Friday Free-For-All

[lotuslion]

The method-behind-the-madness of the Friday Free-For-All is simple: I provide a quotation, statement, statistic, or piece of news, without any commentary of my own. The readers are free to merrily discuss, debate, deride, or mock in whatever way they see fit -- hopefully it will at least tangentially pertain to the posted item, but hey, it's a free

Comments

[faeshard]

I do not count the Daily Show as real 'news'. This is only because they take events that are already real 'news' and say the things about them that most people (at least the ones I know) are already thinking. To me, this is a form of regurgitation. They do not break new stories, they do not present new facts, any of the actual information they use can be found if you want to look, thus, they're not 'news

[greyraziel]

This is less an intelligent reply than a continuation of Jessi's rant, which I completely agree with.

A RELIABLE SOURCE OF COMEDY?!? I am willing to give Mr. Kohn the benefit of the doubt and assume that he misspoke, because otherwise this phrase doesn't really make sense. But, really, attacking The Daily Show for not being fair and balanced is like attacking SNL'S "Weekend Update" for not being fair and balanced. They're not trying--they're not even PRETENDING (*cough*foxnews*cough)--to be fair and balanced. They're trying to be FUNNY.

As for me, I wouldn't trust Joe Scarborough and Bill O'Reilly as far as I could throw them. And judging from the pictures I've seen, I probably couldn't even pick them up.