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Stephen Colbert is laughing at the U.S. Supreme Court. He started Thursday night on his show, when he transferred control of his super PAC to his mentor, business partner and friend Jon Stewart. Here is the clip:
It’s a great set piece of comedic theater underscored by a serious argument: Justice Anthony Kennedy, joined by a majority on the Supreme Court, issued a ruling in 2010 rewriting the nation’s campaign-finance rules that is, on its face, pretty absurd.
Sarah Palin has started another Facebook flame war, this time with a reporter at the Wall Street Journal. On Monday, Sudeep Reddy took issue with a line from a recent Palin critique of the Federal Reserve’s new program of quantitative easing: “Everyone who ever goes out shopping for groceries knows that prices have risen significantly [...]
It’s been quite a week for my Make Them Filibuster campaign. Two high-profile endorsements! First, Governor Ed Rendell and now historian Doris Kearns Goodwin. Here’s what she told Jon Stewart last night on the Daily Show: Let them filibuster. You realize how great they’re going to look, these Republicans, trying not to go to the [...]
In the cable news game, there is rarely any reason to stand down. The more the fight, the better the ratings. But there is one guy that television gasbags cannot defeat, no matter how they may exclaim, proclaim or defame. That guy is Jon Stewart. On Friday, MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann bowed before the master, and [...]
More evidence that a Daily Show’s little left toe is more compelling than all the YouTube muscle at Media Matters. A Fox take down for the ages:
