to pick a fight with John Stewart to get a Daily Show Interview.
- Drax0n, on 04/20/2009, -18/+71I thought it was if you are an idiot you must also watch fox news.
- ldkronos, on 04/20/2009, -6/+57True. But what I find the more important issue is that, although he claims he's just as upset with what the republican fascism, did I miss it when he and others like him were fighting it before Obama got in office? Here's the way it appears to my eyes, and my expectation for the future:
2001-2008: "I love these Republicans"
2009: "I hate these fascist Democrats. Oh, and just to make it appear that I'm not biased here, I just want to say I was just as upset with the fascist Republicans that were in power a few years ago".
2012: "Now we finally get a chance to remove these fascist Democrats from office. Lets show them by voting in a Republican".
2013 (if they get their way): "I love these Republicans" - inactive, on 04/20/2009, -15/+62I dont watch daily show to get news, i watch it to see the news get made fun of.
Jon Stewart serious when he wants to though, What about the whole Jim Cramer thing? At least someone is looking out for us on some level in the media. - ksgant, on 04/20/2009, -10/+55Seriously, I've never even heard of the guy before.
And what's with that hair? - inactive, on 04/20/2009, -10/+54It's Jon Stewart, not God Stewart.
- L33tmaster, on 04/20/2009, -10/+50His birth name was Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz.
- MFoody, on 04/20/2009, -21/+58I don't think it was lying. It was an omission sure, but I don't think it was the Daily Show's thesis that fox was only criticizing Obama. I know tea party people love to seem non partisan and I'm sure for some it's true, but generally it is a deeply partisan trend. The fact remains that Bush started an uneccessary war that was far more expensive than anything that Obama has proposed dramatic increases in entitlements and the right wing was pretty much mute about his profligacy until he was safely out of office. It's good that you can criticize him in hindsight I suppose,but the movement would have a lot more credibility if it didn't emerge as a new president takes office. I'm sure much of the feeling behind the movement is sincere, but, at the same time, I think that these sincere feelings are being manipulated by those on the right wing.
PS calling the daily show audience stoner/mob when they were being critical of an actual mob is pretty silly. - tehdriver, on 04/20/2009, -16/+51I think if Digg required an IQ test to make an account, we'd be spared these random visits from the freepers.
- inactive, on 04/20/2009, -10/+44Thanks for the non sequitur. Would you like to comment on the actual video?
- Coven, on 04/20/2009, -11/+43Jon did just fine during the writer's strike. The show was funny as ever.
- quomen, on 04/20/2009, -10/+40Perhaps we don't like it when FOX reporters call it out, but when liberals say that, it's very popular.
http://digg.com/political_opinion/The_Dominionists ...
http://digg.com/political_opinion/The_Threat_of_U_ ...
http://digg.com/political_opinion/From_Freedom_to_ ...
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It's both parties that are in on this. - flaknugget, on 04/20/2009, -4/+34Comedy Central is not, and does not claim to be a news station.
Fox news does claim to be a news station, yet has 'business reporters' openly accusing the government of fascism without even knowing the definition of the word.
The result, people on digg (and elsewhere) seriously analyze which station is the more credible source of political coverage.
What a shameful state American news is in. - Stormwern, on 04/20/2009, -15/+44So he's a non-partisan idiot then..
Here's the actual definition of fascism btw.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism - teamgwho, on 04/20/2009, -3/+32i agree with you that one reason TDS is that they have a lot of writers. a lot of GOOD writers.
those writers can't help Jon Stewart once he's interviewing someone. Sure, they can help him write some good one liners, but a good interviewer responds to what the person says by asking follow up questions and forcing the person to say something other then staying on message and using the same hackneyed phrase that they (and everyone else) has been using. Stewart is often able to cross swords with some pretty smart, pretty important people and when they spew their *****, shred them.
see: Crossfire, Bill Kristol, Ari Fleisher, Jim Kramer, Nancy pelosi and many many others. - AaronCo, on 04/20/2009, -6/+35Except Fox News doesn't bill itself as a comedy channel...
- SirBruce, on 04/20/2009, -13/+39http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism
Fascism opposes class conflict and blames capitalist liberal democracies for creating class conflict and in turn blames communists for exploiting class conflict.[8] Fascists reject the individualism and self-interest of laissez-faire capitalism.[9] Many fascist leaders have claimed to support a "Third Way" in economic policy, which they believed superior to both the rampant individualism of unrestrained capitalism and the severe control of state communism.[10][11] This was to be achieved by a form of government control over business and labor (called "the corporate state" by Mussolini).[12] Some call this corporatism[13] while some others do not use the term corporatism to describe the fascist economic arrangement.[14] - Drakoi, on 04/20/2009, -67/+93how is this on the front page with 35 diggs? buried. digg the daily show clip instead. you won't have to hear this whiney knownothing ***** spouting offf.
- rezivor, on 04/20/2009, -8/+33I don't know if I'd call this guy a liberal.
- andreegal, on 04/20/2009, -3/+28as posted further down
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism
Fascism opposes class conflict and blames capitalist liberal democracies for creating class conflict and in turn blames communists for exploiting class conflict.[8] Fascists reject the individualism and self-interest of laissez-faire capitalism.[9] Many fascist leaders have claimed to support a "Third Way" in economic policy, which they believed superior to both the rampant individualism of unrestrained capitalism and the severe control of state communism.[10][11] This was to be achieved by a form of government control over business and labor (called "the corporate state" by Mussolini).[12] Some call this corporatism[13] while some others do not use the term corporatism to describe the fascist economic arrangement.[14] - hipnerd, on 04/20/2009, -4/+29I agree. Context is important.
In what context is calling Jon Stewart, "Jon Leibowart" supposed to be anything but ugly antisemitism? - quomen, on 04/20/2009, -14/+39That zero journalistic integrity card is always played, yet people take John Stewart so seriously.
- diggimator, on 04/20/2009, -12/+36I listened to the whole clip. He was still using the term fascism in the sense that Jon Stewart was calling him out for. Just because he played a longer clip doesn't automatically mean Jon Stewart was distorting anything. In this case, it just means he played a longer clip.
- Loonacy, on 04/20/2009, -5/+29Yeah, Jon didn't do so well when he went on Crossfire.
Oh wait... - cplusplus, on 04/20/2009, -11/+35No gov't and big business getting together is the definition of fascism :)
- RegimeUnchanged, on 04/20/2009, -15/+38Show me a clip where this guy calls the Bush administration "fascist" while they were in office.
- fugazied, on 04/20/2009, -3/+25Mussolini style fascism also had a distinct focus on the merger of state and corporation. But really we are not seeing a turn towards fascism or socialism, it's simply corporatism run amok. Corporations/agribusiness/military industrial complex/financial complex/pharmaceutical industry have so much power that regardless of the political party in power, they still get the government to do a lot of their bidding (through corporate anointed appointees, lobbyists and through huge wads of cash).
I still think Obama will do a lot to turn around the country after the Bush disaster, but when I see some of the Obama appointees, especially the financial sector ones, it all seems so hopeless. - idontlikeyou2, on 04/20/2009, -3/+24but he is known as Jon Stewart, any reason to bring Leibowitz up.
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