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Jon Stewart Calls Trump a ‘Man-Baby’

May 10, 2016 at 10:09 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 16 Comments

If you’ve missed Jon Stewart during this presidential campaign, his interview with David Axelrod is definitely worth watching.

Filed Under: 2016 Campaign Tagged With: Jon Stewart

Quote of the Day

July 22, 2015 at 10:01 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 29 Comments

“You don’t have that much time to take away Americans’ guns and declare martial law… if you’re going to do that, you better get started”.

— Jon Stewart advising President Obama, who was making his final visit to The Daily Show.

Filed Under: White House Tagged With: Barack Obama, Jon Stewart

Quote of the Day

June 19, 2015 at 7:06 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 8 Comments

“I honestly have nothing other than sadness that once again we have to peer into the abyss of the depraved violence that we do to each other and the nexus of a gaping racial wound that will not heal yet we pretend doesn’t exist. I’m confident though that by acknowledging it — by staring into — we still won’t do jack shit.”

— Jon Stewart, on the shootings of nine people in a Charleston church.

Filed Under: Gun Control Tagged With: Jon Stewart

Jon Stewart Skewers Judith Miller

April 30, 2015 at 8:40 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 35 Comments

It’s not clear why former New York Times reporter Judith Miller decided it would be a good idea to defend her reporting on the Iraq War on the Daily Show.

Here’s how Stewart opened the interview: “My feeling has always been… I believe that you helped the administration take us to, like, the most devastating mistake in foreign policy that we’ve made in, like, 100 years.”

Filed Under: Political Books Tagged With: Iraq, Jon Stewart, Judith Miller

Jon Stewart Stepping Down from The Daily Show

February 10, 2015 at 7:17 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 78 Comments

“Jon Stewart is leaving The Daily Show,” Entertainment Weekly reports.

“Ending months of speculation about his future with the Comedy Central series, Stewart informed his studio audience during Tuesday night’s taping that he is stepping down as host of the show after 16 years.”

Politico: “Stewart, who became the host of ‘The Daily Show’ in 1999, has had an immeasurable influence on American politics and satire.”

Filed Under: Media Buzz Tagged With: Jon Stewart

Jon Stewart Pukes Over Torture Report

December 10, 2014 at 8:12 am EST By Taegan Goddard 2 Comments

Jon Stewart: “It’s funny, I just made this movie about a guy who triumphs over the inhuman conditions in his imprisonment in an authoritarian country, and I don’t think they did half that shit to him.”

Filed Under: National Security Tagged With: Jon Stewart, torture

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goddard-bw-snapshotTaegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.

Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.

Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.

Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.

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