By this point, we all know the details of former CNN anchor Rick Sanchez’s fall from grace. As fast as he rose from fill-in anchor in the mid-2000s to host of a two-hour, social media-inspired afternoon broadcast, Rick’s List, he was out the door, taken down by one of the great taboos left standing in…
Watch Jon Stewart’s “Daily Show” response to former CNN anchor Rick Sanchez’s assertion that Stewart is a bigot: here.
Jews run CNN? And the larger news industry? It was just one of many head-turning statements that TV news anchor Rick Sanchez made yesterday while appearing on “Stand Up! With Pete Dominick” on Sirius radio. “I think Jon Stewart’s a bigot,” he exclaimed, then later clarified, “All right, I’ll take the word bigot back; I’ll…
-It’s not always sunny in Florida for independent senatorial candidate Charlie Crist. The state’s Republican party released an audit showing that Florida Governor Crist — until recently a Republican — charged to the party over $381,000 expenses not “primarily” related to official party work, including a trip to … Disney World. (Florida Times-Union) -In a…
Last night “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart” debuted the Forward’s now-famous Paul Rudd bat mitzvah video, of the “Dinner for Schmucks” star making a living as a DJ in the early 90s. Check out the hilarious clip below (Rudd appears at the very end, after all the other brouhaha). We just love the jacket!
Here, for your viewing delight, is Jon Stewart’s appearance on Fox News’ “The O’Reilly Factor,” in three parts. The interview ran over two nights, Tuesday, February 3 (Parts 1 and 2 below) and Wednesday, February 4 (Part 3 below). The whole thing is a fascinating exercise in the current state of the media-politics-entertainment nexus and…
Showing, apparently, the audacity to hate, Hamas are still producing virulently antisemitic children’s cartoons. In the face of crass hypocritical vitriol that is geopolitically and socially destructive the Daily Show had no real option but to set Dr. Bagelman (erstwhile producer of Jewby Doo) on to introduce them. The whole sequence is unbelievable but the…
You may have read in our Bintel Blog recently about cultural critic Ron Rosenbaum and his July 24 manifesto in Slate, calling on Jon Stewart to show his ethnic pride and reclaim his birth name, Jonathan Leibowitz. It’s almost as if the Leibowitz in you is trying desperately to escape from behind the mask of…
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