Stewart destroys Hannity for a second night this week

By David Edwards and Daniel Tencer
Friday, November 13th, 2009 -- 10:59 am
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seanhannity Stewart destroys Hannity for a second night this weekComedy Central's Jon Stewart didn't have a complete nervous breakdown from watching an episode of Fox News' Hannity, but he sure made a strong case that, well, you could.

In a skit on Thursday night's Daily Show, Stewart was shown watching the Fox program hosted by Sean Hannity in order to see Hannity apologize after the Daily Show exposed the fact the network had used footage from the Sept. 12 Tea Party protest to make last week's Capitol Hill anti-tax protest seem larger than it was.

Stewart appeared to grow progressively more paranoid and desperate from watching the show as Hannity and his guests spent the better part of the show discussing the Fort Hood shooting with terms like "radical jihadism" and "Muslim soldiers gone wild," before moving on to breathless coverage of the H1N1 vaccine shortage.

Finally, Hannity addressed the controversy over the Tea Party footage.

"Although it pains me to say this, Jon Stewart, Comedy Central, he was right," Hannity said. "We screwed up. It was an inadvertent mistake. So Mr. Stewart, you were right, we apologize."

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By that point, Stewart is shown curled up in a fetal position and close to tears.

"It wasn't worth it," Stewart sobs. "Nothing's worth sitting through this."

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

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Story comments are below...
  • m3t
    "You don't have to apologise to meeeee, I expect that stuff!!!"

    Indeed, we've come to expect mis-using wrong video clips, giving bullshit inflated figures on protests, "accidentally" mis-labeling disgraced Republicans as Democrats and so on... not just isolated incidents either... this is the modus operandi of Fox "News".

    Distort, spin, lie and deceive for the GOP... Fox "News" is a pathetic excuse for journalism.
  • Subrational
    How can anyone actually watch or listen to Hannity and the criminal Oliver North?
  • decora
    if they took all the criminals off tv there'd be nothing to watch
  • Elfap
    mind control and stupidity
  • matticusfinch
    you are so right.
  • matticusfinch
    BRILLIANTTTTTTT!!!!
  • lorn
    Why are there half a dozen fluff stories here every day about some pseudo journalist getting into a bun fight with some celebrity or pop culture icon? Why are these types of fluff stories always open to comment while serious ones about Obama building up troop levels, expanding Bush war crimes, selling out the people to corporate interests and so on are usually closed to comments.

    This happens too often to be coincidence.
    Is raw protecting Democrats by generally closing stories which embarrass them to comments?
  • matticusfinch
    Omg i have wondered the same thing!! i was reading some of the serious stories on here earlier and there was no comment option. but on these bullshit filler stories there is comment options. Its pretty obvious this is a left leaning site, not only that but they have to compete with Politico and Huffington which are now nothing but sensationalistc fluff news tabloid sites. gotta get those story hits. people like trash news, serious stories make them think too much and god forbid face reality and have to do something about it.
  • falconium
    Raw Story is a left leaning site? Really? Thanks for the tip, genius.
  • dbeall
    So I guess that means you watch Hannity and regard Fox as a legitimate news source. Thats all an educated person needs to know.
  • matticusfinch
    Me watch corporate media? LMAO! Yeah no, Fox News is shit and MSNBC and CNN are shit too. i feel sorry for people who watch corporate media or faux "alternative" media for objective, truthful news. You gotta find the truth, you aint gonna get it from sitting infront of a TV with some talking head saying wordz to you.

    but you think i get my news from fox....lmao thats the funniest damn thing i have read all day. Thanks lmao!
  • dbeall
    Good for you. Hopefully you get your inforamtion from overseas since US
    media tends to pander their mental midget and brainwashed aud audience.
  • matticusfinch
    yeah but you gotta be wary of that too. Just like our media is tailored to tell and inform the american people of only things we are allowed to know, other parts of the worlds media is tailored to what the elite agenda is in those nations. Look up a documentary called "WMD:Weapons of mass distraction" it explains it very well.

    My whole philosophy on news is read everything, believe nothing unless you can verify it in your own research. It's served me pretty well.
  • dbeall
    Well other Countries don't spend all their time with totally vaccuous
    debates on health care, abortion, energy (all problems that are relatively
    easy to mitigate) and don't contain 53% of the Population believing the
    planet was created 7,000 years ago and do not have whole States with idiotic
    notions like mormonism. In no other developed Country would 47% of the
    people be willing to have Palin as the most powerful person in the world.
    Most Country's have a standard 20% of the population that is that
    delusional. My kids attend US high school and the level of nationalistic
    brainwashing is not so far removed from places like China. US Media can not
    speak truth to people, because people can not handle the truth, and their
    rating would tank. The reason why the US Car Industry is in the tank is
    because tne consumers demanded retarded vehicles and voted for pee brained
    politicinas who then colluded with a dying industry.
  • lorn
    just a quick drive by dbeall?

    Typical response from a die hard kool aid junkie..........take any and all criticism of the dear Messiah of hope and change.............and just attack the person with a slander as a right wing FOXNews nut. How typical, and wrong.

    I want peace, and a quick end to our wars, an honest inquiry into Bush torture crimes and into 911, and an end to corporate welfare, and health care. I am a Liberal, but I dared to criticize the holy man so his minions attack with slander and false accusations.

    Obama = Bush
    Sadly that math works well for their devoted as well.
  • dbeall
    Well I am glad you have a sensible agenda. I did not know that I was a
    minion of Jon Stewart - but I do believe comedey central (Stewart, Colbert,
    South park) is about the only place where people interested in facts and
    truths can find any satisfaction.
  • matticusfinch
    yeah the fact that we have to get facts and truths from comedy shows like south park and the daily show is perfect example of how far this country has fallen and how bad the media has failed the american people.
  • lorn
    Comedy throughout history has been used to speak truths too painful to be discussed in the open. It has value, and I too enjoy watching Butters drive Cartman up the wall and uncensored!
    But there is so much more out there..
    OK friend, here is some real truth for you, no comedy and loads of satisfaction, enjoy!

    http://www.globalresearch.ca/

    Peace.
  • mohawkpoint
    Really? No difference? And you claim you understand the realities of politics and news? Are you serious? Obama has made many important decisions completely contrary to the Bush agenda. Are you ignorant of them all? Or are you just stupid?
  • lorn
    Name one, kool aid junkie!

    More war in Afghanistan, check
    New war in Pakistan, check
    Stay the Bush course in Iraq, check
    Bail out corporate America's Banks, check
    Screw American people on health care, check
    Beat drums of war against Iran, check
    Vote to condemn UN war crimes report which called for Palestinians to be treated like human beings, check
    Keep up Bush torture abuses and lie about them like Bush did, check
    Defund abortion for poor people with the new health care act................WOW, not even W Bush had the balls to try that.

    What "many important decisions" are you referring to, pointy?
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