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*** Play along, know your stuff, don't pull a Betsy McCaughey and overtly skew the facts, and ''[[The Daily Show]]'' is a platform from which you can talk pretty directly to people who would never listen to you otherwise. It's probably the only show in which disagreement with the host is encouraged and celebrated. Jon rarely wins conclusively when his "opponent" genuinely knows what they're on about; they get equal talking times, they make their points and listen carefully to the other, and then Jon breaks the mood with a stupid joke and the band plays them out. It's glorious.

* August 20, 2009: McCaughey, a think tank-ish person who was against various provisions in a proposed health care reform bill, the interview being [http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-august-20-2009/betsy-mccaughey-pt--1 here.] At the beginning of the interview, she walks out onstage with a binder holding half the proposed bill in untranslated legalese, and states that it says doctors must provide mandatory end-of-life care (i.e. providing counsel designed to eschew health care in favor of dying peacefully). She even comes equipped with the page numbers that the language is on. Jon ''immediately'' rips into her, saying that the word "mandatory" isn't in the bill at all, stating that it doesn't require doctors to force people into choosing end-of-life care over preventative measures, and then demanding that she look up the language in the bill. It takes a commercial break for her to find it, and then he immediately rips apart her interpretation as ill-advised and just plain wrong. It's definitely worth seeing just for the embarrassment she is forced to suffer through as she's thoroughly denounced ''by a comedian''.

** Even better in the [http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-august-20-2009/exclusive---betsy-mccaughey-extended-interview-pt--1 extended version]:

{{quote|'''Stewart''': You have no evidence of this!

* June 9, 2010: Tying into the long-running narrative against the idiocy the national media can display, we get [http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-june-9-2010/press-you-re-stuck this lambasting.] Instead of confronting the serious issues ("What's the line between opinion, and opinion journalism? When does America's unwavering defense of Israel begin to compromise our unwavering defense of free speech? Does our media demonstrate a casual bias against the Arab world and the suffering of Palestinians? These are the hard questions reporters must be asking themselves in the wake of Thomas' departure."), cue numerous clips of news organizations talking not about those questions...[[Ignored Epiphany|but who gets Helen Thomas' seat in the front row]].

{{quote|'''Stewart''': It's fun to see politicians and the people we count on to hold them accountable...super-soaking each other. Fighting over who gets to sit shotgun in the White House briefing room. Jockeying for an invitation to barbecues. [[Armor-Piercing Question|Are you journalists, or are you rushing a sorority?]] What I'm saying is this — if the public wants reporters to start holding politicians accountable for their actions, [[Insane Troll Logic|then I guess the public just needs to really start throwing better parties, or having better perks]].}}

* July 7, 2010: When the babbling freakshow that is ''Fox and Friends'' decided to take shots at President Obama for once again reaching out to the Muslim world, and others at Fox News decided to pile on to the anti-Muslim sentiment, Jon once again took them to task for their rampant hypocrisy, [http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-july-7-2010/wish-you-weren-t-here and once again, t'was awesome.]

* July 28, 2010: [http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-july-28-2010/gay-reichs Jason Jones questioning a homophobe's sexuality] after the latter argued the Nazis persecuted the gays to hide their sexuality. Also, listing all the countries who allow gays in the military, which is ''a lot''.

 

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