'Daily Show' Destroys CNN For Fact-Checking 'SNL' Instead Of Their Guests (VIDEO)

[democracy1st]

Attn watch the video it's about CNN's horribly weak interviews NOT "SNL"

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Jon Stewart began his show last night by skewering CNN for fact checking a "Saturday Night Live" skit in which Fred Armisen (playing Barack Obama) claimed to have done "nothing" since taking office. In this hard hitting report, CNN found that while many of the president's initiatives have not moved forward, he has in fact done "something" since taking office. Take that, comedy show.

"While you were doing your research did you also find that sharks live in water and don't deliver candy grams...and that the majority of boxes do not have d*cks in them?" Stewart asked. He went on to show several instances of CNN guests saying spurious things and introducing made-up statistics without being asked where their numbers came from or countered with facts.

At the end of 11-minute segment, Stewart brought in Aasif Mandvi and John Oliver to put the final nails in CNN's coffin. "They're the most professional network in the business, three times more professional. Most people agree they have 20 to 35 to 70% more facts," Mandvi claimed. Oliver countered with this: "They are goat f**kers."

Example of Stewart's Brilliance:
Tony Perkins US pop. 330 million wrong
Tony Perkins the number is 30 million or so that don't have insurance it keeps changing wrong
Tony Perkins 5-10 million people who can't afford insurance wrong

CNN allows this clown to repeat these lies,and they want to fact check SNL LMAO, WOW man the repubs lie LOL


Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/13/daily-show-destroys-cnn-f_n_318295.html

[joeycola]

1. fact checking satire is stupid. Good for Stewart

[timeforpeace]

2. The more people complain about SNL skewering Obama, the more they will do it. It's called ratings.

[Ozymanithrax]

3. SNL skewers ever President. It is called comedy. That is what they do.

Late night hosts skewer Presidents when they are now skewering themselves for screwing their employees. That is what they do.

When comics skewer new organizations for sloppy (actually non-existent) fact checking, that is priceless.

[valerief]

4. Thanks for posting this thread about TDS commenting on CNN (and not about

TDS commenting on SNL, as posters #2 and #3 would like to have you believe).

It was an amazing skewering of CNN (the goatfucker channel not the news channel) by Stewart.

[democracy1st]

5. +1

[Fumesucker]

6. CNN: Fact checking ourselves, impossible..

Fact checking satire, priceless.

Goatfuckers indeed..

[daleanime]

7. CNN....

"No body leaves more things there." :rofl: T-shirt!

[gkhouston]

8. It was one of The Daily Show's best opening segments, ever, and a wonderful

send-up of the crap that passes for "news" these days. I can't recommend this segment enough, for its humor or its biting accuracy. The Daily Show nailed it.

[unpossibles]

9. It was brilliant

And more than a little sad, and one of the main reasons I seldom watch cable "news" - they'd rather have controversy and screaming at each other than accurate information. It's a sham.

[democracy1st]

10. I had to watch that segment twice just to let it sink in,unbelievable