"The media is biased toward(s) sensationalism, conflict, and laziness." Wow. Also, they peppered him with two barrels he still stood till the end.
Watch Wallace grimace after Stewart tells him his job is more difficult Wallace's.
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So Chris Wallace's answer to being called agenda-driven is: "well we're not the only ones doing it"

I'd also like to point out that just because John Stewart doesn't see himself as a player in the political news world, that it's not how his fans (and critics) perceive him

i always find it delicious irony when personalities such as wallace compare what their is inherently their duty as part of the fourth estate to what stewart does and stewart blasts them dead in the face every time.
they are being sensationalists and lazy and stewart calls them on it.
you can visibly watch wallace gain respect for stewart as the interview progresses.
great interview.

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i always find it delicious irony when personalities such as wallace compare what their is inherently their duty as part of the fourth estate to what stewart does and stewart blasts them dead in the face every time.
they are being sensationalists and lazy and stewart calls them on it.
you can visibly watch wallace gain respect for stewart as the interview progresses.
great interview.


I think they do it because its the only way they can drag Stewart to their level, I seem to remember MSNBC having a 'tiff' with Jon after he reamed them particularly hard. They tried to drag Jon to their level and failed miserably. He's a comedian, he doesn't have nearly the same responsibility the news portion has, he really doesn't even have the same responsibility as their opinion section has. As he said comedy first.

Glorious interview.

I love how Wallace claims up and down that they're not trying to discredit him. Is that why Wallace changed the subject every time he realized he wasn't going to trip Stewart up? It's obviously clear that they were trying to overwhelm him and trip him up and get him to say something damning.

Fox, once again, fails horribly.

It's just sad because Stewart explained what he is about a long time ago. The first time I remember him clearly explaining it was the Crossfire interview years ago where he very clearly states that, while, sure, he may lean left, but he is a comedian first and he will always make fun of the absurdity in the system be it left or right. Stewart goes away when the system stops being absurd. Stewart makes NO secret of this and yet Fox, and to a lesser extent, the other "news" channels still are confounded by this.

@VoodooV I remember that interview and understanding what he meant while the buffoons on crossfire didn't. "I'm not gonna be your 'monkey boy'" comes to mind.

Aye, that Crossfire interview was perfect because it's a show that supposedly has representatives from both the left and the right on the show, but Stewart ripped on them both and demonstrated that it's not a question of left vs right, it's that journalists and news media simply aren't doing the job they're supposed to be doing, period.
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@<a rel="nofollow" href="http://videosift.com/member/VoodooV" title="member since April 28th, 2010" class="profilelink">VoodooV I remember that interview and understanding what he meant while the buffoons on crossfire didn't. "I'm not gonna be your 'monkey boy'" comes to mind.

Refreshing to see opposites to have civil disagreements and debates.
Good post.

Anybody else notice how often the Fox "interviewer" interrupts Jon and wants him to take back his opinions?

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-roger-ailes-built-the-fox-news-fear-factory-20110525

All jump into the weiner pool!

The Canadian flag waving in the background is a nice touch.

"I think they have a liberal agenda and we tell the opposite side of the story."

Fox admits they have a conservative agenda.

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I'd also like to point out that just because John Stewart doesn't see himself as a player in the political news world, that it's not how his fans (and critics) perceive him


Bah! Listen again, he never said he wasn't a player in the political world just that he's a comedian first. It's true that satirists are inherently involved in what they are making fun of because of topic choice and what they say, but I think Stewart wins this round because he is a comedian who talks about politics (very) frequently and not a political writer who happens to be funny.

Don't discount the fact that he's on a show called "The Daily Show" which is supposed to be a mock daily news show. They can't just talk about all the planes that landed or everything politicians are doing right.

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Jon seemed more offended and angry at a couple of points than I have ever seen him. Wallace got under his skin. Wallace gives me the creeeps a bit, kind of a broken version of his dad.

That's a pretty massive and highly regarded shadow for any journalist to walk under. So good of Wallace to watch all those painful episodes of South Park (for research!) to try to live up to it.>> ^dag:

Jon seemed more offended and angry at a couple of points than I have ever seen him. Wallace got under his skin. Wallace gives me the creeeps a bit, kind of a broken version of his dad.

Upvote for "I don't know the kind of sway a president can have on an economy."

We as sifters love Jon Stewart, but we shouldn't. Because, he is against all forms of sensationalism. The likes of which we all get so many upvotes for.

I'm kinda glad this interview was more resolute than Crossfire. But I would not have minded seeing it go that way either.

Wallace played his part perfectly, in that if you were one of Fox's uninformed viewers, you could think he won the interview based on his behavior. On TDS, Stewart will interact with the answers his interviewees give to his questions, but Wallace either interrupts Stewart's answer with a new topic, or doesn't react at all to completely valid points.

I wish Stewart would present his whole case against Fox every time he goes on there, but on the other hand, it's so easy for Fox hosts to spin in realtime that they could make him look like a raving madman if he didn't play along.

Reality has a liberal bias.

"the other side of the story", because for idiots, there really are only two sides to a story.

Wallace is a moron, a lying sack of shit, or a whore telling lies for money. Take your pick.

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So Chris Wallace's answer to being called agenda-driven is: "well we're not the only ones doing it"


Raises MY opinion of him...

stewart is always on. i like how he stuck it in there that fox viewers are consistently more misinformed than viewers of other networks and how wallace didn't deny it. i also like the mark twain comparison. i also like how stewart is never ever made an ass of on any of the fox interviews he does, try as they might.

when i watch stewart do these interviews lately he feels like this dude who shows up at my house randomly to work in the garden and make food. stoned and silly and aimless until you get him tuned in and realize how jaw droppingly brilliant and engaged he is. i like it. there's a word for that air they carry, and i dont know what it is.

I just love listening to Jon Stewart when he's being serious. It's so refreshing and calming in a way.

And you can only tell one of them.>> ^lavoll:

"the other side of the story", because for idiots, there really are only two sides to a story.

I'd like to respect Chris Wallace, but when you open the interview in such a bitchy, douchy way that he did....

This pretty much showed how JS is a hypocrite so blinkered by bias that he personifies the very evil he decries.

Let’s call a tiger a tiger. Cable news channels have two completely different facets. One facet is the “news” update – which is when channels are announcing stuff that happens – the cut and dry stuff. The other facet is “commentary”: biased, agenda driven, subjective, interpretive, talking-head bologna that preaches to a specific ideological crowd. Whether you want to admit it or not – ALL news channels have both of these facets of News and Commentary.

Now, the cable news channels have a lot higher “Commentary to News” ratio because they are filling up a 24/7 schedule. Fox is not unique in that regard – but shares the same market space as MSNBC & CNN - about 20% ‘News’ and 80% ‘Commentary’. Whether you like the commentary of a particular channel depends on your own bias. To people who are leftists (the majority of the Sift and JS) commentary on Fox News is like garlic to a vampire. To someone on the right (such as myself) commentary on MSNBC is like salt on road rash.

If Stewart was really a true “satirist” (as he likes to say he is) then he would be mocking all sides because they both have plenty of targets. However, 99 times out of 100, Stewart focuses on the side he ideologically opposes while ignoring juicy targets on the other side. A real satirist doesn’t handcuff himself like that, so what Stewart is doing is less ‘satire’ and more ‘biased commentary’ because what he selects as subject material is driven by his biases.

Stewart can’t admit that or his audience of smug, self-congratulatory neolibs would lose their self esteem. So when presented with ironclad proof that he is biased by Wallace, Stewart CANNOT bring himself to admit it. Instead he desperately cringes behind his typical dodge of being “comedy informed by an ideological background”. What a load of honk. You were nailed Stewart. Your claimed beef with Fox News (that they are somehow ‘unique’ in commentary bias) is proven demonstrably false. Instead, it was made crystal clear that you simply don’t like Fox’s brand of commentary because it ideologically opposes your own. Kind of hurts when you can’t just mack at the camera when you get pegged don’t it? You got visibly irritable and defensive because the truth hurts.

So in this interview Stewart couldn’t dive into the tall grass of his standard “Hey – I’m just a comedian! No fair! My clown-nose is on!” coward defense. The commentary of many news channels is liberally biased just as bad (or worse) than any of Fox News’ conservative commentary. Wallace proves it in black and white. In fact there are many studies that have proven this point routinely. But Stewart can’t bring himself to SAY that news outlets he shares an “informed ideological background” with are biased because that would mean that he would have to admit that he HIMSELF is biased. So in the face of all evidence he says that hack organizations like MSNBC are not biased but “trend toward sensationalism and laziness”. I haven’t heard a weaker, more pathetic rhetorical dodge in a long time.

http://pewresearch.org/pubs/993/who-knows-news-what-you-read-or-view-matters-but-not-your-politics

Of course Stewart doesn’t want to mention polls like this that prove that FOX patrons are about 2X as ‘informed’ as people on MSNBC, NBC, CNN, ABC, or CBC. He doesn’t want to talk about the fact that Couric’s audience is about as ‘informed’ as the average reader of the Inquirer. Of course Stewart isn’t going to admit that people who listen to LIMBAUGH are more informed than his audience. No – like Obama – Stewart only sticks to isolated, biased polls that favor his own personal world view - and ignores the evidence to the contrary. BIASED.

If you’re a fan of Stewart then bully for you. He can be entertaining sometimes, and he even has the occasional decency to admit (albeit sarcastically) his own problems – such as with the whole Weiner scandal. But those of you who are patting yourselves on the back pretending that he somehow ‘skunked’ Wallace are living in a self-insulated fanboi fantasy world.

Wallace made his point. Wallace never tried to say Fox News doesn’t have biased commentary on it. Wallace proved conclusively that other news channels – including Stewart’s own show – are primarily driven by biased commentary rather than news. To the world, Stewart proved that he cannot bring himself to simply admit that left-wing, neolib commentary is biased. Thus, proving to all that Stewart himself is an untrustworthy, intellectually hypocritical, biased tool. Game, set, and match to Wallace. Now Stewart can slink back to his show and lick his wounds by selectively re-editing reality so he doesn’t look quite as big of a tool – as is his wont.

Wow, he really got to you. You've been writing that response all night!

Re: that poll. The names of the house majority leader? Yes, Limbaugh raves about Pelosi daily, so his followers know her name well. Boner? Who could forget!

Now ask them about death-panels. What about government funded abortions by way of planned parenthood? What about Obama's birth certificate? Shall I go on?

Your network of choice perpetrates more bullshit than the others combined.

You're just butt-hurt that JS calls them out on it daily, and makes Chris Wallace look like the ridiculous retarded son of an actual journalist.
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Stewart can’t admit that or his audience of smug, self-congratulatory neolibs would lose their self esteem.


I don't think you understand what "neolibs" means, given the context you use it (derogatory towards liberal-leaning thinkers). I'd suggest you actually look it up before you continue lobbing it out there as if it were an equivalent to "neo-con". It's not.

Let me Google that fer ya: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=neoliberalism

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