Just drink a few of Robertson's age-defying shakes and that will make you feel better. Or traffick diamonds with the dictator of Zaire.

Hannity apologized? How, well, non-Republican of him.

Note to the Media:

It never, EVER pays to trade barbs with The Daily Show. You can't win.

I prefer: Fox News- We distort, You buy it.

you start paying attention to those zombies like hannity and pat robertson, pretty soon you're like that kid in that horror movie who sees dead people -- and worse, he has to talk to bruce willis throughout the whole thing.

just not worth it

Cable/Sat companies bundle TBN and their spawn into their basic packages. Discussions of scrapping the bundle concept with pay-per-channel invokes opposition from the purveyors of TBN and their spawn who sob that under such arrangements no one would choose to pay for their crap. Nice to know that even they know the value of what they offer.

Hannity apologized? How, well, non-Republican of him.

Not to worry. Saying "it pains me to say it" while emphasizing Stewart is from Comedy Central, and then glossing it over with "it was an inadvertent mistake" all while ending with thanking Stewart and "all his writers" for watching his show, is very Republican of him.

Didn't someone recently say, it's not so much the fact that Republican governance over the last 8 years was completely disastrous for the country that is hurting them at the polls so much as the fact that they're complete assholes.

Wasn't Hannity supposed to say "I take full responsibility"? (Translation: Nothing will change)

Hannity snickers as he ostensibly tells Stewart "you wouldn't have seen it if you weren't watching me". What Hannity doesn't get is that some people watch Hannity like they watch surveillance camera video: to catch the perp in the act.

My favorite Steve Benen blog posts from the 2008 election season were the ones titled:

"I watch GOP primary debates so you don't have to"

Sacrifices like watching GOP debates have to be honored every veteran's day...

-now that the Daily Show consistently critiques the MSM, those who produce the consitently vile pap will pay closer attention to the "facts".

Nah. . .

Wow. I have the same TV as Jon Stewart.

30 years ago used to watch Falwell on Sunday nights w/ beer in hand. Hasn't affected me negatively...so far.

IF I'm going to watch one of those programs, I've always been partial to Mother Angelica.

Years ago, while suffering a bout of Mono and stuck in my student hovel with a 13" B&W TV with no cable (yes, life used to be just that primitive), I ended up watching a lot of 700 Club, because it was the only thing on sometimes and other times because I didn't have the energy to get up and change the channel (there was a time when you did have to actually get up and walk to the monitor and change the channel by twisting a dial). I have to say that the immediate reaction was one of horror...how could this kind of crap be on TV? We were in the middle of the Iran hostage crisis and the anti-Muslim rhetoric was over-the-top (Even with that, I was still taken by surprise by the anti-Muslim rhetoric that followed 911, which made what I was watching in 1980 look like a kumbaya mushy ecumenical exercise). Eventually I learned to distill some entertainment from the show, which was still like a trip to the twilight zone for me.

A few years later I was in a graduate seminar for what subject I don't remember, but somehow the subject of religion in America came up and I mentioned the 700 Club, which most of the members of the seminar had never heard of and after I explained what it was they all looked at like I had two heads. The unanimous opinion after I finished my explanation and voiced my concern that this was taking real fringe religion mainstream, was that this was just some bizarre aberration, a modern day electrical version of the snake handlers of the Applachians and not something to be taken too seriously. About 5 years later Pat Robertson was running for President and had finally made his big splash on the national stage so I felt vindicated. Now, there is the secularization of what Robertson started (applying basic, well-worn, time tested daytime TV formats to what otherwise would be a fringe religious movement and making it digestable for the TV viewing audience) as FOX uses the same principle to sell lunatic fringe conspiracy theory to the viewing public. Now a Liberty University graduate is governor of Virginia and they have burrowed in deep in the Department of Justice and I am just plain scared.

When it comes to media criticism,it's not so much that nobody does it better than TDS, it's that nobody does it at all.
From the TDS takedown of CNN's pathetic fact check of the SNL skit but otherwise we'll have to leave it there to the jabs at all the other cable buffoons (look there's the guy who was convicted of a felony against the US; who now on Fox is a "hero") TDS is the sanest show on the television.
This country is so fucked.

It reminds me of the coverage of Congressman's Hank Johnson's town hall meeting. He is African-American, representing a mostly AA district. "News" reports were published of people waiting in line, all Euro-Americans, and Republicans claimed the huge crowd was all from out of his district. I was there. There were plenty of people of different shades. As is common, they tended to congregate in groups of similar shades. Depending on where you chose to point your camera, you could "prove" anything you wanted about the racial makeup of the crowd.