Daily Show on the Folksy, Factless News Channels. An end of the year recap of some of Jon Stewart and Co.‘s devastating critiques of Fox News, CNN and MSNBC, from “leave it there” to tea party march madness.

“If you were going to talk about whether the earth is flat, and 99 percent of scientists are saying it’s round, and 1 percent are saying it’s flat, you wouldn’t bring on the 1 percent guy,” he said. “That viewpoint is factually inaccurate and they shouldn’t bring him on just to give the illusion of balance.” - Segment Producer Patrick King

“When both sides are represented, there needs to be more fact-checking and deeper questioning: “A senator or governor will be on the news and will say something completely biased, and newscasters won’t call them on it. They should be checking these people. Instead they don’t want to alienate them and they let them say whatever they want.” - writer Elliott Kalan

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