Jon Stewart: Fox News Is Either Evil or Stupid

On last night's Daily Show, Jon Stewart reported on a baffling Fox and Friends segment during which Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade discussed Alwaleed bin Talal, one of the financial backers of the so-called Ground Zero Mosque. Except they didn't mention bin Talal by name and didn't mention that he owns the second biggest stake in Fox News. It's just like that time I pretended not to know my dad when he came to pick me up from the mall wearing cutoffs and possible ties to terrorism.

Coverage of the Ground Zero Mosque continues below with a segment from last night's Colbert Report.

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Gretchen Carlson's Job on Fox & Friends Is Pretty Much the Exact Same Thing as Being President of the United States

If anything, it's more difficult and stressful, because she has to sit next to Steve Doocy…

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The Daily Show on Obama's Broken C-SPAN Promise

As you've heard, after promising numerous times on the campaign trail to broadcast Senate health care negotiations on C-SPAN, President Obama is now blocking the network's cameras from the chambers. Of course, this is really in the best interest of C-SPAN, who would be heavily fined by the FCC if they aired all those Senators giving sloppy blowjobs to the insurance companies.

Below, Jon Stewart reports on White House Budget Director and one-time Daily Show guest Peter Orszag's unlikely sex scandal.

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