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huffingtonpost.com - 10/28/2009

'Daily Show' Destroys CNN For Fact-Checking 'SNL' Instead Of Their Guests (VIDEO)

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Jon Stewart began his show last night by skewering CNN for fact-checking a "Saturday Night Live" skit in which Fred Armisen (playing Barack Obama) claimed to have done "nothing" since taking office. In this hard-hitting report, CNN found that while many of the president's initiatives have not ...

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RT @johnsalminen: 'Daily Show' Destroys CNN For Fact-Checking 'SNL' Instead Of Their Guests http://bit.ly/dj13k #snl #dailyshow #cnn 29 days ago

LOL! RT @johnsalminen: 'Daily Show' Destroys CNN For Fact-Checking 'SNL' Instead Of Their Guests http://bit.ly/dj13k #snl #dailyshow #cnn 29 days ago

@cnnbrk CNN do more than "Leave it There" http://tinyurl.com/yzva5jk Cover the polls. Cover the facts. #cnnprotest 11/5/2009

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Jon Stewart praises ‘SuperFreak’ author
Grist - the Latest from Grist — ... , and just last week skewered CNN for its failure to do even basic fact-checking of its guests. Unfortunately, in this instance, there was nothing funny about Stewart’s inaccuracy. ...

Contrarian Chic: Why can’t the media tell the difference between an attack on false ‘conventional’ wisdom and an attack on genuine scientific wisdom?
Climate Progress — ... , and just last week skewered CNN for its failure to do even basic fact-checking of its guests. Unfortunately, this time Stewart ended up being just like those he usually mocks — neither funny nor accurate. ...