Jon Stewart took the mainstream media to task over their abysmal coverage of President Barack Obama’s second inauguration on a recent episode of The Daily Show . In his segment, Stewart threw all the major networks under the bus for their bizarre coverage, with MSNBC, Fox News , and CNN being his main targets.
In his continuing critique of the press (a few days ago, The Daily Show ‘s analysis served as a satirical jab at the media’s obsession with Michelle Obama’s bangs), Stewart lashed out at MSNBC, Fox News, and CNN for their hyper-partisan coverage of the second inauguration.
Stewart highlighted the major differences between the networks, pointing out MSNBC’ s report of a “massive crowd in Washington today” while Fox branded it a “much smaller crowd than four years ago.” CNN , on the other hand, seemed obsessed with Michelle Obama’s dress.
He then shifted to coverage of Obama’s speech, lauded as “historical” and “poetic” by Lawrence O’Donnell’s panel on MSNBC , while Fox had Pat Buchanan taking issue with Obama’s inclusion of Stonewall as a significant civil rights event .
“What is remarkable to me is how even when articulating his most full-throated liberal ideals how different actual Barack Obama is from the bizarro boogieman empty chair Obama who lives only in the minds of his opponents.”
Playing a montage of Obama’s most conservative critics damning the president for his war on guns and religion, Stewart then played a clip show of every mention of God during the inaugural (he was brought up a lot ) interspersed with booming cannons.
Here’s the clip, via Mediaite :
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