It’s been three years since Viacom went after YouTube for the Viacom videos being on the site. Today a judge threw out the lawsuit: Today, the court granted our motion for summary judgment in Viacom’s lawsuit with YouTube. This means that the court has decided that YouTube is protected by the safe harbor of the […]
In the ongoing lawsuit Viacom has against Google/YouTube, today we get this interesting revelation: For years, Viacom continuously and secretly uploaded its content to YouTube, even while publicly complaining about its presence there. It hired no fewer than 18 different marketing agencies to upload its content to the site. It deliberately “roughed up” the videos […]
Spending the day yesterday on the Veterans Day Project, I missed out on a lot of great stories (though I believe the cause was worth it). One of the big stories was how Jon Stewart totally eviscerated Sean Hannity for using fake footage to inflate the numbers of last week’s Tea Party protest outside of […]
Richard Cohen has decided it’s time to defend Jim Cramer: What Jon Stewart needs is Jon Stewart. He could use a droll comedian to temper his ferocity and correct him when he’s wrong, as he was about the financial media, particularly CNBC and its excitable analyst Jim Cramer. They didn’t cover up the story of […]
I guess Cramer couldn’t handle his spanking yesterday and ended up pulling a no-show on Morning Joe today: As Michael Calderone notes, yesterday on Twitter, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough wrote that he would have the “exclusive Jim Cramer interview tomorrow morning to discuss tonight’s war with Jon Stewart.” But after the rough night, Scarborough wrote […]
The climax hit last night when Jim Cramer appeared on The Daily Show. Bob has all three parts of the interview up. Be sure to check them out.
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An absolutely devastating video by The Daily Show’s Jason Jones shows what Wasilla is really like: This is what Sarah Palin considers “pro-America” while giving all the larger cities, and their people, a big “fuck you”. I wonder if all small towns want to leave America like Palin and her people? If that’s the case […]
One of my all time favorites in the comedy world has died at the age of 71. He will be greatly missed. Here’s a Daily Show interview he did in 2004:
Matt Taibbi was on the Daily Show the other night and told Stewart of his experiences in John Hagee’s church while he was researching his new book: I wonder if John Hagee has puked out his demon of intolerance?