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IT’S been more than eight years since “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart” made its first foray into presidential politics with the presciently named Indecision 2000, and the difference in the show’s approach to its coverage then and now provides a tongue-in-cheek measure of the show’s striking evolution. In 1999, the “Daily Show” correspondent Steve Carell struggled to talk his way off Senator John McCain’s overflow press bus — “a repository for outcasts, misfits and journalistic bottom-feeders” — and onto the actual Straight Talk Express, while at the 2000 Republican Convention Mr. Stewart self-deprecatingly promised exclusive coverage of “all the...

"Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough slammed the "hacks" at "The Daily Show" on Wednesday for only making fun of Republicans and giving a free pass to Democrats. Discussing a July 15 New York Times piece that described how TV comics and talk show hosts are hesitant to make fun of Barack Obama, Scarborough mocked, "I never want to hear anybody from 'The Daily Show' or any of these other shows ever saying again, 'We speak truth to power.' 'Cause you know what they do? They speak truth to Republicans." After admitting that Republicans have made many mistakes over the last...

SPEAKING without a text in front of him, Barack Obama betrays a troubling lack of knowledge on important issues - such as the law and terrorism. In his ABC interview last Monday, for example, Obama attacked the Bush approach on fighting terror. He claimed that, in the case of "the first attack against the World Trade Center, we were able to arrest those responsible, put them on trial. They are currently in US prisons, incapacitated."

Martha Stewart refused entry to the UK By Christopher Hope Home Affairs Editor and Alex Spillius in Washington Last Updated: 2:16AM BST 20/06/2008 Martha Stewart has been refused a visa to Britain because of her criminal convictions for obstructing justice, the Daily Telegraph has learned. Martha Stewart leaves the Federl court during her trial in 2004 The lifestyle guru, convicted four years ago in the US for obstructing justice, was planning to speak at the Royal Academy and to hold meetings with several figures in the fashion and leisure industry, including Jasper Conran, and was due to travel within the...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge says he will hold a former USA Today reporter in contempt if she continues refusing to identify sources for stories about a former Army scientist under scrutiny in the 2001 anthrax attacks. At a hearing Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton said that reporter Toni Locy (LOW-see) must cooperate with Steven J. Hatfill in his lawsuit against the government. Hatfill is suing the Justice Department, saying the agency violated the federal Privacy Act by giving the media information about the FBI's investigation of him. In addition to Locy, the judge is considering whether...

February 2, 2008 -- Might terror-coddling attorney Lynne Stewart get her just deserts after all? It is to be hoped. A three-judge federal appeals panel heard arguments Tuesday from prosecutors seeking a harsher sentence for Stewart, who was given just 28 months in prison in 2006 for smuggling dispatches to and from her terrorist-mastermind client. She could have gotten 30 years. Nevertheless, District Judge John Koeltl decided that Stewart had performed "a public service . . . to the nation" in representing "Blind Sheik" Omar Abdel-Rahman - regardless of any, well . . . overzealousness in his cause.

MAYBROOK, N. Y. - The pilot was killed and two passengers injured in the crash of a single-engine plane in the woods near Stewart International Airport early Wednesday, authorities said. The plane lost contact with controllers before 2 a.m. when it was attempting a second landing at the airport following a failed first approach, FAA spokesman Jim Peters said. State Police said one of the passengers called 911 after the crash. Rescuers found the wreckage hours later. Pilot Brian H. Early of Radnor, Pa., was found dead, police said.

See the video here. Also, see the transcript here. Now for the main story:Jon Stewart Dismantles Chris MathewsIf you have ever bemoaned the turn Matthews -- a former newspaperman -- has taken in recent years, you have to check out what happened on "The Daily Show" on Tuesday night. Matthews called it "the worst interview ever." By Greg Mitchell (October 03, 2007) -- You may find this hard to believe, but there was a time when TV gasbag Chris Matthews was a respectable hard news reporter. He worked in Washington, D.C. for the San Francisco Examiner from 1987 to around...

'The Daily Show' host displays distorted view of the American economy in interview with Alan Greenspan. By Jeff Poor Business & Media Institute 9/19/2007 There’s a reason they call the fake news “fake.” At no other time was it clearer why shows like “The Daily Show” are fake news than when host Jon Stewart interviewed former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan on September 18. Greenspan was on the “The Daily Show” to discuss his new book, “The Age of Turbulence.” However, Stewart was more interested in discussing economic fundamentals and the action of the Federal Reserve cutting interest rates by...

Minuteman Announces Issuance of Preliminary Injunction And Dismissal of Action The Orange County Superior Court has issued a preliminary injunction that orders former Minuteman Project, Inc. advisory board members Marvin Stewart, Deborah Courtney-Peterson and Barbara Coe to stop diverting or spending Minuteman funds. With this much need relief in hand, Minuteman. announces that it has dismissed its action without prejudice to refile the lawsuit if further misconduct occurs. Minuteman Founder and President Jim Gilchrist stated: “I am delighted that rather than spending the next 2 years in litigation and spending hundreds of thousands of dollars of contributions for Attorney fees...

Anybody watching this? A skit showing that Michael J. Fox as Michael P. Keaton wants stem cells from aborted babies to make Back to the Future 4, Condi as a modern day Super Hero, and John F'n Kerry getting the treatment for his "uneducated troops" line.....just curious

October 21, 2006 Lawyer Convicted in Terror Case Lied on the Stand, a Juror Says By JULIA PRESTON He was known as Juror 8, for the jury box chair where he listened silently for more than six months as the convoluted evidence unfolded in the trial of Lynne F. Stewart, the radical defense lawyer accused of aiding Islamic terrorism. The jurors argued behind closed doors in Federal District Court in Manhattan for another month before they finally agreed to convict Ms. Stewart on all five charges she faced for smuggling messages out of prison from her terrorist client, Sheik Omar...

The sentencing of hyper-liberal lawyer Lynne Stewart to 28 months in prison -- federal guidelines suggest 30 years -- defines the Clinton legacy better than the former president's finger-wagging histrionics to re-write history. Ms. Stewart, who's represented radicals and mobsters, was convicted in 2005 of helping imprisoned terrorist Sheik Omar-Abdel Rahman communicate with his followers in the Middle East. The blind Muslim cleric plotted to assassinate Egypt's president and to blow up five New York landmarks. U.S. District Judge John Koeltl rightly concluded her actions constituted "extraordinarily severe criminal conduct" and material support for terrorism that could have caused "lethal...

Which of the following two events of recent days provoked more popular outrage? A. The lenient one-game suspensions decreed for all but one of the University of Miami football players involved in an ugly on-field brawl. B. The lenient 28-month sentence given a lawyer who helped Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, a terrorist serving life in prison for conspiring to blow up New York City landmarks, communicate with a murderous group of jihadists in Egypt. Correct. Severe punishment for those who threaten the image of America's fall sport is deemed far more important than it is for someone who merely threatens...

RIVERSIDE'S TERROR RALLY By CHARLES E.F. MILLARD October 18, 2006 -- In the uproar over Monday's outrageously soft sentence for terror-aiding lawyer Lynne Stewart, Riverside Church seems to be distancing itself from the despicable rally it hosted in her support Sunday. Stewart was convicted by a jury of her peers. The uncontested facts were that she had smuggled messages from convicted terrorist Omar Abdel Rahman ("the blind sheik") to his followers in the Islamic world. Those messages directed his followers in the terror group Gama'a Islamiyya to end their cease-fire with the Egyptian government and begin killing Rahman's enemies. Rahman,...

War On Terror: A lawyer whose crime shows the need to monitor terrorists and their U.S. contacts gets a slap on the wrist from a Clinton-appointed judge for helping the architect of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Three days after 9/11, as the ruins of the World Trade Center still smoldered with thousands entombed in the rubble, President Bush declared at the National Cathedral: "We make no distinction between terrorists and those who knowingly harbor or provide aid and comfort to them." He could have been speaking of Lynne Stewart, attorney for Omar Abdel-Rahman, the "blind sheikh." Rahman was...

Getting Off Easy (Lynne Stewart) By Ben Johnson FrontPageMagazine.com | October 17, 2006 In his address at the National Cathedral three days after 9/11, President Bush enunciated what has come to be known as the Bush Doctrine: “We make no distinction between terrorists and those who knowingly harbor or provide aid to them.” Yesterday, a Clinton-appointed judge nullified those words and hailed a terrorist’s accomplice as an exemplar of “public service, not only to her clients, but to the nation.” A jury of her peers convicted radical leftist lawyer Lynne Stewart of passing fatwas from Omar Abdel Rahman to his...

It was a case of radical chic and the radical sheik. Yesterday in New York, Lynne Stewart, a self-styled "civil rights" attorney whose past clients include the Black Panthers and Weather Underground, was sentenced to 28 months in prison for illegally passing messages between her imprisoned client, Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, and his followers in Egypt's Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya, the terrorist group responsible for killing 62 mostly European and Japanese tourists in Luxor in 1997. Some of those tourists were beheaded; others were disemboweled. The Sheik was also involved in planning terror attacks in New York, for which he is serving a...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York attorney convicted of aiding terrorism by helping an imprisoned Egyptian client smuggle messages to militant followers was sentenced on Monday to 28 months in prison. Lynne Stewart, 67, was convicted in February 2005 of helping her client, Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, to contact the Islamic Group, which the U.S. government lists as a terrorist organization. Prosecutors said messages Stewart passed on for Abdel-Rahman could have incited violence in Egypt. The sheikh was convicted in 1995 of conspiring to attack U.S. targets in a plot prosecutors said included the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Stewart,...

A Staten Island mailman who was a follower of the blind terror sheik tracked down confidential addresses of FBI agents and prosecutors pursuing Al Qaeda, according to court records and federal sources. Ahmed Sattar, described by federal prosecutors as a point man for a major terror group in America, was spotted by one federal agent near his home. The agent moved his family from the area.Sattar also was put on the federal payroll, receiving thousands of dollars to be a paralegal for Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman during his 1995 terror trial, government officials said.Even though federal investigators became suspicious of...

Lynne F. Stewart, the firebrand lawyer known for defending unsavory criminals, now faces the possibility of living out her life like many of them, in maximum-security lockdown in a federal prison. Today, 20 months after she was convicted on terror charges, Ms. Stewart and two co-defendants who were convicted of conspiring with her will be sentenced in Federal District Court in Manhattan. Prosecutors, arguing that Ms. Stewart repeatedly flouted the law to aid the violent designs of an imprisoned terrorist client, have asked Judge John G. Koeltl to condemn her to 30 years in prison. That would be a life...

NEW YORK -- She's already a grandmother of 14, a cancer survivor and a former civil rights lawyer who took on radical clients others considered toxic. Lynne Stewart will soon find out if she will be forced to assume another role -- prison inmate. "I couldn't tell you I'm not stressed," Stewart said about her Monday sentencing in a Manhattan terrorism case. "I'm very concerned." Prosecutors have asked a federal judge to impose a 30-year term for what they described in court papers as Stewart's "extremely dangerous and devious" conduct to help an Egyptian terrorist leader communicate with followers. Stewart,...

Minutemen Project founder Jim Gilchrist was attacked by angry, violent protesters last night who stormed the stage during his speech at Columbia University in New York City, forcing an abrupt end to the event. An African-American member of the Minuteman board who spoke prior to Gilchrist was taunted with the "n-word," according to WND columnist Jerome Corsi. Corsi had been scheduled to follow Gilchrist with a speech of his own, but after university security personnel whisked the Minuteman leader offstage, the New York Young Republican Club meeting was shut down. A video of the chaos at Roone Arledge Auditorium, shot...

Fort Stewart Freedom Walk Sustains Spirit of 9/11By Pat YoungSpecial to American Forces Press Service FORT STEWART, Ga., Sept. 11, 2006 – Soldiers and families of the 3rd Infantry Division, representatives of Fort Stewart, the city of Hinesville and Liberty County, and more than 1,000 other guests displayed their unity at twilight yesterday to observe the fifth anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, with a commemorative Freedom Walk. Soldiers, civilians, emergency responders and volunteers help set up the site for the Sept. 10 Freedom Walk along Fort Stewart, Ga.'s Warriors Walk. Photo by Pat Young  '(Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image...

This is an expansion on debg's summary of Adam Gadahn's Al Qaeda videotape, available for download at http://www.lauramansfield.com/j/nnnnmn-1.rm. debg: He spent a long time saying we are ignorantGadahn did indeed spend a long time calling us "ignorant." After Zawahiri's introduction, he also accused us of "rapturously applause" when Israel wages war, of assenting to our governments' "atrocities in Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere in the Muslim world." He also accuses us of "voicing our approval" of the so-called desecration of the Koran at Gitmo, and of our "yellow press and tele-evangelists insulting the 'Prophet' Muhammad [piss be upon him - my...

Those familiar with Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" - featuring comedian Jon Stewart - will no doubt be familiar with the show's bias against Operation Iraqi Freedom and the efforts of the Bush Administration to combat Islamic terrorism in the Middle East. But even Stewart and company couldn't deny the progress being made in northern Iraq. The 3 Iraqi provinces that make up Iraqi Kurdistan have built a peaceful democracy modeled after Western nations. Not one single Coalition soldier has been killed in Iraqi Kurdistan. No westerners have been kidnapped. And just this past week, Iraqi Kurdistan's regional government passed...

Homemaking diva Martha Stewart will pay about $195,000 and cannot serve as the director of a public company for five years under a settlement announced Monday on civil insider trading charges with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Under the settlement, the founder of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc., a multimedia empire dedicated to stylish living, agreed to make a payment relating to losses the government said she avoided on her sale of ImClone Systems Inc. stock in December 2001. Stewart agreed to pay $45,673, the amount of losses she avoided from her insider trading, plus $12,389 in interest. But the...

The story seems very familiar to people who follow Republican politics, but it is also out of tomorrow’s headlines: Sean Connaughton (R-at large), chairman of the Prince William County Board of Supervisors (about as close as one gets to being a big city mayor in the Old Dominion), has recently been tapped by President Bush to be administrator of the Maritime Administration at the U.S. Department of Transportation. Although Connaughton—a moderate Republican and close ally of House Government Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Davis (R-Va.) has yet to be confirmed by the Senate, Republicans in the county are already making preparations...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Poor Jim Carrey. His movies have raked in nearly $2 billion at box offices, but now a leading entertainment magazine says the comedian's asking price of $25 million a film has become "a bit of a gamble." ADVERTISEMENT In its issue out this week, Entertainment Weekly rates top stars on whether they are worth the money. Among those whose asking prices have become too high are Carrey, Nicole Kidman, Will Ferrell and Eddie Murphy, the magazine said. It added that after years of ever-rising star salaries, the prices for top talent are now coming down because...

SAMI AL-ARIAN ADMITS CONSPIRACY IN PLEA AGREEMENT " There is no conspiracy to support terrorism ."  - Ahmed Bedier, spokesman for Tampa chapter of Council on American Islamic Relations From what I’ve been able to gather, there seems to be enough evidence to prove a web of conspiracy . Let’s have a look and see if that’s true! American Muslim Council (AMC)1. Former Spokesman: Faisal Gill.2. Founder: Abdurahman Muhammad Alamoudi.3. Former Director: Erik Vickers 1. Faisal Gill Former spokesman for the American Muslim Council (AMC) Former director of government affairs for the Islamic Free Market Institute (Islamic Institute) in Washington, D.C.,...

On this date March 22,1978 The Police sign to A&M Records (on the strength of their recorded single Roxanne).

Ode to Hypocrisy By the Comedy Central bigwigs (and Tom Adkins) Once, Comedy Central Was a network that stood tall South Park was unleashed, And man, did they have balls. South park lampooned big shots, and megastars who got fat They said a bunch of swear words Man, we LOVE when they do that! They attacked religion. And politicians, too Heck, they bitch-slapped everyone! In fact, we quite approved. But Suddenly, our braintrust Has our panties tied in knots They tweaked the Scientologists! Those dirty little snots! Sure, we let ‘em have fun. And even throw some slime! But don’t...

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - Here's how the deal works. NASCAR wants establishment money and establishment credibility. NASCAR wants to look like a professional major league, not a motorized division of fake wrestling occasionally rocked by genuine tragedy. When those goals collided during the bumper-rattling, bump-drafting Budweiser Shootout eight days ago, superstar Tony Stewart sounded the alarm. He predicted possible death before the tour left Daytona unless NASCAR got a grip on rogue driving. NASCAR approach backfired The graphic public comments hit the NASCAR trailer like a tax audit. The bosses issued directives, policies, hints and outright threats. In effect, they...

A federal court will soon sentence attorney Lynne Stewart to prison for "providing material support" to terrorists, among related charges.[1] The charges center upon her assistance to Egyptian sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman who, from a federal prison cell in Minnesota, has continued his quest both to install an Islamist government in Egypt and to kill Americans and Jews around the world. Stewart's case is symbolic of a corollary battle in the war against terror and highlights the need not only to counter terrorism but also the ideology of Islamism. Her infatuation with her client's cause evolved into an example of...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21, 2005 – A South Carolina woman who has been sending cookies to servicemembers overseas since 1990 said she's been flooded with e-mails from people wanting to help since she appeared recently on "Martha," the TV show hosted by Martha Stewart. Jeanette Cram, affectionately dubbed "the Cookie Lady," said this surge in support proves that she was successful in giving the message to the American public that the troops need support. She appeared on Stewart's show Dec. 16, lending a helping hand in the kitchen and talking about her campaign to support the troops. She also got a...

In other words, the majority argues in effect that the private, purely intrastate possession of machine guns has a substantial effect on the interstate machine gun market. This theory, if accepted, would go far toward converting Congress's authority to regulate interstate commerce into "a plenary police power." Lopez, --- U.S. at ----, 115 S.Ct. at 1633. If there is any sort of interstate market for a commodity--and I think that it is safe to assume that there is some sort of interstate market for practically everything--then the purely intrastate possession of that item will have an effect on that market,...

She was arraigned before Manhattan federal Judge John Koetl. This is an obvious attempt by the U.S. government to silence dissent, curtail vigorous defense lawyers, and install fear in those who would fight against the U.S. government's racism, seek to help Arabs and Muslims being prosecuted for free speech and defend the rights of all oppressed people

LOS ANGELES -- Martha Stewart said home confinement was tougher than doing time in federal prison. She told Time magazine it was "extremely difficult," especially for "a busy person watching the clock, and knowing other people are watching the clock." Stewart was only allowed out of her house for a limited period. The domestic diva served five months behind bars for lying to authorities about a stock deal and nearly six more months in home confinement. She's been free of her electronic ankle bracelet monitor since Sept. 1

Since mirrors of the video have been dying left and right, I've mirrored both the original Robert Novak bull**** video, as well as the evening's "Daily Show" commentary for your viewing pleasure..... link

The Man Behind the Attack on Guantanamo By Rocco DiPippo FrontPageMagazine.com | June 16, 2005 The general leading the force to free the captive enemy from the U.S. detention center in Guantanamo Bay, and inflict a humiliating defeat on the United States is so-called “civil rights” and “Constitutional” attorney Michael Ratner. It was Ratner who led the way in recruiting elite lawyers to defend the enemy combatants being interrogated at Gitmo. But Ratner is a long-time leader of two pro-Communist and anti-American organizations who have for decades have lent aid and comfort to America's enemies in the Cold War and...

The Supreme Court has now ruled that it was excessive prosecutorial zeal and inadequate jury instruction that destroyed Arthur Andersen in 2002, not the merits of the federal obstruction-of-justice case.... Thus, the excesses of a few corporate swingers led to suspicions that hanky-panky was the ruling ethos in every corporate boardroom. Naderites, Hollywood pundits, Marxist professors and left-wing journals piled on with assurances that they had been right about capitalists all along. [A] Congress never reluctant to make work for fellow lawyers whooped through the Sarbanes-Oxley bill.... The sour public mood has had other effects. Staffers at the Securities and...

Rod Stewart is to become a father, for the seventh time, at the age of 60. The rock star -- best known for songs like "Do You Think I'm Sexy?" -- has confirmed that he and his fiancee Penny Lancaster are expecting a child in early December. Stewart said he felt "blessed" and planned to marry Lancaster in spring 2006. However, the singer still needs to divorce his second wife, Rachel Hunter, who is seeking a share of his fortune. Rumors of the pregnancy circulated last week but the couple was reluctant to confirm it until Lancaster had safely passed...

ORLANDO, Fla. -- A civil trial has started over who and what is to blame for the 1999 Learjet crash that killed pro golfer Payne Stewart and five others. The lawsuit, brought by the families of Stewart and his close friend and agent Robert Fraley, who also died, could result in a jury award worth millions if the plane's manufacturer is found to be at fault. Or testimony could show that a lack of pilot training and plane maintenance caused the Learjet 35 to lose pressure soon after takeoff from Orlando, killing all aboard within minutes. The plane then began...

If there was any doubt that my fellow Democrats with white skin, the notorious white liberal, is the most intolerant creature on the planet, all you have to do is check one of their most popular daily blogs, the Daily Kos, to see how they operate. After I posted the column below, Daily Kos ACTUALLY SHUT DOWN the site and banned me from posting there. Keep in mind, I didn't use profanity. All I did was disagree with their opinion on Air America Radio. Also keep in mind that Daily Kos himself called for a boycott of Time Magazine after...

KATONAH, N.Y. (AP) -- Her middle name is Helen. She likes to spend a lot of time with eggs. And she has no use at all for that clunky black gizmo on her ankle. In the month since Martha Stewart was released from prison, after serving five months for her role in a stock-sale scandal, she has not been shy about sharing. Though she turned down an interview request with The Associated Press, the freed tastemaker has been talking about everything from kielbasa ("Yum," she proclaims) to Tasmania in forums ranging from court papers to Internet chat rooms to her...

SAM WAKSAL Stock tipster in prison. The ImClone insider- trading scandal that landed domestic diva Martha Stewart in prison claimed two more casualties yesterday, including a top doctor at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Martha pal Sam Waksal, the CEO of the biotech company, ratted out his two friends before a grand jury — in return for immunity from further prosecution, according to a federal complaint released yesterday. He is already serving seven years........ Zvi Fuks, head of Sloan-Kettering's radiation oncology department, and Israeli businesswoman Sabina Ben-Yehuda were busted on charges of securities fraud for allegedly dumping their ImClone stock...

I finally broke down today and wrote Fox a nasty email. I can not take another heart sobbing story about a convicted excon and a child molesting pervert. Has Fox turned into the National Enquirer of cable? How many ways can you tell a story and how many times does their loyal listeners have to put up with worthless entertainment news? For the first time in months I found myself having to switch channels so as not to start sobbing all over again about poor Martha and Michael. The world is going to hell in a hand basket and our...

WASHINGTON : US lifestyle guru Martha Stewart was set to leave jail Friday after a five-month sentence for a stock scandal that boosted her career rather than dooming it. Stewart's time in jail officially ends Sunday, but the federal prisons bureau can release prisoners on a Friday if their sentences end over the weekend, said US prisons spokeswoman Carla Wilson. Supporters eagerly awaited her release from the Alderson minimum security prison in West Virginia, which inmates call "Camp Cupcake." The news media were also outside the prison in force. Stewart's reputation has made a massive public rebound during her time...

March 02, 2005 The Left's Struggle With Freedom In The Middle-East James Taranto of Best of the Web noted an incredible exchange Jon Stewart, who's adored on the left, and former Clinton aide Nancy Soderberg. The reason I call in an "incredible exchange" is not just because Stewart seems be grasping and acknowledging the shockwave of freedom that Bush got started in Iraq, but because Soderberg is so forthright in admitting that she hopes that freedom fails in these countries because it'll be good for the Democrats politically (Emphasis mine)... "Stewart: This book--it talks about the superpower myth of the...