Jon Stewart hits Fox for ignoring gay rights march after aggressively promoting 9/12 March.
Jon Stewart hits Fox for ignoring gay rights march after aggressively promoting 9/12 March.
During the tea party protests and the more recent 9/12 march, Fox News argued that it was justified in covering them incessantly because the network doesn’t “pick and choose these rallies and protests” — it covers them all. At the same time, it slammed other networks for not giving enough coverage to the right-wing rallies. But as Jon Stewart noted on The Daily Show last night, Fox ignored the weekend’s National Equality March, whose turnout was comparable to the 9/12 March. “You didn’t even send your own camera crew?” exclaimed Stewart. “You have a Washington bureau! Tell them to go to the window and point the camera down!” Watch it:
Stewart also pointed out that Fox was more than happy to get out the tv cameras and an on-air reporter to cover an empty sidewalk where there had apparently been a protest about students singing a pro-Obama song. (HT: Andrew Sullivan and Raw Story)
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Yeah, FOX, send a producer out to rev up that march.
October 14th, 2009 at 1:17 pmWell, you know, they don’t pick AND choose… they just Pick OR Choose which rallies they are going to cover.
October 14th, 2009 at 1:18 pmFox doesn’t “report” the news, they “create it”. That’s why the media villain in James Bond was modeled after Rupert Murdoch! ;)
October 14th, 2009 at 1:18 pmDear Faux Snooze;
Your silence on the Gay rights march is defeaning.
Please turn up the volume.
Signed,
October 14th, 2009 at 1:19 pmProud to be EVERYTHING the Rightwingnuts hate
Part of me wonders why we even get upset at Fox anymore about this kind of stuff. It’s par for the course.
I will never, ever watch the channel. But 30% of America can’t turn it off. I’m not going to change my mind about the joke of a ‘news’ station it is, and that 30% isn’t going to stop believing every bit of GOP propaganda they see on it.
Sooooo…. yea. Fox News is a joke. What’s new?
October 14th, 2009 at 1:21 pmFox cover’s every rally and march in Washington because they are a responsible news organization….. and if you really believe that I’ve got a bridge in Brooklyn to sell ya.
Fox cover’s only things they are interested in, not the news. True conservative hypocrisy at work.
October 14th, 2009 at 1:21 pmLOLOL!
They don’t call them Faux Noise for nothin’!
October 14th, 2009 at 1:22 pmMSNBC carried both. Why is Fox afraid to be “fair and balanced”? ;)
October 14th, 2009 at 1:24 pmAnd MSM wonders why young people turn to Stewart and Colbert for news? All Summer we have seen ‘Birthers’, ‘Tea-Baggers’ and nut jobs screaming at citizens and MSM dares to call them ‘Mainstream’. Now we had an event that wasn’t CORPORATE sponsered and MSM barely gives it a mention? It reminds me when MSM would cover the Iraq War protesters (Briefly) and call some of the protesters ‘Hecklers’. Unreal.
October 14th, 2009 at 1:25 pmThank you Jon! Love that graphic in the background.
It’s so great the way TDS makes my laugh about things that normally piss me off.
October 14th, 2009 at 1:27 pmI guess the VP at Fox is going to have to send out another memo reminding them that they’re journalists. (I chuckled out loud at typing Fox and journalists in the same sentence.)
October 14th, 2009 at 1:28 pmP.D. says:
And MSM wonders why young people turn to Stewart and Colbert for news? All Summer we have seen ‘Birthers’, ‘Tea-Baggers’ and nut jobs screaming
And to think that comedians were worried that with President Obama in the WH there’d be less to make fun of!
October 14th, 2009 at 1:28 pmFox isn’t the problem. Its the zombies that watch it and believe that its news. I’ve seen harder hitting news from E!
October 14th, 2009 at 1:32 pmHey, ya oughta ease up on theFlatulent Noise Channel. When you’re resource limited and ya gotta have every available video cam ready to record daBillo’s, Glenda’s or Blimpo’s every fart and wheez, ya might not have anyone to cover something so inconsequential as a very large parade of Gays and Friends. Yanno? (snark)
October 14th, 2009 at 1:33 pmWhile the fake teabagger protest had 70k people, I believe Ed Show said there were over 200K at gay rights march.
October 14th, 2009 at 1:35 pmIt wasn’t just FNC that largely ignored the protests. Full equality remains elusive precisely because the corporations running the cable news outlets deem it a non-issue. Fox is blatant about their disregard…but it’s not just them.
How in the hell did 75,000 protestors marching on DC go largely unnoticed? Shameful..
October 14th, 2009 at 1:38 pmI think the only way that tea-party goers will even remotely believe that number, GoL, is if we provide pictures showing the gay rights’ march dwarfing the 9/12 march.
October 14th, 2009 at 1:38 pmStewart and Colbert do a better job of covering the news that Fox. At least the satire is based in fact. Fox should be embarrassed that the Comedy Network even mocks them.
October 14th, 2009 at 1:39 pmI believe Ed Show said there were over 200K at gay rights march.
Probably under 100,000… Right-wingers were saying 25,000, Organizers were saying 150,000… everyone else I’ve seen was hovering around 60,000-70,000, so about the same as the ‘historic’ tea party nonsense.
The Gay Rights march in 1987 had 500,000 however. More than 5x as many as at the ‘historic’ 9/12 ridiculousness…
October 14th, 2009 at 1:39 pmAccording to a population analyst at the prestigious Bob Jones University, there were only 78 people at the gay rights march.
October 14th, 2009 at 1:49 pmOT, sorry, but you have to watch Michael Steele (aka: cow on the tracks, aka: dumb fu(ker) get hit (sort of) by a train!
Michael Steele needs to know just like anyone else that trains do not stop for cows!
October 14th, 2009 at 1:52 pmDr. Hussein Matt says:
According to a population analyst at the prestigious Bob Jones University, there were only 78 people at the gay rights march.
Well, if you start with the premise that only heterosexuals are real people, this number might not be too far off.
October 14th, 2009 at 1:54 pmFUX NOISE hypocritical??
Shocker.
October 14th, 2009 at 2:00 pmPurple State says:
I think the only way that tea-party goers will even remotely believe that number, GoL, is if we provide pictures showing the gay rights’ march dwarfing the 9/12 march.
That won’t work either: Since they faked pics of their event to pump up their atendance numbers they won’t ever believe that someone else didn’t do that too.
That’s why they don’t trust the media, because they know that FOX lies to them.
That’s why they don’t trust governemt, they know that republicans can’t govern.
That’s why they think sex is icky and gross, because they’re a bunch of public restroom trolling perverts…
October 14th, 2009 at 2:02 pmFoxSnooze got slammed this week by both the White House and Jon Stewart?
That’s a sure sign that the Apocalyse is nigh!
October 14th, 2009 at 2:03 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Beethoven Rules says:
Ahh, so FOX News DID cover the rally?
I wondered… ’cause otherwise they’d just be COLOSSAL hypocrites, you know?
Could you link to that video, please?
Thanks!
October 14th, 2009 at 2:09 pmYeah, John Stewart is no authority on anything.
Jon Stewart, on the other hand…
October 14th, 2009 at 2:11 pmI think it’s a tragedy that we need The Daily Show to call out the media on their continual failings. CNN was running tea bagger stories without a mention,(at least in the reports I saw) of who was responsible for these protests. In fact some outlets picked up on the,”grassroots movement,” Republican talking point as if it were factual. Lou Dobbs is trying to out-crazy Glenn Beck. Left wing media bias is nothing short of a myth. I didn’t see any left wing media bias during the run-up to the Iraq war did you? They gave the Bush administration a free ride for eight years!
October 14th, 2009 at 2:14 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
I mean, Jon Stewart has to be an authority. After all…like him, Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh are entertainers, and everything they say is taken as “truth” by the GOP. If Jon’s an entertainer, then he must be preaching it too!
And he IS.
October 14th, 2009 at 2:17 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
http://www.theonion.com/content/opinion/if_god_had_wanted_me_to_be
Fox News is just like God made them.
October 14th, 2009 at 2:18 pm
Beethoven Rules says:
Ok, I’ll bite. Who is Jon Stewart and what makes him an authority on anything?
October 14th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
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He’s the host and executive producer of The Daily Show, a satirical news parody drawing two million viewers a night that has won the Emmy Awards for Outstanding Variety, Music, or Comedy series AND Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Program every year since 2003, won the Peabody award in 2000 and 2004, won four awards from the Television Critics Association awards, and in 2005 received the Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language. He’s also executive producer of the multiple Emmy-winning and Peabody Award-winning The Colbert Report.
So you might consider him an authority on producing a successful TV show.
October 14th, 2009 at 2:22 pmale the problem with you is in your twisted mind you see two groups: people and gays. when actually there are just people.
October 14th, 2009 at 2:24 pmAlejandro says:
Sorry, I was “there” at both of them since I live so close.
October 14th, 2009 at 2:16 pm
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And you counted them all, did you?
Being “there” doesn’t make you an expert in estimating crowd size, just FYI.
October 14th, 2009 at 2:25 pmThere’s nothing special about Fox with respect to this.
Then they don’t get to claim that they cover every rally, do they?
What do you call that?
An inaccurate statement?
A Lie?
A self-serving misdirection?
All of the above?
October 14th, 2009 at 2:27 pmAnd Alejandro…were you there or “there”? I don’t quite understand the need for the quotation marks.
Either you were out and about in DC to see all the different venues at which parts of both rallies were held…or, like an erstwhile governor, you are the authority of record on this matter because of mere proximity.
And I’ll bet you can see New Jersey from your house. You betcha!
October 14th, 2009 at 2:32 pmIt happens more often than you might think.
October 14th, 2009 at 2:35 pmbelaccifer lacca says:
Probably under 100,000… Right-wingers were saying 25,000, Organizers were saying 150,000… everyone else I’ve seen was hovering around 60,000-70,000
October 14th, 2009 at 1:39 pm
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So according to Francis Galton’s theory of the collective wisdom of crowds, the correct number of protestors was 100,833.333333333
October 14th, 2009 at 2:36 pmBeethoven Rules says:
Who is John (sic) Stewart and what makes him an authority on anything?
Neither this post nor any of the subsequent comments posited Jon Stewart as an authority. You used the word.
TP was enjoying the fact that Mr. Stewart so adroitly pointed out the matter of Fox contradicting themselves. Again.
He has never put himself forth as some purveyor of truth as is the wont of some folks in the media realm.
So, lighten up, enjoy the ride…oh, chill the fcuk out.
October 14th, 2009 at 2:38 pmI attended neither rally, but I live 3 blocks from the mall right by the Capitol.
The tea bag thing tied up everything. Nothing but tons of fat white people walking around with dumb signs and flags tying everything up, taking up every parking spot, and basically making my day difficult. Then they stuck around the next day to go sight seeing.
The gay march was nothing of the sort. Sure there were people, but no one was in my way. I could park and go to the store and get lunch. I could not during the tea bag action.
October 14th, 2009 at 2:38 pmSo according to Francis Galton’s theory of the collective wisdom of crowds, the correct number of protestors was 100,833.333333333
Now let’s get those villagers to guess Michael Steele’s weight! Or would the mean be too mean?
October 14th, 2009 at 2:39 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Alejandro says:
So the Gay Rights protesters were more considerate and car-pooled?
Seems like that’s just as ‘accurate’ an assessment based on those ‘facts.’
October 14th, 2009 at 2:41 pmAlejandro says:
The tea bag thing tied up everything.
Do you recall the press that event got – how most of the folks attending the tea bag rally were unprepared for the parking situation – or (shudder) how to use public transportation? I would be willing to bet that the folks attending this weekends rally were a wee bit more prepared for managing their way around the city – and not intruding on the life and neighborhoods of the residents.
Considerate of them, don’t you think?
October 14th, 2009 at 2:42 pmBelaccifer – you beat me to it.
October 14th, 2009 at 2:44 pmpoor al, in his desperate attempt to defend the GOP Propaganda Network, he stepped in it once again
it must suck to be so ignorant
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No, they probably mostly already lived in DC or the metro area.
I’m talking also about the people WALKING around.
Huge piles of flesh were flowing like rivers through the streets and across them, tying up traffic.
This did not happen during the gay march.
October 14th, 2009 at 2:48 pmIt’s not every day that 1 million people protest Washington over spending and their immense failures while in power.
Yeah! In fact, that STILL hasn’t happened!
October 14th, 2009 at 2:49 pmOK – this is perhaps offensive, but by Alejandro’s own comment, we are informed that the tea baggers were:
Nothing but tons of fat white people
So, one could theorize that it might take 100,000 folks at the National Equality March to take up the same visual field space as 50,000 to 75,000 tea baggers.
It’s a thought.
October 14th, 2009 at 2:49 pmBeethoven Rules says:
Oh, you got nothing?
Okay… thanks.
October 14th, 2009 at 2:51 pmGay Pride Parade does not equal the National Equality March.
In fact, one of the comments I’ve heard from most of my friends who attended this weekend was that is WAS a refreshing change from the too-stereotypical media image of the scantily clad gays-on-a-Pride-float.
This was about rights and equality. This was not about making a public spectacle just for its own sake.
That’s the daily job of Faux Snooze.
October 14th, 2009 at 2:53 pmYou must be talking about some other “al” since I couldn’t care less about fudge news.
But you all are trying to make it sound like the gay march was some huge deal when it wasn’t.
But then you try to make it sound like the tea bag party was not a big deal, even though there were more people there. (It also wasn’t a big deal, it just pissed me off because of the inconvenience to me that weekend.)
You’re doing exactly what FNC is doing. Playing up a rally that you agree with and playing down a rally that you disagree with.
You are the same.
October 14th, 2009 at 2:54 pmAlejandro says:
“Huge piles of flesh were flowing like rivers through the streets and across them, tying up traffic.”
That’s kind of how I saw it too, Alejandro… less of a march, more of a blob…
October 14th, 2009 at 2:54 pmBut you all are trying to make it sound like the gay march was some huge deal when it wasn’t.
No, Jon Stewart is pointing out Fox’s hypocrisy for NOT covering it at all while at the same time claiming to cover EVERYTHING and chastising other networks for not covering the tea-baggers enough… get it?
October 14th, 2009 at 2:56 pmYou are the same.
When did I claim to give a crap about every rally equally?
October 14th, 2009 at 2:57 pmI don’t care about tea-baggers, I do care about equality…
FOX said they covered EVERYTHING… FOX lied.
Ooh, look! The Vote-Downer Troll has arrived.
Lurky Lurky, I smell Turkey…
October 14th, 2009 at 2:57 pmAlejandro says:
“…I could not during the tea bag action….”
Had your hands full?
October 14th, 2009 at 2:57 pmnobody care about the fat white people who don’t know nuthin’
October 14th, 2009 at 3:16 pmI am sooooo sick of Fox news!!! I just want tp puke when I hear the no lip hannity..nothing but a bunch of hate people.
October 14th, 2009 at 3:28 pmThe people at the gay rights rally were better dressed, more behaved, and overall more personable than the teabaggers. Let’s face it, teabaggers are mostly fat white people who are crazy. How much worse could any crowd be?
October 14th, 2009 at 3:30 pmlol..
I just wrote about this!
http://theworldofhowey.wordpress.com/2009/10/12/now-thats-a-march/
October 14th, 2009 at 3:35 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Since “Alejandro” is the crowd estimation expert who lives blocks from the epicenter…why did he have to drive and park? Also please discuss the teabagger zealots had 24/7 promotion thanks to faux noise. The equality rally was barely mentioned on any news outlet until the day before and the day after. With the differences in promotion….it’s interesting that folks who are more adept at crowd estimates said the equality march was “in the tens of thousands”……about equal to the zeaalot teabagger hater march. You “Alejandro” are basically full of fox crap.
October 14th, 2009 at 4:02 pmOh yea “Alejandro” the fox noise 24/7 promotion had been going on for the past year. You tr0lls are so easy to spot. Why don’t you just say “some of my best friends are gay”…
October 14th, 2009 at 4:04 pmconservative guy says:
Who the hell wants to watch a bunch of gays march.
I do. I have been to the local gay parade and it is far more entertaining than the teabag parties. The people at the gay parade are nicer, happier and more intelligent.
October 14th, 2009 at 4:06 pmconservative guy says:
Who the hell wants to watch a bunch of gays march.
Larry Craig?
October 14th, 2009 at 4:39 pmZing, Tracy!
Care to comment on Fox’s lies?
October 14th, 2009 at 4:43 pmTracy-1 says:
Which ones?
Good question!
We’ll start with this one… the network doesn’t “pick and choose these rallies and protests”
October 14th, 2009 at 4:49 pmTracy-1 says:
Ahh, so they don’t ‘pick and choose’ but they only cover the ’special’ ones?
Got it.
Do you ever listen to yourself?
Jeebuz…
October 14th, 2009 at 5:08 pmI mean if it just another protest with the same people protesting the same things viewers get rather bored rather quickly.
So those networks Fox was complaining about were right to not devote more coverage to the tea parties?
I mean, if its just the same people protesting the same things, viewers get bored, right?
October 14th, 2009 at 5:15 pmAlejandro says:
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I attended neither rally, but I live 3 blocks from the mall right by the Capitol.
Yeah, and I lived two blocks from the White House and about 4 from the Lincoln Memorial (George Washington University). You are aware the Mall is about a mile or so long, and that there’s infinitely more to it than just the Capitol? Apparently not.
But I guess if you didn’t attend, then no you wouldn’t really know who was there and who wasn’t. Not unless you have some sort of unique eyesight that lets you see beyond buildings as well as for miles around. But I highly doubt it.
October 14th, 2009 at 5:15 pmP.S.
Also, why then do they say they cover every protest?
Why not say what you said?
October 14th, 2009 at 5:16 pmTracy-1 says:
BTW Fox did cover it…but not enough for your liking?
With camera’s from ABC?
How is that covering it?
October 14th, 2009 at 5:17 pmAlso, the other networks did cover the 9/12 rally… but not enough for FOX’s liking?
You see where this is going?
October 14th, 2009 at 5:18 pmAs if just about every news organization doesn’t use pieces from the AP to cover a story?
Fox doesn’t have cameras in Washington?
October 14th, 2009 at 5:21 pmTracy-1 says:
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If the tea parties were something as mundane as the gay rights protests then no…they weren’t.
Dude. TV networks that advertise themselves as NEWS networks don’t get to decide what’s more mundane: gay rights or teabaggers. THEY ARE BOTH NEWS.
And wow to your complete anti-homosexual bias there, Tracy. Seriously? Your argument is that the teabaggers are more interesting than the gay rights activists? For your clarification, that’s an opinion - something which FOX News excels at, and the reasoning behind their lack of coverage of a news piece that had equal weight as their precious 9/12 March. They don’t know the difference between fact and fiction either.
And funny how I’m willing to bet a ton of people disagree with you.
October 14th, 2009 at 5:29 pmAnd seriously, an empty sidewalk is more interesting than a gay rights protest? On what planet? I can tell you it’s not Earth, unless we’re talking about FoxEarth.
October 14th, 2009 at 5:34 pmWhen was the last “tea party”. That dumb ass premise was less than a flash in the pan…
October 14th, 2009 at 5:37 pmconservative guy is a pussy….
October 14th, 2009 at 5:38 pmMore like the WAY they were covering them.
So?
Hey, this is FUN!
October 14th, 2009 at 5:49 pmTracy-1 says:
#71
“I do. I have been to the local gay parade and it is far more entertaining than the teabag parties. The people at the gay parade are nicer, happier and more intelligent.”
To make that claim you have to have attended both. Did you?
Yes, but they were inadvertent. The gay parade in Chicago is in a mixed area and I was going to a baby-naming (Jewish baptism?) when I was forced to wait to cross the main street. The teabaggers were in the Loop and located near my office.
October 14th, 2009 at 5:56 pmTracy-1 says:
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More like the WAY they were covering them. It was very obvious the way idiots like Susan Roesgen of CNN put the bias on full display.
I’m pretty sure the 9/12 protesters spoke for themselves. Particularly with their abundant racist signs.
But anyhoo…..I’m debating about whether your claim has merit, Tracy. CNN gave a biased view of the 9/12 March, hm?
Well, considering FOX organized it, held it, and publicized it, I’m more willing to bet it’s FOX’s version that was biased.
October 14th, 2009 at 6:03 pmThat’s funny because he did give me the warmth and compassion to be accepting of gays. Are you trying to say that God makes mistakes?
October 14th, 2009 at 6:20 pmTracy-1 says:
“The teabaggers were in the Loop and located near my office.”
Again did you actually interact, talk, with any of the Tea Party protesters?….or did you just have to get to where you needed to go?
No, I did not talk to them because I have high standards. They reminded me of the Iranian protesters in the late 1970’s. Every day they would chant for hours “Death to the Shah, Death to Carter.” Eventually, you become immune and don’t listen.
October 14th, 2009 at 6:35 pmTracy-1 says:
You probably didn’t have enough intellectual capacity,….
Flattery will get you nowhere.
October 14th, 2009 at 7:33 pmIt would have been interesting to contrast the levels of civic awareness between the Teabaggers and the Gay Rights marchers. Yea, man I got a copy of the “U.S.S. Constitution,” and another commented, “Thank God for Glenn Beck.” I only recall a single Teabagger that had his head screwed on straight.
October 14th, 2009 at 8:50 pmTracy-1 says:
I am willing to bet two tons of people do agree.
Considering the Tea Party interest is less than 20% of the population, I’ll take you on, Tracy.
As to the rest of your “refutations”? I’m not bothering with. TP has already covered them (such as the obvious racist overtones of the 9/12 March), and the rest make no sense (such as your “gay rights parades that equal the strength of the 9/12 March – particularly after a big deal even at FOX was made about Obama’s assertion he’s not giving up on DADA – ” isn’t interesting enough to cover, particularly since FOX thought an empty sidewalk *was*, not to mention their assertion they cover “all events like these”).
October 15th, 2009 at 12:48 amTracy-1 says:
Every protest has their extremists as we have all seen with the anti-war protest that occured while Bush was in office.
Then we have the tea baggers which are “universally” extremist and insane – like you Tracist! ;)
October 15th, 2009 at 2:52 amTracy-1 says:
Every protest has their extremists as we have all seen with the anti-war protest that occured while Bush was in office.
You mean the people that Bush pushed into animal pens and required loyalty oaths to get in the same building? LOL! Yeah, that’s “exactly” the same as the herd of fat uncultured hateful “animals” you belong to! LOL! ;)
October 15th, 2009 at 2:54 amLibertyhandbookofSTUPID
One million???? HA HA. That was funny. So the question is are you a liar or are you really stupid enough that you are repeating that bit of ignorant propaganda as IF it were true? Oh my you really are stupid and brainwashed
October 15th, 2009 at 6:49 amI’m not spending much time on a dead thread anymore, so I won’t be doing research:
Methinks you need to learn that if the sky is blue and robin’s eggs are blue, you still can’t say the sky is a robin’s egg.
Not to mention the A) not a well known “fact” and B) the way the question was worded to give a certain outcome.
October 15th, 2009 at 4:21 pmDammit. I hadn’t meant to come back here, but this *just* occurred to me:
Also, Tracy? If your argument is that Fox was right to give the 9/12 March more attention than the equal-in-strength Gay Rights Parade because “gay rights are old news”, then I’m gonna point out to you the “people agree the government is spending too much money” is ALSO “old news.”
So either way, you still fail in your argument(s). Epically.
October 15th, 2009 at 6:03 pmFox News completely ignores the gay rights march, but sends a camera crew and reporter to an empty sidewalk where someone allegedly protested. gögüs estetigi
October 21st, 2009 at 4:48 am