Jon Stewart Asks: Is Congressional Insider Trading Unethical If It's Legal?
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.
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Jon Stewart just wanted to say goodbye to his viewers before he took off for the summer to make a movie. But his replacement, correspondent John Oliver, just had to get involved.
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.
Since every candidate is doing it, pandering may seem pretty easy. But as Jon Stewart discovers, it's pretty easy to slip up.
With today's primary vote in Florida, the Republican infighting between Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich has gotten contentious.
Jon Stewart covered the other two branches of the government well enough, but where's the love for the Supreme Count?
Jon Stewart was a standup comic, so he knows how to it feels to bomb a joke like President Obama did with that spilled milk one during Tuesday's State of the Union address.
A genuinely angry seeming Jon Stewart tore into Mitt Romney yesterday night for all the various rich-guy ways he got his tax rate down to 13.9 percent.
The latest plot twist in Stephen Colbert's continuing civics lesson on campaign finance came last night: he announced that he would not run for president and demanded Jon Stewart give him back his but The Daily Show host refused. We asked a lawyer what's going on.
Newt Gingrich's indignation over being asked about his ex's open-marriage allegation during Friday night's debate raised plenty of eyebrows, including those of Jon Stewart, who couldn't help but take the time to lay into for the former speaker three days later.
Off word that Newt Gingrich's (second) ex-wife would give ABC a tell-all interview, Jon Stewart had yet another chance to lay into the former speaker for all his past infidelities.
Jon Stewart used yesterday's online protests to weigh in on the Stop Online Piracy Act last night, which actually seemed to put him in a tough spot.
In his deepest dive yet into the intricacies of campaign finance law, Stephen Colbert blazed through a series of open-ended questions about super PACs last night, and even schooled at least one seasoned political reporter.
The power of being in charge of the Definitely Not Coordinating with Stephen Colbert Super PAC has gone to Jon Stewart's head as he spent The Daily Show lavishly spending money on frittatas.
On Wednesday Jon Stewart tackled the 1-2-3 finish of Romney, Paul, and Huntsman in New Hampshire, so last night he made sure he didn't ignore the always-lovable and ever-make-fun-able Newt Gingrich, for came in fourth.
In the wake of Mitt Romney's unshocking win in New Hampshire, Jon Stewart took a look at the more interesting contests of Tuesday night: the race for second and third.
Jon Stewart couldn't tackle the New Hampshire primary since polls closed after he filmed, but that didn't stop him from weighing in on one the GOP field's favorite punching bags: Iran.
If the contentious Republican presidential field can agree on anything anymore, it's that the free market is king and the Democrats' "class warfare" against it is wrong. So why, Jon Stewart asks, have the rest of the GOP hopefuls ganged up on Mitt Romney for being rich?
Jon Stewart looked at the high-pitched rhetoric over President Obama's recess appointments and compared the outrage over the relatively arcane and minor bureaucratic loophole with the complete lack of outrage over his more clear-cut expansions of presidential authority.
It was one of those opposition research kind of nights on The Daily Show, and the host delivered a simple message about Newt Gingrich to GOP voters: "Don't do this."
It's the time of the year for new features, and Jon Stewart just launched one called "Balls of the Week," a dubious prize that went to Barack Obama for asking Iran for our spy drone back.
Last night, Jon Stewart huddled with Larry Wilmore to see if they could figure out GOP frontrunner Newt Gingrich's "ideas" about child labor laws: that underprivileged kids should clean bathrooms or do other work at their schools.
Sure, like everyone else, Jon Stewart spent plenty of time discussing the $10,000 Mitt Romney bet with Rick Perry, but the host also returned to a familiar narrative: Ron Paul may have "killed it" at the debate, but what kind of press did he get from it?
Appraising the one-upsmanship seen among the candidates at the Republican Jewish Coalition forum, Jon Stewart handed out a few honors for the impressive moments and docked Mitt Romney for botching a Seinfeld joke.
The downing of the super-secret RQ-170 drone in Iran resulted in plenty of head-scratching reports about how it happened, so Jon Stewart offered his own theories for why the aspiring nuke nation now has our spy technology.
The potentially hilarious Donald Trump moderated GOP debate has had few contenders sign up so far, and Jon Stewart made it clear last night why they might be hesitant: Trump "can't ever let anything go."
Jon Stewart is sorry to see any Pokémon-quoting candidate suspend his campaign, so to memorialize Herman Cain's run coming to an end, he cued up his own inspirational moments from Pokémon: the Movie 2000.
Last night, Brian Williams did another thing that firefighting blogs might chide a former volunteer firefighter like himself for doing: he concocted a fake alarm to interrupt Jon Stewart during a clip reviewing Williams unflappable on air alarm moment on Tuesday.
Last night Jon Stewart bid a brief farewell to Barney Frank, who, he notes, might just be missed most by the conservatives who were giddy at the news of the 16-term congressman's upcoming retirement.
Missing out on the action during The Daily Show's week off, Jon Stewart pondered the proliferation of pepper spray across the nation.
The latest conservative Daily Show wannabe, B.S. of A from Glenn Beck, follows a lengthy list of failure in the right's attempt to mint a Jon Stewart of their own.
It took the resurrection of Newt Gingrich for Jon Stewart to dredge up a familiar refrain: since pundits give every contender the momentary spotlight (before declaring them "dead"), why can't Ron Paul become the fleeting media darling?
Last night, The Daily Show stirred up class divisions between Occupy Wall Street protesters, airing a pre-eviction segment of correspondent Samantha Bee visiting Zuccotti Park and framing it as a microcosm of the city: complete with different sections for poorer and richer seeming protesters.
Jon Stewart addressed that disturbing, disastrous phone interview that accused child abuser Jerry Sandusky had with Bob Costas, and the host said he could spot lying when he saw it, saying of the former defense cordinator: "It's like in that phone conversation you're actually fighting the urge to come clean."
This is a Daily Show clip that you don't see often: In appraising the latest GOP debate, Jon Stewart had a few semi-agreeable things to say about the foreign policy remarks of candidates he frequently mocks, Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum.
Minutes before picking over what's left to discuss about Rick Perry's now-infamous brain freeze, Jon Stewart made one thing clear to Republicans: "You are now stuck with Mitt ... He is the winner, we're calling it tonight. It's over."
Around the same time as last night's GOP debate, Jon Stewart chatted with House Minority leader Nancy Pelosi, who had one idea for helping to reduce America's debt: put the Super Committee on TV.
The decisions that Jon Corzine was held responsible for as CEO of the now-bankrupt MF Global were ones he had been warning against only a bit earlier as New Jersey governor, as Jon Stewart laid out in a series of clips on last night's Daily Show.
As the Herman Cain sexual harassment story spirals out of control, Jon Stewart takes a look back at the Politico report that kick-started the frenzy and offers a little journalism reminder for those questioning the news outlet's use of anonymous sourcing.
Congressional rhetoric (jobs, jobs, jobs) does not match Congressional reality (petty symbolic votes), Jon Stewart notes, especially when the House of Representatives can get into a tizzy about reaffirming the American motto "In God We Trust."
Jon Stewart got around to addressing Donald Trump's YouTube declaration that the host got away "with a very, very racist rant" about Herman Cain's sexual harassment accusations.
Players: Jon Stewart, host of The Daily Show and a not-so-good, equal-opportunity impersonator; Donald Trump, billionaire and one-time Republican frontrunner who's been impersonated (well and badly) many times.
Jon Stewart had a lot of material to cover on Monday night, spending a segment discussing Rick Perry's highly animated New Hampshire speech and wading into the resurfaced accusations of sexual harassment against Herman Cain.
In all the drama of the 2012 Republican primary, The Daily Show host centered in on the mystery of Mitt Romney's ever-steady results in the polls: "How has he managed to neither gain nor lose support?"
Ron Paul can't get any attention despite fundraising and organizing successes, while Herman Cain is getting too much attention despite fundraising and organizing failures.
In his Wednesday round up of Occupy Wall Steet protesters nationwide, Jon Stewart looked at what's been happening in Oakland, Ca., and wondered if there wasn't a better way for the city to keep the peace.
Last night, Jon Stewart sized up the recent "jokes" of Rick Perry and Herman Cain, and spots a trend in the sense of humor of the GOP candidates.
On Monday night, Jon Stewart took a familiar tack, skewering GOP leaders for promptly deeming the withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Iraq a failure.
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