I’m just watching last night’s Daily Show, and yet again I’m in awe of the way this programme tears apart the hypocrisies present in the media nowadays.
Jon Stewart destroys Fox News’ midday host Megyn Kelly and her one-sided portrayal of what is supposedly “fair and balanced” news. It was stunning how unfairly the “news” is actually broadcast. Is it really “fair and balanced” to only pick four random members of the public who all (coincidentally!) were against the healthcare bill?
Is it fuck.
There’s a great little montage of talking heads who all use the phrase “cram down the throats” of the American public, in terms of the healthcare bill, and then Stewart just rips apart Fox’s reliance on polls which support its position, whilst handily ignoring those that disagree.
Kelly is particularly in favour, it seems, of quoting poll numbers at those who disagree with her/Fox News. Well, until the final clip, which shows her in October 2008, discussing the latest polls which put Obama well ahead of McCain. Her opinion? To paraphrase, “we shouldn’t trust polls and pollsters anyway.”
The hypocrisy is just mind-blowing, and I don’t see how anyone can not notice it.
