In the wake of what he is calling "Hurricane Scandy," Jon Stewart last night looked at Obama's defense strategy: sending out a random guy to Sunday morning talk shows.
Delta Airlines has taken some criticism for pulling their ads from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart after the Catholic League protested a coy image of woman with her legs spread, but a Delta spokeperson told The Atlantic Wire Thursday the decision wasn't pegged to the Catholic League's campaign.
On Tuesday, The Daily Show host dinged Obama for his cold feet on gay marriage. So Jon Stewart had to walk back his admonition of Obama a bit on last night's Daily Show, after this president's coming out party.
Jon Stewart thinks he's figured out the Obama administration's convoluted, "evolving" position on gay marriage once and for all.
"So what happens when you combine disparate European countries, with a variety of cultures and languages, one made-up currency, a global financial meltdown, and a social safety net that offers workers 30 weeks paid vacation, full pension at age 26 and cradle-to-grave chocolate?" Jon Stewart asked on yesterday's Daily Show.
One might think the controversy of Chen Guangcheng, the Chinese man who escaped house arrest and sought asylum in the U.S. embassy, would be the Chinese government's fault, since they arrested the blind human-rights activist in the first place.
Jon Stewart has noticed two things related to Mitt Romney's Mormonism as he's locked up the GOP nomination.
Even The Daily Show host admits it: the Obama campaign ad questioning whether Romney would have pulled the trigger (so to speak) on Osama bin Laden wasn't in good taste.
It's one of the very, very few issues Democrats and Republicans can agree on: Preventing the rate on federally-subsidized student loans from doubling this summer.
Reading into Mitt Romney's victory speech on Tuesday night, Jon Stewart sees signs of a rebooted candidate.
The Secret Service scandal has drawn scrutiny to the agency in areas not even associated with this embarrassing episode of short-changing prostitutes in Colombia.
"Denying interest in being vice president is pro forma in politics," Jon Stewart said on last night's Daily Show.
Some Fox News contributors—Charles Krauthammer, Sarah Palin, and especially Dick Morris—are in a bit of a pickle, Jon Stewart noticed last night on The Daily Show.
Forget "important" things like policy. On yesterday's Daily Show, Jon Stewart went straight to the heart of what every American wants to know: Which presidential candidate is funnier?
How much greater is $47 billion than $300 million? A lot, since that first figure is two orders of magnitude larger than the second. But you wouldn't know it from listening to Senate Republicans debating the Buffett Rule.
What of this media firestorm surrounding the once little-known Hilary Rosen?
The state of Florida finally did what it should have done a month and a half ago and arrested George Zimmerman for the shooting death of Trayvon Martin.
While trying to understand two of the bigger stories to come out of the the world of tech, Jon Stewart realizes that he's a bit too old to really understand either of them.
"We've already conceded defeat in the Christmas v. Hanukkah kerfuffle," Jon Stewart joked last night on The Daily Show. And with Passover and Easter coinciding this year, Stewart realizes that Jewish people are losing Round 2 of the Judeo-Christian Holiday Showdown, too.
The ludicrous $800,000 Las Vegas bender thrown by the Government Services Administration, an agency responsible for managing government spending, is so laced with irony that Jon Stewart just had to take notice.
On yesterday's The Daily Show, we get a healthy reminder of just how done the Republican race is from Jon Stewart's reading of the news.
As Jon Stewart pointed out on The Daily Show last night, Sarah Palin needs the media to bash just as much as the media needs Palin to report on.
Everyone knows that Mitt Romney doesn't have the fanatical support of a Ron Paul or even a Rick Santorum, but what does it say about the candidate if even the powerful people endorsing him don't seem excited about his candidacy?
More than two hours before MSNBC host Rachel Maddow was due to arrive, the line at the Union Square Barnes & Noble last night was already stretching as far back as the audiobooks section in the far corner of the massive building's massive top floor.
On yesterday's Daily Show, Jon Stewart waded into a Supreme Court case hyped to be bigger than Bush v. Gore and United States v. Nixon combined.
On The Daily Show last night, Jon Stewart calls out the beef's industry's public-relations spin on "lean, finely textured beef," a classy name given to a classless beef byproduct everyone else is calling "pink slime."
After Jon Stewart weighed in on Lawrence O'Donnell grilling an empty chair and Rick Santorum chewing out a New York Times reporter, he took on the big issue of the day. Yes, The Daily Show went to The Park Slope Food Coop.
Back from a week-long vacation, The Daily Show host tried to avoid the low-hanging fruit among the stories he missed -- Dick Cheney's heart transplant -- and weigh in on the meatier subject of the Trayvon Martin shooting.
On last night's Daily Show, Jon Stewart followed up on perhaps the only story coming out of Syria that could be called funny: a batch of Bashar al-Assad's personal emails that were leaked to The Guardian.
Tuesday was suppose to be a "last stand" for Gingrich, who's pinned his nomination hope on Mississippi and Alabama, so Jon Stewart is surprised to see Newt chalking up his second-place finishes in the states as a victory.
As the brouhaha continues over Rush Limbaugh's "slut" comment, Jon Stewart took a look at how the right is covering the story, asking, how should Fox News handle the recent dose of Rush-brand hate-mongering?
Invisible Children has done more to raise the profile of Joseph Kony in a 30-minute YouTube video than the mainstream media has with several decades of coverage, and Jon Stewart can't help but notice some hard feelings in the way they cover the story.
After Sean Hannity rolled-out the late Andrew Breitbart's "big" video reveal of a young Barack Obama hugging controversial Harvard professor Derrick Bell, Jon Stewart reminds Hannity that there's more recent footage he could have used to make Obama look bad.
Unfortunately for Jon Stewart, Super Tuesday provided no respite for his election-season fatigue.
As Jon Stewart noted on yesterday's Daily Show, the amped-up rhetoric around a possible Middle Eastern war has produced some funny -- though mostly frightening -- comments from the three actors.
"Personally, I don't get too worked up about the things Rush Limbugh says, because he is -- and has been for many years -- a terrible person," Jon Stewart said on last night's Daily Show.
Never missing an opportunity to rail on Republicans, Jon Stewart took issue with the GOP-backed contraceptive bill debated (and defeated) in the Senate.
Arizona's and Michigan's primary happened Tuesday night, and like many other political pundits, Jon Stewart is experiencing some pre-Super Tuesday fatigue.
After running down the latest Mitt Romney flip-flop, Jon Stewart turned to an old frenemy of his last night: Fox, and its less-than-objective coverage of the economic recovery.
Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum have one thing in common, according to Jon Stewart: Neither can stop making off-key comments while on the campaign trail.
After 19 debates, one may think that there's nothing new that any of the four remaining candidates could say. But as Jon Stewart noted of Tuesday's second-to-last one, they can still surprise us.
In 2008, TV talking heads made all sorts of dubious predictions about the socialist/Muslim/liberal things Barack Obama might do in office if elected president, Jon Stewart pointed out last night.
The FBI announced Tuesday that Viacom receiving "suspicious mailings" addressed to Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart, and the Senate Sergeant at Arms Terrance Gainer reported that three Congressional offices also received suspicious packages containing powdery substances.
Continuing with his "Punanny State" segment, Jon Stewart last night turned his attention to Virginia, which is set to require pregnant women to undergo "trans-vaginal ultrasounds" if they want abortions.
Rep. Darrell Issa's all male debate on contraception raised plenty of eyebrows (including our own) and on Monday night's Daily Show, Jon Stewart weighed in as well.
The Daily Show host promised several episodes ago to permanently shelf jokes on the other meaning of the word "Santorum," but recent coverage of the candidate made that awfully difficult last night.
On The Daily Show last night, Jon Stewart made easy work of a little loophole in insider-trading law for the folks who represent us in Congress.
Jon Stewart wondered last night what's got conservatives so worried about women serving on the front lines in the military.
It was a Sean Hannity segment almost too easy for Jon Stewart to lampoon: a "holy sausage fest" of all-male religious leaders discussing the hot and unavoidable issue of last week, contraception.
Now that Donald Trump's finally made his endorsement for president, he can finally return to political obscurity (fingers crossed), but Jon Stewart wonders why the usually garish and gold-leafed showman went with Mitt Romney.
After Romney's 14 percentage point trouncing of Newt Gingrich, the former speaker shouldn't need Jon Stewart to tell him to tone down his presidential aspirations.
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