Friday, September 19, 2008

Colbert and Stewart: Truth-telling Reporting at Its Best

Stephen Colbert Gives John McCain the “McCain Treatment”

From www.crooksandliars.com

After definitively proving that John McCain has been entirely consistent with his attacks on Barack Obama, Stephen decides to try out some of the same “consistency” on McCain himself.

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“For the record, John McCain has not accepted my invitation to appear on this show, so unfortunately I have no choice but to spread horrible lies about him. Here we go: John McCain wants to harvest the organs of sleeping toddlers, inject RedBull into his taint, and is determined to run a campaign based on straight talk and decency. Phew. Thank God none of that is true.”

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September 19th, 2008

Jon Stewart slams Hannity’s “hard-hitting” Palin interview

From www.crooksandliars.com

Jon dissects Sean Hannity’s ridiculous, sycophantic interview with hockey mom Sarah Palin.

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Hannity: Is Senator Obama then using what happened on Wall Street this week? Is he using it for political gain? Is there a danger of a presidential candidate is saying to the world that America’s situation of economic crisis is the worst that we’ve seen in decades — which was words that he was using yesterday — is there a danger in terms of the world hearing that?

Stewart: “I mean, Sarah, answer this for me: Shouldn’t we be lying to the world? For instance, what if we told the world the stock market was like golf scores, lower numbers are better. Apparently for Sean Hannity, the greatest in an economic free-fall is acknowledging it. It’s the Wile E. Coyote theory applied to economics.”

The juxtaposition with the late night debt-relief infomercial is priceless.

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