Jon Stewart: "Fox, shut the fuck up about how victimized you and you alone are. Nobody cares."

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Jon Stewart: Fox, shut the f*ck up about how victimized you are

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/14/jon-stewart-fox-shut-the-fck-up-about-how-victimized-you-are/



Daily Show host Jon Stewart on Tuesday night took Fox News to task for responding to the controversy surrounding Rush Limbaugh by claiming he was just a comedian.

“Nobody is hiding behind comedy,” he noted. “And there are repercussions for what comedians say. When you’re doing it in a club, there are repercussions, ask Michael Richards, ask Tracy Morgan.”

***

“Fox, shut the fuck up about how victimized you and you alone are. Nobody cares,” he concluded.

[Initech]

1. That was an awesome smackdown last night.

[RC]

2. Rush Limbaugh is not a comedian. He is a propagandist.

Fox News should understand that, Right!? Right.

[underpants]

17. Victimization and "follow me out of the wilderness" are the core of RW radio

oh and with the victimization "WE ARE STILL VICTORIOUS"

rinse repeat

I was glad to see someone ANYONE call them out on this

[The Wizard]

24. That would be

bloated Nazi propagandist.

[klook]

29. Limbaugh is

just a vegetable product, isn't he?

[Jamaal510]

30. Limbaugh is a vegetable product high in saturated fat.

[klook]

33. Yes, he makes pink slime seem nutritious (n/t)

[otohara]

3. National Treasures

Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert



Jon Stewart should be honored, vs that hateful blob on the right.

[fascisthunter]

4. Rush is not an entertainer.... he's a political propagandist.

there is nothing funny about the guy or his material.

[Kalidurga]

5. That was great

I didn't know Fox was playing the victim card. I hope they give a show to Rush, he is so vile I think even a lot of Republicans who don't currently listen to him would be turned off. Yikes, at least I hope so!

[AlbertCat]

27. I hope they give a show to Rush,

Rush had a TV show, remember? With a live audience. The 1st show just let people in. It was a DISASTER!!! After that they heavily screened the audience. and the show was still a big bore and died.

Y'see, few people actually LISTEN to Rush. He is mostly background noise they "hear", and Right Wing ears pick up only when they hear some phrase or bumpersticker they already know and/or agree with. 90% of the time Rush just talks about himself and how "great" he is.

I know this because my father used to listen all day...or not listen all day, just noise in the background. You can do that easier with a radio than a TV.

[Kalidurga]

31. Oh yeah I forgot about that...

I saw it once really really late in the evening or really really early in the morning. Anyways, it skeered me silly. Not Rush so much, but when they panned the audience. They looked like dittobots. Really scary no real expressions on their faces, they were just mindlessly clapping at whatever Rush said.

[Atman]

6. Visit Freeperville, The Cave, or CU...

The stupidest people on earth. Reaffirming their idiocy every day.

[madrchsod]

9. cu is still around?

i remember when they had a dumbest (or something like that) du members of the week. sadly the boss put an end to our little spat.

[siligut]

7. The biggest psychopaths will play the victim when it is to their advantage

They have no real concern for the damage they do to others, but they can't stand anyone criticizing them.

[lame54]

8. He conveniently left out...

Viacon's(Comedy Central} firing of Bill Maher - who was the subject of this piece

[RockaFowler]

12. No - it was ABC who fired him

His show had moved to ABC after it aired on Comedy Central for many years

[lame54]

26. thank you...

I completely forgot about that

Now I'm really confused why Stewart didn't use that example - it would have been perfect for the segment

[AlbertCat]

28. He conveniently left out...firing of Bill Maher

If you follow the link and watch the video of the segment, you will see he makes a whole "schpeil" about it. The 1st one too, I think.

[catzies]

10. He had me at “Fox, shut the fuck up." n/t

[Rex]

11. Someone needs to sue Fox over false advertisement.

The even say (at Foxnews) they are entertainers...so why the fuck do I see the word NEWS on their logo? Wouldn't that make them journalists? Shouldn't that read Fox Entertainment Channel?

[Utopian Leftist]

13. Yeah, and when did hypocrisy become an acceptable component of American culture?

It wasn't so very long ago that both sides were eager to have true debates about issues.

Now the only people debating ISSUES (rather than ideologies) are those on the left. The right, in mass hysteria, has lost its collective mind. That is bad news for everyone. I'd much rather be beaten by a Republican in a fair debate than live to see the level of discourse stoop to the point where they become able to rationalize blatant hypocrisy. Evil breeds when all channels of true communication are cut off in that way.

[Uncle Joe]

14. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Amerigo Vespucci.

[tanyev]

15. Loved it when Will Farrell came out later wearing his comedy helmet.

[LiberalLovinLug]

16. That was hillarious

But I absolutely loved this smackdown on the poor-widdle-me whining by the pundits on the multi-billion dollar empire they work for. Especially when, after showing clips of FAUXs ranting about how "if you call it comedy you can get away with anything", Stewart shows clips of them defending Rush because "hey it was just a joke, he's an entertainer"

[tclambert]

23. I would love it if all comedians started wearing comedy helmets.

and not tell anybody why.

[malaise]

18. Thanks for this

Fell asleep last night

[sarcasmo]

19. Smackdown!

[unionworks]

20. the entire show

....was just awesome!!!

[lostnote12]

21. Rush recieved a Congressional award from Newt.

......after the "contract" BS netted them a majority in the house.....That was a pretty damned funny contract, I mean joke on the nation wasn't it "FoxWads"....

[BootinUp]

22. very good Jon. nt

[The Wizard]

25. The right wing extremist

media is very well versed in making white Christians perceiving themselves as victims of everyone and every thing that isn't like them. From welfare queens, to convicts on furlough, to immigrants and all those with skin tones a shade darker, to George Soros, all have been harming white Christians in ways so insidious that it takes the right wing extremist media to spew fear mongering propaganda to get their victims to vote against their own best interests. Somewhere Goebbels is green with envy or just mold.

[L0oniX]

32. Oh that was just precious ....+1000000000