huffingtonpost.com— Jon Stewart began his show last night by skewering CNN for fact checking an SNL skit. But letting politicians lie about statistics and never fact check them.
Oct 13, 2009View in Crawl 4
I understood the original question as "if SNL has been doing this for 35 years, why are all the news network talking about it NOW?"my point is that only after the Sarah Palin sketch did I start hearing about this so-called "political influence" of SNL. and I think that is why CNN is bothering, now, to "fact check" a SNL sketch
Exactly. Hey, if they checked everything people said against facts, I'd be fine with them fact-checking an SNL skit for a few minutes. As I said earlier:STOP LEAVING IT THERE, CNN
They "tweeted" about it too. Here's the direct quote:"Daily Show having some fun at our expense this week: <a class="user" href="http://www.thedailyshow.com/&quot;" rel="nofollow">http://www.thedailyshow.com/&quot;</a> (They linked to the main page instead of the actual video.) I was annoyed that they weren't getting the message.STOP LEAVING IT THERE, DAMN IT
panthusdireOct 14, 2009
Thanks for the moose love.
Closed AccountOct 14, 2009
I understood the original question as "if SNL has been doing this for 35 years, why are all the news network talking about it NOW?"my point is that only after the Sarah Palin sketch did I start hearing about this so-called "political influence" of SNL. and I think that is why CNN is bothering, now, to "fact check" a SNL sketch
glassagateOct 14, 2009
You can take your fancy English skills and gggeeeettt out!
sprucecabooseOct 14, 2009
CNN is better than MSNBC or Fox. Not by a lot, though. And the BBC and Reuters crap on all three of them.
v2blastOct 14, 2009
Exactly. Hey, if they checked everything people said against facts, I'd be fine with them fact-checking an SNL skit for a few minutes. As I said earlier:STOP LEAVING IT THERE, CNN
v2blastOct 14, 2009
They "tweeted" about it too. Here's the direct quote:"Daily Show having some fun at our expense this week: <a class="user" href="http://www.thedailyshow.com/&quot;" rel="nofollow">http://www.thedailyshow.com/&quot;</a> (They linked to the main page instead of the actual video.) I was annoyed that they weren't getting the message.STOP LEAVING IT THERE, DAMN IT
ichthus007Oct 15, 2009
i loved this bit...and my wife loved it too...and she is a Republican...CNN is such a bunch of twerps....
ryanonfireOct 17, 2009
Hey what's the first rule of mass media? Give the people what they want.