re: Jon Stewart Learns What Happens When You Criticize Israel.

You say that like you think it'd offend me or something.

I don't watch or listen to either of them, just pointing out they don't try to infer something they aren't, unlike Maher and Stewart.

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I think he obviously leans left, but does take some shots at both sides.

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For sure.

Hes very objective during his interviews.

When was this interview?

It's a bunch of spin from you though. Everyone knows he's a lefty. Liberals don't claim he's not based (well the libtards might, but they're tards). Conservatives dislike him because he's liberal. It's known and accepted as fact from both sides. Quit trying to act like people think he's some centrist. At least he'll actually point out liberals being ridiculous too.

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Quit trying to act like people think he's some centrist

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That's pretty much what his fans are saying in this thread. Just a post below yours, one is saying how he's objective.

eta- heck.. I've stated Rush and OReilly are right sided all the way, am I suddenly now objective and unbiased?

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Why do so many people try to take his show so seriously? Damn, just watch and enjoy it.

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His fans believe everything he says and uses it for their news source, for the most part. (Not all, but a majority).

He is fair in his interviews. He's got a POV, but he's a fair interviewer.

It's why he gets righties on the show with some frequency, because they get a fair shake even if he disagrees.

Perhaps. I haven't watched in ages, so I can't say what he does now on interviews. I just find him unfunny and pompous, like most left leaning types who act as if their liberal ideas are moderate or central. To each their own in their personal tastes in entertainment though.

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I just find him unfunny and pompous

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Fair enough. I can see the pompous at times.

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To each their own in their personal tastes in entertainment though

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Certainly. My defense of Jon here is simply because I thought the criticism was unfair to what he actually is. I like fairness.

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His fans believe everything he says and uses it for their news source, for the most part. (Not all, but a majority).

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Stewart always says to get your news from other sources than his show. Although his show is probably a better source of news than Fox, CNN or MSNBC

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FDU political scientist Dan Cassino said the results show “Ideological news sources, like Fox and MSNBC, are really just talking to one audience…. This is solid evidence that if you’re not in that audience, you’re not going to get anything out of watching them.”

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“None of the other news media had effects that depended on ideology,” says the report.

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The largest effect is that of Fox News: all else being equal, someone who watched only Fox News would be expected to answer just 1.04 domestic questions correctly — a figure which is significantly worse than if they had reported watching no media at all.

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He was on with Chris Matthews, not on his own show. He was lambasting how Fox was so biased, to which Matthews simply asked if he could admit that MSNBC was left biased. He repeatedly characterized and said they were fair and balanced and in no way like Fox News. Guy couldn't even be a little bit honest.

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I've looked and can't find it. Thats unchacteristic of Stewart as he generally lumps CNN, Fox and MSNBC together in the crap column.

In the second interview with Matthews I linked he even asks Matthews why MSNBC has decided to head in the direction Fox did