Jon Stewart Slams FOX for Ignoring the National Equality March
On last night's Daily Show, Jon Stewart discussed FOX News' devotion of 3:42 to the National Equality March and 8:16 to an empty sidewalk in New Jersey following the "Obama song" protest.
Says Stewart: "Gay people aren't vampires. They show up on camera."
Watch, AFTER THE JUMP...
And was that Towleroad's Corey Johnson there for a second? Kudos, Corey.
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Posted Oct. 14,2009 at 10:47 AM EST by Andy Towle in Jon Stewart, National Equality March, News | Permalink
Amazing that Fox News wouldn't cover the NEM, but I'm not all too surprised. Thanks Jon Stewart for calling them out on this!
As an FYI, I've composed a video montage for the National Equality March that you can see on their website and here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIgoM8t85PY
Posted by: Sean Chapin | Oct 14, 2009 11:07:46 AM
I <3 Jon Stewart.
Posted by: DR | Oct 14, 2009 11:30:06 AM
I have no problem with FOX not covering the NEM. I do have a problem with CNN and others shameful coverage of the March. Tey are muh worse in my eyes. Take a look at Stewart ripping them a new one on his Monday show.
Btw, the LGBT and MSM media make it look like it was all white folk who worked on the march. Don't worry, there was plenty of colored folk and Transgendered people they didn't interview. C'est la vie, one battle at a time.
http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.hulu.com%252Fwatch%252F101718%252Fthe-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-mon-oct-12-2009&h=c90d06c2b051d8c2d86d46fae8d09828&ref=mf
Posted by: Derek Washington | Oct 14, 2009 12:03:54 PM
Great segment, but the numbers are off. The Equality march was two to three times as large as the Tea Party march. That's hundreds of thousands of marchers - not tens of thousands.
Posted by: scot | Oct 14, 2009 12:06:05 PM
I love JS too. But I'm really pissed that CNN gave the March short shrift.
Posted by: David R. | Oct 14, 2009 12:09:09 PM
Um, I was watching Fox News over the weekend and they had correspondents there and they talked about it near the top of the hour several times. One of the organizers was on O'Reilly last week. I don't know which Fox News Stewart was watching, but it was covered.
Posted by: BC | Oct 14, 2009 12:21:58 PM
I love Stewart, but wasn't the awful Wayne Besen on O'Reilly, too, talking all about the March?
Posted by: JT | Oct 14, 2009 12:28:01 PM
@ BC
And you think that was enough coverage?
Get the fuck outta here wit dat bullshit.
Posted by: Rocky | Oct 14, 2009 1:17:42 PM
love this man!
Posted by: Astro | Oct 14, 2009 1:24:16 PM
Yes, FOX mentioned the march, how could they not when tens to hundreds of thousands descended on the Capitol??
But the difference is they promoted the tea parties and had special programming for it and then CRITICIZED other media sources for their lack of coverage and now they have done the same thing with the equality march, so therefore that makes them hypocrites.
Posted by: Brian in Texas | Oct 14, 2009 1:52:27 PM
Fox News' Political Commentators had their shows at the Tea Parties. That is very different than the regular news reporting. I did not hear anyone on Fox News once ever call the March on Washington anything disparaging at all. They were respectful in their reporting. And actually, O'Reilly and Glenn Beck COMMENDED the marchers b/c they were executing their First Amendment rights. Compare that to the comments made by "Journalists" and commentators on MSNBC about the Tea Parties. There is a HUGE difference. Now had Fox News called the March on Washington "astroturf" or "insane" or called the people at the march "terrorists" then I would too be upset. Try to find a clip of a Fox News on-air person cutting down this weekend's march. It didn't happen. But there are dozens and dozens of Olbermann and Maddow being immature and childish about the Tea Parties.
Posted by: BC | Oct 14, 2009 3:24:31 PM
LOL, how can you compare the Tea Parties and the Equality March? I did not attend the Equality March, but as far as I know there weren't people there holding hateful and racist signs.
Just go to youtube and search for "9/12 project"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6j0t_ECqfU
Posted by: Brian in Texas | Oct 14, 2009 3:36:16 PM
Fox + conservatives = a big reason to get Hemorrhoid cream!
Posted by: CKNJ | Oct 14, 2009 5:50:51 PM
The White House has dismissed the teabaggers as Right Wing fringe and the Equality Marchers as Left Wing fringe.
Posted by: JT | Oct 14, 2009 6:02:50 PM
The White House denied the claim about the bloggers being left wing fringe.
Posted by: Brian in Texas | Oct 14, 2009 6:28:40 PM
LOL- that was brilliant.
Posted by: jaragon | Oct 14, 2009 7:09:28 PM