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Very interesting clips on Stewart's show:
• Megan Kelly, several times presenting the number of 73% of the American people not in favor of healthcare, yet, on Stewart's show, running on the left of the screen, are other polls indicating more people are in favor of healthcare reform. Must be Kelly is only using one poll, Rasmussen. Funny how a clip of her before Obama was elected President has her saying polls aren't really all that important, but now, polls are. Oops!
• Any wonder why some Americans are using the "ram it down our throats" tagline, when 6 contributors on Fox all basically used the same tagline in describing healthcare? If you see something, or hear something often enough on TV or radio, it kinda makes an impression, doesn't it? I think on the walls of Fox News there must be posters with "key phrases" to use when the contributors are talking, so they can repeat them on-air often.
• Sarah Palin, one of Fox's contributors, appearing on Leno's show, saying when in college she studied journalism, and what it is supposed to present to the people: the who, what, when and why...no opinion, just the facts. But then you see her on Fox, saying Obama wants to "ram healthcare down our throats." Not news, just opinion.
Jon Stewart Exposes Fox News 'Balance,' Goes After Sarah Palin And Megyn Kelly (VIDEO)
It looked like Jon Stewart was going for some of his bread-and-butter Sarah Palin jokes on Wednesday night, mocking her appearance on NBC's Tonight Show and tossing in a little ribbing of Jay Leno.
But the quips about a Palin "Fair and Balanced" remark quickly turned into an amusing -- if not scathing -- indictment of Fox News programming, particularly host Megyn Kelly and her new mid-day program, America Live.
Stewart hounded the network about an apparent lack of balance, ranging from the show's promos (showing a clean-cut man in a Jesus t-shirt evidently representing the right, juxtaposed with an "angry nose-ring liberal lady" pointing at his face) to the actual reporting and clips that only showed one-sided opinions from a very homogeneous group. He emphasized that this was one of the few programs held during the network's allotted news time, as opposed to shows that are explicitly opinion.
The Daily Show segment ended with a flourish, showing clips that seemed to indicate an inconsistent approach at Fox News to polling, endorsing or dismissing polls depending on the results.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/04/jon-stewart-fox-news-sarah-palin-megyn-kelly_n_485235.html
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