Tworld News: Week of July 8, 2011

Another week of news, another thousands of years worth of tweets. We've handled the filtering:

Thank goodness for the Twitter Town Hall — officially integrating Twitter should relieve the political landscape of its overabundance of grammatically correct sentences and fully-developed thoughts.

Would it kill you people to stop being such innocent toddlers about this verdict?

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Tags: Barack Obama, Debt, Michele Bachmann, Nancy Grace, Rupert Murdoch, Town Hall, Tworld News

Jon Stewart on the War (Between CNN and Fox News) in Libya

Warning: Someone of the footage shown here may not by suitable for children… with discerning taste in media coverage.

Coverage continues after the jump.

The Daily Show airs Monday through Thursday at 11/10c.

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Tags: CNN, Fox, Japan, Jason Jones, John Oliver, Libya, Muammar Qaddafi, Nancy Grace, Natural Disasters, Nuclear, Science & Technology

The Top 15 Quotes From The Daily Show and The Colbert Report's Live Election Night Specials

Anything can happen on live TV, and Jon and Stephen's Midterm Teapartyganza was no different. Who will ever forget Aasif Mandvi's nude report from Washington D.C.? Or John Oliver and Jason Jones repeatedly shouting "f**k the FCC" while suspended from that ceiling fan? Or Samantha Bee straight up murdering that dude?

None of that happened, of course, but what did happen were the following quotes about last night's Democratic mega-massacre. You should read them until your brain explodes from being amused.

"John Boehner will be the new Speaker of the House. It is the highest elected office ever to be reached by an Orange-American." – Olivia Munn

14 more quotes after the jump…

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Tags: Aasif Mandvi, Alaska, David Vitter, Jason Jones, Joe Manchin, John Boehner, John Oliver, Jon Stewart, Kentucky, Midterms, Nancy Grace, Olivia Munn, Rand Paul, Russ Feingold, Samantha Bee, Senate, Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report, The Daily Show, West Virginia

Jon Stewart Pits Rudy Giuliani Against Rudy Giuliani

On last night's Daily Show, Jon Stewart covered the media brouhaha surrounding the upcoming trial of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, revealing Nancy Grace as the cause of boner cancer and counteracting the arguments of Rudy Giuliani with those of none other than Rudy Giuliani from 2006. Both Giulianis made such strong points, I think we need a third opinion. Maybe from 1997 cross-dressing Giuliani or 1999 paying-for-his-mistresses-security-detail-with-misappropriated-city-funds Giuliani.

The Daily Show airs Monday through Thursday at 11pm / 10c.

Tags: 9/11, Geraldo Rivera, Jon Stewart, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, Nancy Grace, Rudy Giuliani, Samantha Bee, The Daily Show, Video