Jon Stewart made a rare appearance on the Fox News Network as a guest of Chris Wallace’s Fox News Sunday program. Fox, in its attempt to maintain its claim to provide fair and balanced news only did so by posting an unedited video on its website and leaving out out what Jon Stewart calls his “the take away moment of the interview” during the broadcast. Stewart asked Chris Wallace if Fox News considers themselves the ideological equivalent of NBC, a mainstream media broadcast network, to which Wallace responds that mainstream media has a “liberal agenda” and Fox merely reports news from the “other side”.
Stewart later mocked Chris Wallace’s response on his Daily Show program the next day.
“The Other Side? We don’t tell both sides, we tell the other side, the one that is perceived as never being told”. Later, in a humorous vein, Stewart derided Wallace’s response by claiming that Fox is not about its trademark “fair and balanced” news, but about balancing the system. “The system is unbalanced because of the left wing, ” Stewart continues “Hollywood, comedians, the internet, facts – all of them designed to shut down conservatism”
Wallace claims that Stewart has a left bending ideological agenda on his program to which Stewart disagrees. Watching a clip from Stewart’s program, Wallace makes an example of how his program always attacks the right wing by comparing Sarah Palin’s One Nation Bus Tour to a commercial Stewart explains that he was only mocking the technique used in both commercials, in which reporters finish each other’s sentences and that there was nothing political about it. “I am a comedian first and comedy is informed by an ideological background” Stewart replies.
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