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Stewart calls Apple “Appholes” over lost iPhone response

An Apple employee lost a prototype for the new iPhone, which is kind of a big deal to them and soon after came the headline/news: Per Apple Request, Police Questioning Gizmodo’s iPhone Scoop. RespondingiIn a segment titled “Appholes”, John Stewart went off (though gently) on Apple for handling the Gizmodo iPhone leak poorly, most notably observing that Microsoft was supposed to be the evil one, but now Apple is busting down doors in Palo Alto while Bill Gates rids the world of mosquitoes. Everything is upside down!

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Commenter Durox on the Daily Show website rebuts:

1. the guy has a case# from the Apple’s support team, he contacted them but they had no idea that a ‘secret iPhone’ was lost, so they decided it was a joke (Apple also said in the begining that it’s not a prototype …) 2. the blogger paid for an iPhone; he took a chance; it might have been a joke, a replica, etc, but he considered the risks and got it. when asked to return it, he sent it back to Apple. the whole thing took days to develop, and that seems to me like a publicity stunt… Jobs’ own secrecy regarding the product, turns out to be the cause why they didn’t get the iPhone back before it made it on the news. if the support team were updated, if Jobs would not have been so paranoid, the phone would have been returned to Apple. IMO it’s like this: you buy a used bike on a garage sale. the guy says he found it on the side of the road.. you give him the money, and take the bike to a ride. someone stops you and demands that he left the bike on the street, and he wants it back. you give it back.. now, what’s going on w/ your money, what’s going on when the police arrives? ;] ps Apple has the argument that the new iPhone is top secret and the competitors might steal its ‘secrets’! come on Jobs, we are in 2010 and the iPhone still doesn’t multitask. it took several upgrades to film, and other expensive jokes like these ;]. don’t give us this BS, with the secrect technology, iPhone’s only thing is its applications. w/o them it simply blows!

and commenter Go Zi An created some buzz on the videos comments with a few along these lines:

But John Gruber actually has a fair and balanced take on this issue, unlike Jon Stewart. Steward [sic] is misrepresenting facts, leaving out important details like the prototype was stolen, and whoever found it never informed anyone at all for 3 weeks, despite knowing the identity of the Apple engineer since he could access his Facebook app on the iPhone prototype. And Gizmodo paid for the prototype, is that even ethical journalism (something Stewart himself always raves about?) Jon Stewart it’s time you actually went to journalism school to learn the basics on reporting facts.

O’Reilly puts the kabosh on the Daily Shows teasing

The Daily Show is pretty honest about what it is, yet thousands of college aged adults are constantly proclaiming what an awesome news source it is. Except it’s not. and Jon Stewart doesn’t even claim it is. It is not news delivered in a funny way. Its fake news. Jokes based on news content. it never claims to be anything else.

Recently a clip from the show went viral allegedly exposing that Fox News has become exactly the type of “whiny liberal” that it used to be against since the network is now praising protesters against the Obama’s health care plan as average Americans rising up to be heard but treated protesters against Bush as whining crazy liberal lunatics.

The truth is that that meme is a big fat lie. I watch Fox News and there was never a running theme of “protesters who protest Bush are crazy, whining liberals” that has switched now to “protesters who protest Obama are patriotic courageous Americans” except for one show and one personality: Sean fkking Hannity. As I’ve pointed out recently on RichWatch, Sean Hannity used to blindly mock Bush’s opponents regardless of context and is now blindly endorsing Obama opponents for purely partisan reasons. It’s mock-worthy and an example of hacktivism, but its one guy at the news channel. Claiming FNC as a whole was anything like that is just a smear to fit a “please, for the love of Christ don’t watch Fox News” narrative.

So is Jon Stewart a liar? He says he’s not, and there’s no reason to doubt him. He’s not a liar, he’s a frigging comedian. It’s only a lie if you present false information in a humorous way with the goal of making a political point. That’s why columnists like Maureen Dowd or Ann Coulter can’t rely on the fact that they use humor in their published works as a shield against criticism: because if you’re trying to make an actual point, you can’t just make shit up. You have to be present the facts and THEN make the jokes. But Stewart doesn’t claim this position. Stewart is not a funny news commentator – he is a fkking comedian who uses content from the news to make jokes. Colbert, I think is a different story because I have never heard him go on record saying that he makes things up and his presentation suggests that his show is in fact meant to be humorous political commentary through satire, sarcasm and farce. But The Daily Show, to its credit, has never denied making shit up for the sake of comedy.

So now TDS mocks Fox for a thing most people who hate Fox suspect the channel probably did and that’s enough to make it true. Never mind the stuff about you blindly accepting a comedian as a credible source of news and turn a blind eye to all those times Jon Stewart publicly admits that his show takes things out of contexts to make them funny — what matters is that someone (anyone) bashed Fox News, and since they’re evil over there, then its true.

Bill O’Reilly, featured in the Daily Show montage of alleged Fox flip flops pointed this out tonight, showing in good humor and respectful tone, that those of you who blindly took TDS’s montage as hilarious ownage were in fact victims of an epic FAIL.

This will no doubt be met with the usual hate and smearing that any good natured response to a freaked out ideologue is met with: O’Reilly will be said to be “whining”, he’ll somehow be an asshole for even mentioning this and the entire response will be disregarded anywhere because O’Reilly didn’t refute every syllable Stewart uttered – therefore they continue trusting the news-comedian over the news-commentator. Why in fact, how can you tell which is which? yuk yuk lolz harr harr omgz.

As O’Reilly said – “some young people actually believe he presents an accurate view of the country on his program… and that is frightening” – especially due to the fact that Stewart himself admits it.

The Daily Show reacts to Britneys VMA performance. from 2000

8 years ago. there was a time. It was a time when America was at peace, Britney Spears was pure as the wind driven snow and a little television program starring Steve Carell, Steven Colbert and some jew named Stewart was skewering the popular culture.

On September 11th 2000 Nancy Walls reported on MTV’s thrice-yearly annual music video awards. And it was good…

Moron says McCain ad is racist for having white girls in it, and purposely injected “phallic symbols” (also known as “buildings of the places Obama was speaking at” – and the guy doesn’t even get THOSE right)

Little commentary needed for this one, except that if you do as he says and “look at it again”, you’ll see he gets BOTH monuments wrong in the ad. It’s not the Washington monument or the leaning tower of Pisa. What a maroon…

I’ve played the “get the fuck out of my yard card” before. Also, the race Genie delivers a joke about “Jew-noses” that the Daily Show audience didn’t catch too.