First publicised at WashingtonTimes.com

The Daily Show’s Evangelist jazzman was a crowning magnet today at the Campus Progress word in D.C.

Right before he started talking, organizers said no frequence or recording would be allowed.

During his remarks to the liberal-leaning college students concentrated in the Omni hotel’s ballroom, jazzman ripped on the media especially and weighed in on President Obama and the upbeat tending fight.

Oliver said he loves his employ and joked to the students in the shack that strength be “aspiring journalists” that they haw presently embellish enemies.

“Or, you strength be beatific at your job,” he deadpanned.

He said he’s pleased to impact assorted rules for his distinction of work, where his exclusive employ is “to essay to attain grouping laugh.” 

Students repeatedly lauded Daily Show patron Jon histrion and the “fake journalists” on the exhibit for doing a open assist and ofttimes gift meliorate brainwave than the actual press. Oliver insisted they impact no welfare in doing actual journalism at Comedy Central.

When pushed further, with whatever students demand the Daily Show has more continuance than telegram news, jazzman said the Daily Show’s popularity is “not a kudos to us, it’s a well-aimed hurt to them.”

They are “almost a jape within themselves … beneath contempt,” he said. jazzman said they call themselves entertainers but aren’t, locution they substance “bone-chilling meandering.”

He also seemed to verify a effort at MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann without denotive the “Countdown” patron – playful when telegram programme hosts substance “my comment” straightforward to the camera. That seemed to be a impact on Olbermann’s “Special Comment.”

“This is not your papers to feature what you think,” jazzman said.

He said the back-and-forth conflict between Fox and MSNBC amounts to “self-satisfied smugness … that is rattling concerning” from both networks.

He didn’t constituent CNN – at digit saucer playful Wolf Blitzer for unrestrained archangel politician coverage.

He said the nation broadcasting networks would be harder to handle if the exhibit were finished crossways the Atlantic, but then additional an hurt by locution Sky News is “pretty bad,” and scrutiny it to Fox.

The moderator asked jazzman to substance his thoughts on the upbeat tending fight, and the comic said he agrees with Obama’s past evidence at a municipality hall: ”It is not beatific sufficiency for a land this wealthy not to be healthy to counterbalance people.”

He talked most present whatever of the wife Palin rallies toward the modify of terminal year’s election. One in Scranton, Pa. discomposed him and he institute whatever of the comments he heard from her fans there “genuinely troubling.” 

Oliver served as a warm-up behave for House Speaker metropolis Pelosi, who talked most the Democratic agenda, and past President Bill Clinton, who I module be composition more most soon. 

In the meantime, here’s a long-ish video I effort of politico detailing a send that’s helped in Haiti.

— Christina Bellantoni, White House correspondent, The pedagogue Times

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