So by now it should be obvious to most of you that I love the Daily Show and the Colbert Report. This is less because I'm a liberal-minded social thinker and more because I appreciate how both shows use smart humor, many times to expose the hypocrisy of cable news.
Tuesday night on TDS, Jon walked the audience through a series of clips where pundits on the main news networks (but mostly Fox News) were comparing catastrophic events like the oil spill in the Gulf and the recent miner deaths, which occurred under Obama, to certain negative occurrences under Bush. These included Hurricane Katrina and Iraq.
FOX NEWS HYPOCRISY ALERT
All Fox News ever did during Bush's years was defend his place in the events that I mentioned earlier. Now they are vilifying Obama for the oil spill and healthcare reform by comparing them to the Bush events that they had always defended! I see - now they're bad, now that Bush is gone and can't get his feelings hurt. They've (Fox) basically just contradicted their entire organizational philosophy in the span of a few bird-brained pundits. New President, new philosophy. I guess that makes sense. Wait, no it doesn't.
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