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Frank Rich: Most Trusted Man In News Can’t Be “Outsourced To Comedy Central And Jon Stewart”

That’s why the past week’s debate about whether there could ever again be a father-figure anchor with Cronkite’s everyman looks and sonorous delivery is an escapist parlor game. What matters is content, not style. The real question is this: Ho…

Jon Stewart Talks Cap And Trade, Interviews Energy Secretary Chu

On Tuesday’s Daily Show, Jon Stewart dedicated the program to talking about climate change, and The Waxman-Markey Cap and Trade bill. He immediately got so bored that he fell asleep into a cream pie:

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House Dems To Geithner: Stop Backroom Deals With Wall Street

Now that bailed-out banks are reporting record-breaking profits, the U.S. taxpayer, who bought into these institutions at bottom-barrel prices, could wind up on the winning end of a nice profit. That’s what happens, after all, when you buy low…

White Men Can’t Judge: Stewart Takes On Sotomayor’s Confirmation Hearings (VIDEO)

Jon Stewart managed to make Sonia Sotomayor’s fairly dry confirmation hearings hilarious last night by calling out her questioners on issues of race, self-aggrandizement, and general ridiculousness. The only person who didn’t look like a caric…

Barney Frank On The Daily Show: Don’t Call It Stimulus (VIDEO)

Dealbreaker points us to Barney Frank’s appearance on the Daily Show last night. Frank was in a jovial mood, even at one point invoking the spirit of Henny Youngman.

Frank told Jon Stewart that he’d been instructed to stop referring to the te…