twest I just don't know why you brought it up in the first place that people who think it's news are funny. As the third comment it is a little derailing and it is not necessary to anybody's point.

Plus we were not talking about the daily show but of a specific daily show show.

Like the news on any "real" news station show fluffy clouds and rainbows  :P

I agree that they only show news they can make fun of but its not like they make it up.... and i would rather "bad" news clips that are represented in a funny way that watching "OMFG WERE ALL DOOOOMED!!!" news on any other station. (i watch a lot of that as well)

This.

And The Daily Show is great.

Let's be serious, everyone knows where Rush, Hannity, and Beck sit on the political spectrum.   Trying to cast them into the same situation as Stuart (ie "not to be taken seriously") is just an attempt to marganalize their views.

You shouldn't trust any political commentator to give you the full story anyways, but narrowing it down to specific people or groups who hold a certain viewpoint is a symptom of personal bias filtering out the people you happen to agree with.   

But really we shouldn't derail this thread because this is a much bigger discussion.

Trust me, I don't agree with the democratic agenda either. I'm an independent above all else. You can throw bill Maher in with Hannity and Limbaugh ect if it makes you feel better. He plays at being a comedian, but takes himself waaay too seriously. He's the kind of person that says "If you're religious, you're and idiot!" and then laughs and laughs and then gets a straight face and says "I'm not joking". I'm an atheist, but I that's still bigoted ignorance. The people I mentioned were just the ones that popped up first.

 Everybody knows where they stand on the political spectrum, but they still take their own extremely biased skewed views as god's honest truth. They don't recognize their own bias, even if everyone else does. Stewart at least says "hey, I'm just being a dick here, this is entertainment don't take me too seriously." Unfortunately when Limbaugh gets up and says "I hope the president of the united states fails miserably" there isn't a punchline, there is no satire, and he doesn't think he's dicking around. He's a joke that doesn't get himself. When the so many in the media are completely full of themselves and need some humbling. Stewart for the most part just dicks around, but he shows his import every once and a while when he goes on crossfire and tells them that they are bad for the country or Kramer and tells him that he's unethical and a tool. I don't see stewart as some great news source or pundit. I see him as a comedian that occasionally makes a good point, and every once and a great while shoves that point in somebody's face. But he recognizes himself as a comedian above all else.

I stopped watching when the general elections started.

The Daily Show was left wing but they used to always be fair.

When they hit election time though... they went crazy... going out of there way to unfairly throw McCain under the bus even though he was one of the Daily Show's biggest supporters and most frequent guests.

It's the same with Keith Oberman. He used to be a funny slightly left guy who gave Bill O'Reily what he deserved.

Then he turned into Left wing Bill O'Reily.  Thankfully with less luffas.

It's sad really... the Democrats are mimicing all the worst parts of the republicans lately.

Yeah Kasz,
I think that while there were elections going on there was enough news about Obama being a muslim as well. Jon Stewart making a joke about Palin saying that she could see Russia from her house was not as biased comparitively.

The party has always been terrible.  Most of the people invited are usually too drunk to notice.

I'd say it already is.

The republicans adopted the democrats wasteful spending, and the democrats adopted the republicans favoring industry leaders.  The only difference is the dems still pretend they care about the poor.

Both parties are more interested in perpetually keeping their jobs and power then they are actually doing anything for the country.