Stewart skewers CNN for fact checking Saturday Night Live but not their own guests

By David Edwards
Tuesday, October 13th, 2009 -- 8:37 am
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CNN recently fact checked a Saturday Night Live sketch that criticized President Barack Obama. Jon Stewart wants to know why the network can't be bothered to fact check Republican lawmakers that cite bogus health care reform statistics.

On his Monday Daily Show, Stewart skewered CNN for tearing apart a comedy skit when they don't even bother to fact check their own guests.

"You fact checked an SNL sketch?" Stewart remarked. "That's what you fact checked?... You got together, did some research, and put together a report on a Saturday Night Live Sketch?

"While you were doing your research did you also find that sharks live in water and don't deliver candy grams. That there's no African American equivalent of Mr. Rogers? And that the majority of boxes don't have d*cks in them?"

Then, the Daily Show host turned to CNN's ability to fact check healthcare reform.

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After Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) claimed a bogus figure for the savings medical malpractice reform could save, CNN's John King said the network was "out of time." Kyl, in fact, inflated the medical malpractice figure by a factor of almost 1000 percent.

"Out of time?" Stewart shouts. "Your show's 4 f*cking hours long!"

This video is from Comedy Central's The Daily Show, broadcast Oct. 12, 2009.



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  • no_bullshit
    lasucks 5 hours ago
    will someone explain to me why CNN would have anyone from the washington times on their show?


    Because the 1% of Elitists that control 99% of the Country's wealth (much more than that even after the latest bailout scams) also control the mainstream media. CNN, Fox, NBC, Etc are there to propagandize the leftwing vs rightwing paradigm and keep the middle class divided by BS issues instead of teaming up to oust these crooked bankers and billionaires and take their power away in the interests of the People. Our "elected" officials (puppets) like Obama, Bush, the vast majority of Congress-(sans Ron Paul, Kucinich, a few others) are nothing more than characters in an Elitist play in which they legitimize thievery of the Peoples rights and economy to be shown on the Elitist-Owned Mainstream media outlets. You are all nothing more than "useless eaters" according to these Scumbags like ted turner, Soros, Gates, Rockefeller, Kissinger, Brzezinski, etc.
  • terrymo1
    I guess you mean in so many words,"we screwed"??
  • lasucks
    will someone explain to me why CNN would have anyone from the washington times on their show? the washington times is a mouthpeice for the GOP, that is owned by the Moonies! and then they have some twenty somethings without any cred, as if they have some expertise in anything but twitter....
  • wyrdless
    Funny thing.

    A few years ago, Sun Myung Moon, the head of the moonies, was coronated the prince of peace on earth by around a dozen US senators in the Rayburn Senate office building

    Don't believe it? Watch the video!
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f08clPMODw8
    (minute 20.28 has the scene)
  • rawstorysuspect
    oh well maybe its because CNN is just as much a mouthpiece for the establishment as the Washington Times, but with a different color tie on. stay away from the corporate news, stick with the internet. and no, daily kos does not count as alternative.
  • christoofar
    Leave it to a comedy show on basic cable to speak truth to power.(again)

    Now how f'd up is that?
  • Moonbeams
    I love Jon Stewart. And I'll leave it there.
  • nader paul kucinich gravel
    "Wolf Isaac Blitzer"

    Anderson Baldwin Carter Choate
    Clemente Gonzalez Gravel Grayson
    Kaptur Kucinich McKinney Nader
    Paul Perot Sheehan Ventura
  • What about Grayson?
  • nader paul kucinich gravel
    Good man.
  • Canadian guest
    I may be remembering incorrectly, but I watched that episode on CNN and I am not sure if it was their own research but I remember them discussing that Politfact had done a whole page to verifying the SNL skit. That is where I saw it first on Politifact but then there were a lot of other democrats all over CNN complaining that the skit forgot about all of Obama's accomplishments. There were democrats complaining on Politico as well giving a list of all what he had done that SNL had ignored. My husband and I found it funny that there would be such a democratic backlash to just a skit. These same people loved it when they skewered Palin and especially Hillary Clinton.
  • horacemanoor
    NEWS IS INFOTAINMENT and little more than political propaganda. When they bring in scientists, researchers and experts to discuss what we hear and see daily then I will return.All we ever see are pundits and politicians who HAVE an agenda and divide every issue into repub or democrat, and then tell you what you should be thinking. It's gotta stop and until it does Jon Stewart is far more credible.
  • genep34
    CNN is contributing to the tea bag hysteria in this country. They give equal time to nut cases that wouldn't stand up to the 100 IQ test.

    In short, they give high school ideas relevancy.
  • terrymo1
    Now I have to say,I have met a few pretty smart high schoolers.At least they can think for themselves,much unlike the "tea baggers"!
  • trout
    Classic.
    Enjoy him while you can...
  • S in PA
    He hit one out of the ballpark last night. I luv me some JS!!
  • S in PA
    This is one of the many reasons Jon Stewart is the most trusted newsman.
  • davidrvelasquez
    Goats, schmoats.... then you'd have to post it yourself to Youtube before you'd get CNN's producers' attention, the lazy sods!
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